Overview

ZenCraft reworks vanilla Minecraft into a calmer, more relaxed experience. The goal isn't to add new content, but to strip away the tension of survival so you can build, explore, and create without constant interruption.

The world still runs on Normal difficulty, and mobs still spawn from spawners as usual — so dungeons, mob farms, and spawner-based builds all continue to work exactly like vanilla. This is what sets ZenCraft apart from just playing on Peaceful: you keep real gameplay (hunger, combat when you want it, spawner farms, loot) without the constant ambient pressure of mobs spawning everywhere around you at night.

On top of these gameplay changes, ZenCraft is built on a strong performance and quality-of-life foundation, so the game runs smoothly and feels good to play even with the changes in place.

Mod list by category

Gameplay & difficulty

Mods that directly shape ZenCraft's peaceful philosophy.

Easy Mob Spawn Control — fine-tunes and reduces hostile mob spawn rates
Difficulty Lock — locks the world's difficulty setting on Normal
LetMeDespawn — allows unwanted mobs/items to despawn more freely
Phantoms in the End — relocates phantom spawns away from the Overworld
Tax Free Levels — removes the XP-cost penalty on anvil repairs/renames
NetherPortalFix — fixes vanilla Nether portal linking issues

Recipe lookup & inventory

Just Enough Items (JEI) — full replacement recipe and item browser
Hidden Recipe Book — hides the now-redundant vanilla recipe book UI
Mouse Tweaks — faster inventory sorting and item transfer
Shulker Box Tooltip — preview shulker box contents on hover
Searchables — adds search bars to more in-game menus

Performance & optimization

Sodium — core rendering engine overhaul
Sodium Extra — additional Sodium settings and tweaks
Reese's Sodium Options — expanded/reorganized Sodium settings menu
Lithium — general game-logic optimization
FerriteCore — reduces memory usage
Alternate Current — optimized redstone engine
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine — faster chunk loading/saving
ScalableLux — optimized light engine
Structurify — optimizes structure generation checks
EntityCulling — skips rendering entities that aren't visible
ImmediatelyFast — optimizes immediate-mode rendering
Dynamic FPS — reduces resource usage when the game is unfocused
Iris — shader support, built with performance in mind

Visuals & immersion

Entity Model Features — expands what resource packs can do with entity models
Entity Texture Features — expands what resource packs can do with entity textures
Continuity — connected textures and emissive rendering support
Skyboxify — custom skybox support
LambDynamicLights — dynamic light sources (held torches, glowstone, etc.)
Zoomify — adds a smooth zoom (spyglass-style) keybind

Quality of life

AppleSkin — shows detailed food/hunger/saturation info
Clumps — combines dropped XP orbs to reduce lag and clutter
Controlling — adds search to the controls menu
Debugify — fixes miscellaneous long-standing vanilla bugs
No Chat Reports — removes chat report telemetry
Packet Fixer — fixes various networking edge cases
Smooth Scrolling — smooths out menu and inventory scrolling
Resourcify — improves resource pack management/downloading
Crash Assistant — provides clearer crash diagnostics
Main Menu Credits — adds a credits screen to the main menu
Mod Menu — in-game mod list and configuration hub

Libraries & frameworks

Required by other mods in the pack; no direct gameplay effect on their own.

Fabric API
Fabric Language Kotlin
Cloth Config v26.2
YetAnotherConfigLib
Placeholder API
Konkrete
Balm
Collective

ZenCraft — Minecraft, minus the stress.

ZenCraft - Peace of Mind