i once again had too much free time, and now you have to face the consequences. This is a list of all tweak mods everyone should know.
First of all, what is a Tweak Mod? Honestly: I have no idea. I didn't find any kind of "official definition", which is a good thing, because now i can use and define the term myself. A Tweak Mod is a Mod that changes Minecraft in any way, but does not add any Items/Blocks. You will notice that, according to this definition, some Mods on my list aren't even Tweak Mods, but you get what kind of mods i will present here.
I will structure this using the following Categories:
Useful Tools: basically anything that doesn't fit into one of the other categories.
Graphics and Performance: kind of self-explanatory. Mostly Client-Sided.
Game Mechanics: New Recipes and, well, Game Mechanics. Nailed it.
Overlays: Anything that adds Overlays.
World Generation: Why do i even explain this stuff? Btw, there will be no BoP.
Add-Ons: Any Add-On to non-Tweak Mods.
Now that we got this, let's get started!
1. Useful Tools
MouseTweaks: A Mod that improves the dragging mechanics in your Inventory and Crafting Grid. You better check it's description, it's quite complicated.
Inventory Tweaks: A well-known mod that stands true to its name. Praised for its Chest and Inventory sorting function.
ClientTweaks: All of BlayTheNinth's Minecraft Tweaks bundeld in one Mod.
StimmedCow: Allows you to switch between conflicting Recipes.
UniDict: Aims to unify everything related to the Ore Dictionary. So you don't have to mess with 3 types of Copper again.
CraftingTweaks: Play with your Items in the Crafting Grid: Cycle, Balance etc., all with some simple buttons.
AromaBackup: Creates Backups in configurable Intervals - an absolute must-have mod. There is no reason why you wouldn't want this.
Trash Slot: Adds a Trash Slot to your Inventory. Kinda Terraria-inspired.
Not Enough Items (NEI) and Just Enough Items (JEI): I hope i don't need to explain this. Basically a Dictionary for all possible Crafting Recipes. JEI is the successor of NEI and has become the standart for the latest versions.
Optifine: Major Performance Boost, Various graphics improvements and the famous zoom feature. Zooooooooooom.
Fastcraft: Removes Lag Spikes and speeds up world loading. Also available as Bukkit Plug-In.
Betterfps: Improves Minecraft Logarithms to boost your FPS. All these 3 mods are fully compatible with each other (while using Betterfps, disable Fast Math in Optifine's Performance Settings).
BetterFoliage: Tiny but oh-so-great graphic Improvements, while draining almost no performance at all.
ItemPhysics and Realistic Item Drops: Makes Items fall more realistic when you drop them. Again, almost no performance required. Realistic Item Drops is the Successor of the discontinued ItemPhysics.
3. Game Mechanics
KleeSlabs: Ever been mad while trying to build with slabs? This mod makes it possible to destroy slabs that are placed on top of each other one by one.
Fast Leaf Decay: Makes Leafs disappear faster and replants Saplings.
Gravestone Mod: Stores your Items on Death. There are lots of alternatives to this mod, e.g. the popular OpenBlocks.
VeinMiner: Mining made fast! Mine all blocks of a specific Material by holding you VeinMiner Key. You could call it the universal usable brother of the Tree Chopper mods.
NetherPortalFix: Fixes the common Nether Portal bug, where you warped back to an entirely wrong portal. Boom, Blay strikes again.
4. Overlays
JustEnoughTooltips: A JEI Add-On that displays Recipes in an Overlay, without any need to open a GUI.
ArmorStatusHUD: Displays the durability of your armor and currently selected Item. Works with Jetpack fuel, too.
Waila, Wawla and The One Probe: Provide Information about whatever you are currently looking at. While Waila and Wawla provide their Overlay "for free", The One Probe introduced its probe as a craftable Item (configurable).
Waila Harvestability: Adds Harvestability information to Waila. Nothing big, but very useful.
JourneyMap: The biggest and most popular Minimap Mod. Other alternatives are the older Voxelmap and the very vanilla-ish Xaero's Minimap.
Streams: Adds naturally generating, flowing Water. Still in Beta state, but totally worth it.
Ruins: A mod that generates Structures from Patterns you can define yourself. While it was originally made for modpack devs, the pattern presets that come with it are more than satisfying for the average modded player.
6. Add-Ons
Thaumcraft Node Tracker: Saves the location of every Node you ever scanned, along with all the node's stats. You shall never run out of aspects!
Thaumcraft Inventory Scanning: This Mod makes the Thaumometer usable inside of any Inventory. Great for scanning Chests and ME-Systems.
And that's my list! I bet that i missed a couple of mods, so be sure to tell me your favorites, and i will add them to the post eventually. I hope you are happy with some of these. Have a nice day!
Hey everyone,
i once again had too much free time, and now you have to face the consequences. This is a list of all tweak mods everyone should know.
First of all, what is a Tweak Mod? Honestly: I have no idea. I didn't find any kind of "official definition", which is a good thing, because now i can use and define the term myself. A Tweak Mod is a Mod that changes Minecraft in any way, but does not add any Items/Blocks. You will notice that, according to this definition, some Mods on my list aren't even Tweak Mods, but you get what kind of mods i will present here.
I will structure this using the following Categories:
Now that we got this, let's get started!
1. Useful Tools
2. Graphics and Performance
3. Game Mechanics
4. Overlays
5. World Generation
6. Add-Ons
And that's my list! I bet that i missed a couple of mods, so be sure to tell me your favorites, and i will add them to the post eventually. I hope you are happy with some of these. Have a nice day!