CurseForge Datapacks
Browse CurseForge datapacks compatible with your Minecraft server worlds
Filter by category
Keep Head Data
Keep Head Data is a Minecraft datapack for Java Edition servers running Minecraft 1.21 and later. It preserves the lore, item_name, and custom_data components attached to player heads when those heads are placed as blocks and mined again. This is especially useful for decorative collections, custom maps, roleplay builds, and server economies where head metadata carries meaning or functionality.The datapack focuses on this single, practical correction and does not alter the appearance or normal use of heads. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for any Minecraft server that relies on personalized player heads and wants their information to survive everyday building and storage.
Jetpack craft
Jetpack craft is a simple Minecraft datapack for Java Edition that adds a functional, craftable jetpack without requiring a mod. It lets players take to the skies and offers a fresh way to explore caves, bases, and distant terrain while fitting naturally into survival gameplay.Compatible with versions from 1.19 through 1.21.3 according to its listed releases, it works in solo play and on a Minecraft server. With BoxToPlay, this lightweight addition brings practical, enjoyable aerial movement to your server experience without changing the game’s core identity.
Lodestone Recipe Backport
Lodestone Recipe Backport is a Minecraft Java datapack that changes the Lodestone crafting recipe in Minecraft 1.20.1. Instead of consuming a Netherite Ingot, the recipe uses an Iron Ingot, making this valuable navigation block much more accessible during survival gameplay. The pack focuses on one clear, vanilla friendly adjustment, without adding new blocks, commands, or progression systems.For a Minecraft server, this change encourages practical exploration and makes linked compasses easier to use before players reach advanced Netherite resources. We at BoxToPlay consider it a simple utility choice for survival worlds and modpacks that want a more approachable Lodestone recipe while preserving the original item’s function.
Revivalix
Revivalix reshapes death on a Java Edition Minecraft server by making it a serious, lasting event. Instead of returning normally after a fatal mistake, the deceased remains unable to rejoin the adventure until another player intervenes. This creates a tense survival experience where every expedition, battle, and rescue matters.Reviving a teammate requires a demanding recipe and may involve deliberately cruel alternatives, turning cooperation into a difficult strategic choice. The datapack is tagged for cursed game mechanics, utility, adventure, and magic, with some releases using a required resource pack for presentation. At BoxToPlay, we recommend Revivalix for groups seeking a challenging Minecraft server with meaningful teamwork and high stakes.
Remove Deep Dark Cave Biome
Remove Deep Dark Cave Biome is a Minecraft Java datapack that prevents the Deep Dark cave biome from generating in newly created worlds. It leaves the rest of world generation intact, making it useful for players who prefer underground exploration without sculk, Warden encounters, or the atmosphere associated with this biome. Unlike broader alternatives, it focuses only on Deep Dark removal and does not disable Pillager structures. The pack is listed for Minecraft 1.21 and 1.21.1, though compatibility with other world generation changes may be limited. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for a calmer Minecraft server survival experience.
![Remove Lava Chicken [Data Pack]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/thumbnails/1331/747/256/256/638865614798689884.png)
FarMoreFood
FarMoreFood is a Minecraft datapack for Java Edition that expands the game’s food system with more than 80 additional food items. It works alongside a resource pack to give these creations their own appearances, bringing greater variety to survival, creative projects, and themed gameplay.Designed for Minecraft versions 1.19.3 through 1.20.4, the pack runs without traditional mods and can enrich a Minecraft server with a wider selection of items. At BoxToPlay, we see it as a simple way to make gathering, roleplay, and food focused builds more enjoyable.
Immersive Bards
Immersive Bards is a Java Edition datapack addon for the Immersive Melodies mod, transforming instruments into tools for group support. While playing, a musician grants Strength and Regeneration to nearby players within 10 blocks, making musical performances useful during exploration, dungeon runs, and combat on a multiplayer Minecraft server.The effect also reaches owned mobs, including modded companions. Owned undead receive Instant Health with improved healing, while instrument carrying hostile mobs can strengthen selected vanilla allies around them. Creepers are excluded from these effects. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for servers seeking a playful support mechanic that gives music a genuine gameplay purpose.
Create: Numismatics Recipes
This Minecraft datapack expands Create: Numismatics by adding crafting recipes for its currency items, including spurs, bevels, sprockets, coins, and other monetary components. It fills the gap left by the original add on, which does not provide standard recipes for these valuables.Recipes use resources and components from the Create mod, with each stage progressing toward higher value items while also allowing lower tier materials to be recovered. Three resource options are available, zinc, copper, or gold, helping server owners shape their preferred economy. We recommend it for any Minecraft server focused on automation, trade, and industrial progression with BoxToPlay.
Chaos Roulette
Chaos Roulette is a Minecraft datapack that transforms ordinary survival into a constantly changing challenge. Every 30 seconds, the system selects a random chaotic but safe event and applies it to every player in the world, keeping the surprise shared across the entire Minecraft server experience. Effects can disrupt routines, create funny situations, or force players to react quickly, without turning the feature into a lethal punishment.Designed for multiplayer sessions, it adds variety to exploration, building, and survival while remaining easy to enjoy alongside vanilla gameplay. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for communities seeking a livelier and more unpredictable adventure.
Dragon Egg Craft
Dragon Egg Craft is a Minecraft Java datapack that adds a special crafting recipe for duplicating the rare Ender Dragon egg. It gives survival players and server administrators a practical way to obtain additional eggs for decoration, themed builds, trophies, or custom gameplay.The recipe produces two dragon eggs from one dragon egg, four iron ingots, two gold ingots, and two diamonds. This simple utility can enrich a Minecraft server, although repeated use may reduce the rarity and challenge associated with this unique item. Our BoxToPlay experience makes this content easy to include in a server setup.
ZTools
ZTools is a Java Edition Minecraft datapack that expands survival with a varied collection of custom items, weapons, tools, recipes, and enchantments. It adds practical options such as the Lumberjack Axe for felling connected logs, talismans that improve mining speed or movement, a Radar Compass that reveals nearby entities, and a Warp Stone for short forward teleports.Combat and progression also gain new twists through the Scythe, Ender Blade, explosive ammunition, enhanced crafting recipes, and special enchantments including Explosive, Knowledge, Gluing, and Singularity. Recipes are automatically unlocked in the recipe book, making ZTools easy to use on a Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for players seeking useful, playful additions without replacing the vanilla feel.
Ty's Recipe Addon
Ty’s Recipe Addon is a Minecraft datapack that expands vanilla survival with additional crafting and smelting recipes. Designed for Minecraft 1.20 versions, it introduces practical and unusual ways to obtain items that are normally rare, restricted, or unavailable through standard recipes.The pack includes recipes for spawn eggs, player and mob heads, an Elytra, End Portal Frames, Light Blocks, Sculk Sensors, Bundles, Enchanted Golden Apples, Enderstone, and more. It also adds conversions such as smelting Rotten Flesh into Beef or an Ender Eye into an Ender Pearl. On a Minecraft server, our BoxToPlay experience makes these gameplay enhancements easy to enjoy in survival.
🐤Cluckin' CHICKS🐔
Cluckin’ CHICKS is a Java Edition datapack that gives chickens more personality and variety. It introduces biome based variants such as wild chickens in jungles, ravens in dark forests and pale gardens, plus cluckshroom chickens in mushroom fields. Ducks and turkeys also join the farmyard, while a compatible resource pack supplies the visual changes and decorative tails.The datapack adds matching custom eggs for several variants and turns eggs into useful fried egg food. Fried eggs cook slightly faster, restore three nutrition points and can be eaten quickly, making chicken farms more valuable on a survival Minecraft server. Our BoxToPlay experience makes this content easy to enjoy in one click.
Ars Nouveau x Tensura: Reincarnated Compatibility
This Minecraft datapack connects Ars Nouveau, Ars Elemental, and Tensura: Reincarnated on Minecraft Java Edition 1.19.2. Designed for magic focused modpacks and a demanding Minecraft server experience, it adds Tensura progression values to Ars Nouveau equipment, while giving several magical creatures EP, skills, and resistances.The Wilden Chimera becomes a powerful boss linked to hero awakening and boss kill requirements. Wilden creatures also receive special drops, while the Chimera gains a dedicated loot table with crystals, elemental essence, and monster leather. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for players seeking deeper progression and better balance between both magic systems.
Better Faster Furnaces
Better Faster Furnaces is a Minecraft datapack that gives the furnace family clearer roles and a stronger sense of progression. Campfires and smokers become the main options for cooking food, while furnaces focus on selected materials such as wood and charcoal. The blast furnace gains many recipes previously limited to the standard furnace, including blocks, bricks, dyes, and raw ore blocks, while improving outputs from smelted metal equipment.With extra recipes such as rotten flesh into leather, this utility focused datapack adds variety without straying too far from vanilla gameplay. It is a practical way to enrich a Minecraft server, and our BoxToPlay experience makes enjoying this progression easy.
Nordic's Craftable Music Discs
Nordic’s Craftable Music Discs is a lightweight Minecraft datapack that adds crafting recipes for every vanilla music disc. Instead of relying on rare loot, structure exploration, or special mob drops, players can create the record they want and bring music to their base whenever they choose.It is a practical addition for a survival focused Minecraft server, especially when players want to decorate communal areas, relax with familiar tracks, or make parrots dance. The pack preserves vanilla content while making discs more accessible. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for straightforward gameplay improvements that add convenience without changing Minecraft’s visual style.
Brown Dye Recipe
Brown Dye Recipe is a lightweight Minecraft datapack that adds one practical crafting recipe: combine red dye, yellow dye, and blue dye to create brown dye. It offers a simple alternative to relying on cocoa beans, making brown dye easier to obtain in worlds where jungle exploration is inconvenient, including Skyblock maps and large biome survival.Its focused design leaves the rest of gameplay unchanged, while making colored building, decoration, leather armor customization, and item design more accessible. On our BoxToPlay Minecraft server, this small quality of life addition fits naturally into survival and multiplayer progression, especially for players who want reliable access to every basic color.
Craftable Heads
Craftable Heads is a Minecraft Java datapack that adds simple crafting recipes for mob heads and player heads, making collectible skulls easier to obtain during survival gameplay. It expands decorative options without requiring a mod or plugin, and works well for trophies, themed interiors, adventure maps, and custom builds.On a Minecraft server, the datapack gives players a practical way to personalize bases, mark achievements, or create visual clues for map challenges. Its lightweight design keeps the vanilla experience intact while adding useful progression and creative freedom. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for builders and mapmakers who want more head displays with minimal gameplay disruption.
Remove Ore Generation
Remove Ore Generation is a lightweight Minecraft datapack for Java Edition 1.21.1 that changes ore generation settings by reducing targeted spawn amounts to zero. It removes natural ore generation from vanilla Minecraft and supports Immersive Engineering, Iron’s Spellbooks, Create, Create: Propulsion, and Oritech. Immersive Engineering ores are treated differently, remaining limited to the building height limit.Designed for an alternative progression system, it suits a modded Minecraft server where resources come from custom recipes, machines, or another progression path. The pack leaves unrelated mod generation untouched, while conflicts with other datapacks or mods can restore some ores. BoxToPlay makes this content easy to use in a curated server experience.
Peaceful Enhancers
Peaceful Enhancers is a Minecraft data pack for Java Edition servers running Minecraft 1.21.4 through 1.21.5. It makes peaceful survival more complete without bringing hostile mobs back. Several normally unavailable resources can appear in chests, while recipes provide selected essentials such as ender pearls, rotten flesh, slimeballs, magma cream, blaze rods, ghast tears, spider eyes, and nautilus shells.The pack also offers a practical alternative for sticky pistons by allowing cobwebs in their crafting recipe. Exploration, trading, and progression stay accessible while preserving a relaxed playstyle. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for any Minecraft server focused on building, cooperation, and comfortable survival.
Bat Membrane
Bat Membrane is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that changes how players obtain phantom membrane while removing one of the game’s most disruptive night threats. Phantoms are disabled, so sleeping is no longer required to avoid aerial attacks during long building or exploration sessions.Bats become a useful alternative source, dropping phantom membrane when defeated. The datapack also adds the “Ol Betsy” advancement for killing two bats with one arrow. Designed for singleplayer worlds and server Minecraft environments, it offers a simple gameplay adjustment that our BoxToPlay team recommends for calmer survival adventures without removing access to Elytra repairs and related recipes.
Kill Shrink
Kill Shrink adds a playful progression mechanic to a Minecraft server. Each time you kill a mob, your character becomes slightly smaller, gradually changing movement, visibility, and the way you approach survival. The effect turns ordinary combat into a constant risk, since continued hunting can leave you tiny.Golden apples restore your size little by little, while enchanted golden apples trigger a much stronger growth effect because they are rarer. The datapack is designed to work with the Pehkui mod, which handles player scaling, and supports Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.21, and 1.21.1. BoxToPlay makes this unusual challenge easy to enjoy on your server.
Ready to get started?
Create your Minecraft server and install datapacks into the world of your choice with one click.
Create my server