CurseForge Datapacks
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Player Locator Settings
Player Locator Settings is a Java Edition datapack that gives each player more control over the locator waypoint on a Minecraft server. Through a dedicated Player Locator button in the pause menu, users can adjust how their marker appears and how far it can transmit. Designed for multiplayer, the datapack lets players customise transmission range, waypoint style, and colour without changing the server’s wider gameplay rules. It supports Minecraft 1.21.6 to 1.21.10 and works with Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and Quilt environments. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for communities seeking clearer navigation and more flexible player visibility.
Ventura Recipes
Ventura Recipes is a utility focused Minecraft datapack that makes survival smoother without changing its familiar style. Its highlight is the Omnitool, a versatile item combining axe, pickaxe, and hoe functions, letting players strip wood, create dirt paths, till farmland, and scrape copper with less hotbar clutter. The pack also adds a wide range of quality of life recipes for easier storage, sensible item conversion, renewable resources, and greater crafting flexibility. Recursive stonecutter recipes and slab to block crafting are especially useful for builders. Our BoxToPlay Minecraft server experience benefits from these convenient improvements, while the companion Ventura Assets resource pack supplies the required item textures.
Craftable Sponge
Craftable Sponge is a lightweight Minecraft datapack for Java Edition that adds a shaped recipe for the sponge block, an item normally obtained through ocean monument exploration or elder guardian encounters. The recipe uses four yellow dye, four white wool, and one bucket to create one sponge, giving survival players a practical alternative without removing the value of underwater adventures. Its simple design suits technical builds, underwater bases, monument clearing, and large construction projects that require reliable water removal. It works on a multiplayer Minecraft server, making resource access more convenient for shared worlds. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for teams seeking a small, balanced gameplay improvement.
Daily Boss X The Man From The Fog
Daily Boss X The Man From The Fog is a Minecraft datapack that connects the Daily Boss system with the horror content of The Man From The Fog. It enables enemies and bosses from that mod to enter the daily rotation, turning regular Minecraft server sessions into unpredictable survival challenges. Each encounter can preserve the original creatures’ eerie abilities, frightening mechanics, and distinctive rewards, adding suspense to routine gameplay while expanding the available boss roster. Designed for adventure, fantasy, and utility, this compatibility datapack is a strong choice for players who want darker, more demanding progression on our BoxToPlay Minecraft server.
![CW Recipe Fix (for Steampunk [LPS])](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/thumbnails/1212/552/256/256/638790543793136350.png)
Sculk Vial
Sculk Vial is a Minecraft Java datapack that adds a practical way to protect and manage experience on a Minecraft server. Its custom vial can store up to 30 experience levels, allowing adventurers to secure valuable progress before exploring dangerous areas, fighting bosses, or attempting risky builds. Players can deposit experience into the vial and retrieve it when needed, creating a portable reserve for enchanting, repairing gear, or recovering after defeat. Crafted with echo shards, this lightweight datapack is designed for server side use and does not require a resource pack in its current form. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for survival servers seeking useful utility without changing Minecraft’s core gameplay.
Name Tag Craft
Name Tag Craft is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that adds a simple survival recipe for name tags in versions before 26.1. Combine one paper with one iron, gold, or copper nugget in any crafting arrangement to create a name tag, making it easier to identify pets, villagers, and other valuable mobs without relying on fishing, trading, or structure loot. This lightweight gameplay improvement fits naturally into a vanilla style Minecraft server and is especially useful for multiplayer worlds focused on animal collections and personal bases. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for older versions, while Minecraft 26.1 already includes the same crafting feature by default.
ExtraMegastonesXL-Example
ExtraMegastonesXL Example is a compact companion datapack and resource pack for ExtraMegastonesXL, created to demonstrate how custom Pixelmon Mega Evolutions can be added. The example introduces Mega Bronzong, linking its evolution to the item extramegastonesxl:megastone_1. Its datapack updates the Pokémon species data, while the resource pack supplies Mega Bronzong’s texture, recolors the megastone, and changes its displayed name to Bronzonite. It also serves as a practical template for creators building new content for a Minecraft server. BoxToPlay presents it as a useful starting point for expanding Pixelmon gameplay. The files target Minecraft 1.16.5, with resource pack compatibility extending to 1.20.2.
Trident craft
Trident Craft is a Minecraft Java datapack that adds a simple crafting table recipe for the trident, one of the game’s most sought after weapons. Instead of depending entirely on drowned drops or lengthy underwater exploration, players can obtain this versatile weapon through a fair progression based on common survival materials. The datapack keeps the trident’s original combat, throwing, and enchantment mechanics intact, making it a lightweight choice for a Minecraft server or survival world. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for groups that want easier access to tridents without changing the rest of vanilla gameplay.
![[DAI] Kitty's Dagger (Data)](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/thumbnails/2010/877/256/256/639234538420645189.png)
Copper Rail (data)
Copper Rail is a lightweight Minecraft data pack for Java Edition 1.20.6 that changes the crafting recipe for powered rails. Instead of gold ingots, the recipe uses copper, making powered rail production more accessible in worlds where copper is plentiful and gold is reserved for other projects. The rails keep their normal redstone powered behavior, so existing minecart lines and transport systems remain familiar. Designed for a vanilla friendly Minecraft server, this simple gameplay adjustment suits survival, technical, and transportation focused setups without adding blocks or mechanics. Our BoxToPlay experience makes it easy to enjoy a more copper focused railway economy.
Advancement Nuker
Advancement Nuker is a utility datapack for Minecraft Java Edition that removes advancements from the game by blocking data files whose paths contain “advancements”. This broad approach suppresses vanilla progression tabs and can also affect custom advancements supplied by other datapacks or compatible content. It suits players who want a cleaner interface, an achievement free survival experience, or a Minecraft server focused on exploration without pop ups and progression prompts. Because it changes how advancement data is loaded, it may affect packs that use advancements for objectives, rewards, or event triggers. BoxToPlay makes this kind of server customization easy to manage.
Easier Dyes!
Easier Dyes! adds practical recipes that make several dyes easier to obtain during the early stages of survival, while keeping the familiar vanilla experience intact. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21 and higher, it makes colorful building and decoration more accessible from the beginning of an adventure. Most music discs and charcoal can be crafted into black dye, leaf blocks provide green dye, and oak logs combined with a water bucket produce three brown dyes. Chorus fruit also provides purple dye. On a Minecraft server, BoxToPlay helps create a smoother, more creative progression with fewer frustrating resource hunts.
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.
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