CurseForge Datapacks
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Name Tag Mobs To Be Friends
Name Tag Mobs To Be Friends is a lightweight Minecraft datapack for Java Edition that lets players turn hostile or neutral creatures into peaceful companions. Rename a mob with a name tag set to “Friend”, and it will stop attacking players, making it useful for roleplay, protected builds, community areas, and friendly Minecraft server adventures. Friended mobs lose items held in their hands, no longer burn in sunlight, and cannot be zombified. They also stop producing drops, while bosses remain unaffected. The datapack uses Minecraft team mechanics and supports versions 1.20.x and 1.21 through 1.21.8. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for creative, social gameplay.
Multiplayer Display HUD
Multiplayer Display HUD is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that brings useful player information into familiar scoreboard locations, without requiring mods or a custom client. On a Minecraft server, each player’s health appears below their name and beside it in the TAB player list, making team coordination and combat awareness easier. The pack also places everyone’s experience level in the sidebar scoreboard, with display behavior adjustable through commands. Designed as a lightweight social and utility enhancement, it keeps multiplayer statistics visible at a glance while preserving the vanilla feel. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for survival servers, cooperative worlds, and community gameplay.
More Professions: Miner, Tinkerer and Alchemist
More Professions is a compact Minecraft datapack that expands village trading with three specialized careers: Miner, Tinkerer and Alchemist. It requires Villagers API and introduces dedicated workstations and trade pools, giving settlements more useful roles and a stronger sense of progression. Miners trade ores, stone materials, pickaxes and light sources from an anvil. Alchemists buy and sell potion ingredients through an alchemy table, while Tinkerers offer Create items such as andesite alloy and cogs from a mechanical crafter. Create content is optional for that profession, making the pack a practical addition to a modded Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for communities seeking deeper villager economies without changing the core survival experience.
Minecolonies Any Biome Crops
Minecolonies Any Biome Crops is a Minecraft datapack for MineColonies on Minecraft 1.21.1. It removes biome restrictions from every MineColonies crop, allowing colony farmers to plant, grow, and harvest their full selection regardless of the surrounding climate. This makes food production more flexible for a Minecraft server, especially in custom modpacks, challenging survival setups, or colonies built in deserts, snowy regions, and other specialized locations. Breaking grass can also provide crops associated with different biomes, reducing exploration pressure and helping your settlement maintain a reliable food supply. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for players who want MineColonies progression without climate based farming limits.
Looting for All
Looting for All is a lightweight Minecraft datapack that removes the usual restriction limiting Looting to swords. It lets you apply the enchantment to axes, maces, bows, crossbows, and tridents, giving more weapon styles a useful role when hunting mobs. The enchantment can be added through both an enchanting table and an anvil, so it fits naturally into survival progression without introducing a new interface or changing the rest of the loot system. Our BoxToPlay team recommends it for any Minecraft server seeking more flexible combat and better rewards with familiar mechanics. It supports Minecraft 1.21.7 and 1.21.8.
Log Striping using stone cutter!
Log Striping Using Stone Cutter is a lightweight Minecraft datapack that adds stone cutter recipes for turning regular logs into stripped logs. It gives the workstation a practical wood processing role, making it easier to prepare clean timber for building without placing blocks and using an axe manually. Designed for Java Edition and listed for Minecraft 1.21.x, the datapack focuses on a simple vanilla friendly quality of life change. It fits naturally into survival gameplay, saves time during large construction projects, and works well on a multiplayer Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for builders who want more convenient resource handling without changing the game’s overall style.
Let Sniffers Find Fossils (Fossils and Archeology)
Let Sniffers Find Fossils is a Minecraft datapack designed for Fossils and Archeology Revival. It expands the sniffer’s loot table with several modded discoveries, including bio fossils, plant fossils, shale fossils, tar fossils, and relic scraps. This gives sniffers a stronger role in paleontology and makes fossil hunting more accessible during survival gameplay. By adding renewable sources for important archaeological materials, the datapack encourages breeding and protecting sniffers on a Minecraft server. It is made for Minecraft 1.20.1 and may conflict with other datapacks or mods that edit the same loot table. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for prehistoric themed survival experiences.
KH Thirst
KH Thirst is a Minecraft datapack for Java Edition that adds a visible thirst bar and temperature gauge to the actionbar. Designed for a Minecraft server or single player world, it makes survival more demanding without requiring client mods. Water management, biome temperatures, day and night cycles, weather, shade, elevation, and contact with water all influence the player’s condition. Walking, sprinting, jumping, swimming, and attacking consume thirst, while dehydration can cause hunger, Slowness, Mining Fatigue, and damage. Hot or cold foods modify temperature, and dirty water must be treated before drinking. BoxToPlay makes this immersive survival system easy to include in your server experience, with adjustable difficulty levels from relaxed to extreme.
KeepXPs
KeepXPs is a lightweight Minecraft Java Edition datapack that preserves your accumulated experience when you die, while allowing your items to drop as usual. It delivers the useful part of the KeepInventory gamerule without removing the risk of losing equipment, making death less frustrating without turning survival into a completely consequence free experience. Designed for a vanilla Minecraft server, this simple gameplay utility focuses on one clear function and requires no mod or plugin. It suits survival communities that want to protect time spent gathering XP for enchanting, repairing, or trading. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for balanced quality of life improvements.
Immersive Engineering Sawmill Compat
Immersive Engineering Sawmill Compat is a practical Minecraft datapack for Minecraft 1.20.1 servers using Immersive Engineering. It expands the Sawmill’s processing recipes, allowing various modded logs to be turned into planks instead of remaining unsupported by the machine. The datapack includes compatibility for Biomes O’ Plenty, Oh The Biomes We’ve Gone, Regions Unexplored, Tinkers Construct, and Vanilla Backport. It is a focused utility designed to improve wood processing and keep modded forestry consistent across a modded Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for technical modpacks that want smoother resource automation.
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