CurseForge Datapacks
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Guard conversion
Guard Conversion is a utility Minecraft datapack that lets players transform ordinary villagers into armed guard villagers. On a Minecraft server, hold a compatible weapon, then crouch and right click a villager to begin the conversion. The new guard keeps the weapon used during the transformation, giving villages a practical defensive role.Supported equipment includes wooden, stone, golden, and diamond swords, plus a crossbow. This lightweight addition improves village protection and creates more engaging survival scenarios without changing the wider game. At BoxToPlay, we make this kind of server experience easy to enjoy.
TFC Arise-SS
TFC Arise SS is a Minecraft datapack designed to connect TerraFirmaCraft with When Dungeons Arise, Seven Seas on Minecraft 1.20.1. It provides a unified compatibility layer that adapts structure related blocks and generation data to the demanding TFC survival environment.With it, a Minecraft server can blend TFC’s immersive world generation with ocean exploration, including ships and coastal or deep sea encounters supplied by Seven Seas. The result is a more coherent adventure, where maritime structures fit naturally into progression and exploration. Our BoxToPlay team recommends it for modpacks seeking challenging survival, discovery, and better integration between land based and ocean based content.
Creaking Control
Creaking Control is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack for version 1.21.4 that gives the Creaking and its heart a more active role. By crafting and focusing an edited Creaking Heart with resin or echo shards, players can guide the creature with WASD, connect it to its heart, trigger sprinting, and create particle trails.The pack also adds a Creaking Compass, special resin shards, optional leashing, and teleportation through an ender pearl focus. These mechanics turn the Pale Garden’s eerie guardian into a versatile tool for adventures, challenges, and storytelling on a Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for players seeking fresh vanilla gameplay.
Way(More)Points
Way(More)Points is a vanilla friendly Minecraft Java datapack that turns lodestones into practical waypoints. Throw a compass onto an activated lodestone to register its location, then follow it from the player locator bar on your HUD. Breaking the lodestone removes the waypoint, keeping exploration organized without filling your inventory with lodestone compasses.Each marker can be personalized with more than 50 million color and icon combinations. Dye the lodestone to create a custom color and use specific items to select one of 11 icons, including home, portal, stronghold, mountain, sword, and food. Our BoxToPlay team recommends it for any Minecraft server focused on exploration, survival, and clear navigation.
The Wildcaster
The Wildcaster is a Minecraft datapack for Java Edition 1.21.4 that adds a mysterious wand to survival and adventure gameplay. Hidden in Woodland Mansions, this magical item has a limited number of uses, making every casting valuable and unpredictable.Each spell triggers a random effect, from summoning entities and altering the environment to granting temporary player buffs. The result is a playful risk and reward mechanic that can turn exploration into a surprising challenge. We recommend The Wildcaster for any Minecraft server seeking a compact dose of magic and unpredictability, with automatic installation on BoxToPlay.
Miracle Skills Rebalance
Miracle Skills Rebalance is a Minecraft datapack created to retune the skill tree from LHKY’s Miracle Road for the Ashenland Modpack. Designed for Minecraft 1.20.1, it focuses on improving progression balance across the modpack’s character development system, helping professions, attributes, and bonuses fit Ashenland’s broader gameplay more naturally.For a Minecraft server, this compatibility focused datapack offers a more cohesive progression experience without replacing the core Miracle Road system. BoxToPlay makes it easy to include this adjustment in your Ashenland setup, so players can enjoy a better balanced skill journey during exploration, combat, and long term survival.
The Butcher's Nails
The Butcher’s Nails is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that reworks creature drops to make hunting far more rewarding. Most living creatures that have skin, or logically provide leather, can now drop leather and bones, giving exploration and combat a darker survival purpose.Loot scales with the Looting enchantment, while selected mobs can provide fitting extra rewards, including villagers, wandering traders, and piglins. With broad coverage across the game’s living creatures, this datapack changes resource gathering without adding complex systems, making every encounter more valuable on a Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for survival experiences that favour risk, progression, and grim humour.
Holidays & Happenings
Holidays & Happenings is a seasonal Minecraft datapack for Java Edition that adds festive events and year round surprises to a Minecraft server. Administrators can choose the active season, with Fall, Winter, and Spring currently supported, changing which holiday encounters and traders appear.Players can join large scale events, collect Spirit Shards, and exchange them with the Trader of Holiday Spirit for themed items, cosmetics, armor, weapons, mobs, and decorations. Mailboxes, packages, shooting stars, blessings, curses, and rare lunar events add variety between celebrations. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for multiplayer communities seeking a lively seasonal experience. A resource pack is required for the complete presentation.
CreateSalad Datapack
CreateSalad Datapack is a lightweight Minecraft data pack for Minecraft 1.20.1, created to smooth out recipe conflicts in modded gameplay. It is especially useful alongside Create, Create: Deco, and Create: Additions, where overlapping zinc sheet recipes can otherwise cause confusion or prevent the intended crafting path.The pack also adds a way to farm lapis lazuli, giving progression more flexibility without changing the broader character of the modpack. For our BoxToPlay Minecraft server community, it offers a practical quality of life adjustment that keeps recipes clearer and resource gathering more convenient.
Zombie Horses From Abandoned Villages (Datapack)
This atmospheric Minecraft datapack gives Zombie Villages a unique reason to explore by replacing the usual animals in their pens and stables with undead horses. It brings a previously difficult to encounter mob into survival gameplay while keeping the abandoned village theme consistent.Horses may appear as adults, permanent babies, or with zombie villagers riding them while wearing enchanted iron gear. Players can also mount these creatures, and they remain rideable underwater without forcing the rider to dismount, echoing skeleton horse behaviour. On a Minecraft server, our BoxToPlay team recommends it for adding memorable discoveries and extra atmosphere to exploration.
Alexia's Extra Advancements
Alexia’s Extra Advancements is a Minecraft Java datapack that expands vanilla progression without changing the game’s core mechanics. It introduces many additional advancements, brings back selected classic achievements, and adds fresh objectives based on exploration, collecting, crafting, and gradual progression.A dedicated advancement tab focuses on gathering items in every available colour, creating a lasting challenge for completionists. Compatible with Minecraft Java Edition 1.20, 1.20.1, and 1.21.4, it gives players more reasons to revisit familiar activities on a Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for survival communities seeking extra goals and a richer progression experience.
Starter Items
Starter Items is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that improves the beginning of a survival game by giving each new player useful supplies on their first join. Instead of collecting every basic resource immediately, players can choose from ten themed starter kits, including Adventure Gear, Alchemist, Builder, Craftsman, Fisher, Hunter, Knight, Miner, Nomad, and Survival.Kits provide practical equipment such as leather armor, wooden tools, food, building materials, torches, a bed, a crafting table, a shield, and a water bucket, with contents varying by play style. It suits a solo world or a cooperative Minecraft server, offering a smoother opening without replacing normal progression. At BoxToPlay, we see it as a convenient way to personalize the first minutes of play.
Enchanted Golden Apple Duplication
Enchanted Golden Apple Duplication is a utility datapack for Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.1 that adds a dedicated way to duplicate Enchanted Golden Apples. Its core mechanic follows Mojang’s duplication design, keeping the feature close to vanilla logic instead of introducing a complex progression system or unrelated gameplay changes.By making this powerful food item easier to reproduce, the pack can support long survival sessions, challenging adventures, and resource focused economies on a Minecraft server. It is a focused addition for players who want more dependable access to enchanted golden apples while preserving Minecraft’s familiar feel. BoxToPlay makes this kind of server customization easy to enjoy.
CS addon: Hardcore crops
This data pack expands the farming rules of Cold Sweat Limitations: Crops by assigning temperature requirements to crops from several popular farming mods. Vanilla crops, Farmer’s Delight, Fruits Delight, Corn Delight, Vintage Delight, and Rustic Delight are supported, helping each plant fit naturally into a climate focused survival experience.Used alongside Cold Sweat and its crop limitations add on, it makes farming more demanding and encourages thoughtful biome selection, shelter, and planning. Our BoxToPlay team recommends it for any Minecraft server seeking deeper survival mechanics and a more meaningful relationship between climate and food production.
Recycler's Delight
Recycler’s Delight is a Java Edition Minecraft datapack that adds extra cutting board recipes to Farmer’s Delight. Its main purpose is to break down clutter and unwanted items into useful constituent components, including materials that can support building and crafting projects. Recipes use tags, keeping the system flexible while avoiding unnecessary recipe entries in JEI, REI, or EMI. The pack also includes built in compatibility for Quark, Supplementaries, Supplementaries Squared, Storage Drawers, and Create. Supporting Minecraft 1.19.2 and 1.20.1, it brings a practical recycling feature to any Minecraft server managed with BoxToPlay.
Fairy (Origins)
Fairy (Origins) adds a charming Fairy Origin to Minecraft, giving players a small and magical identity suited to fantasy focused survival. Its compact size changes movement and combat, creating a distinct playstyle that feels nimble but fragile.The Origin grants creative flight and passive regeneration in selected biomes, while its very limited health makes danger much more threatening. This datapack is a lovely choice for an adventure themed Minecraft server, especially when players want unusual abilities and meaningful weaknesses. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for communities looking to add a lighthearted yet challenging fantasy role to their server experience.
Gateways to eternity X Special Mobs
Gateways to Eternity X Special Mobs is a Minecraft datapack for Java Edition 1.20.1 that connects the Gateways to Eternity mod with Special Mobs. It adjusts compatibility so Special Mobs creatures can take part in the original Gateway encounters, helping wave based combat events function more smoothly in modded gameplay.Designed for a Minecraft server, this focused pack enriches existing portals without introducing a separate progression system or replacement gateways. It is a practical addition for modpacks that combine both mods, offering more consistent and varied combat encounters. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for cooperative survival servers seeking tougher battles and a better integrated gameplay experience.
ShippingBin Croptopia Compat
ShippingBin Croptopia Compat is a focused Minecraft datapack that connects the Shipping Bin mod with Croptopia on Minecraft 1.20.1. It adds Croptopia crops and food items to the Shipping Bin’s trading system, allowing players to sell produce from the farming mod instead of limiting the bin to its original entries.This compatibility layer gives agriculture a clearer economic purpose and makes large harvests useful on a cooperative Minecraft server. Its trade values may not suit every modpack, so server owners can consider the balance of their economy. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for farming centered experiences that already include both required mods.
silver species
Silver Species is a Minecraft datapack that improves recipe compatibility between Species, Oreganized, and Supplementaries for Minecraft 1.20.1. It replaces iron components in the Species cranktrap and crankbow with Oreganized silver, giving these creations a more coherent place in modded survival.The crankbow recipe is also redesigned around two silver, two silver nuggets, three werefangs, and one Supplementaries crank. This small adjustment makes progression feel more consistent while preserving the identity of each mod. Our BoxToPlay team recommends it for any Minecraft server combining these three mods and seeking smoother crafting integration.
Craftable Sponge by Potato_XIII
Craftable Sponge is a lightweight Minecraft Java datapack for version 1.20.1 that adds a practical survival recipe for the sponge block. Instead of relying exclusively on ocean monuments, players can craft one using four leaves, making this usually rare utility item more accessible during everyday play.Any type of leaves can be used, and picking up leaves unlocks the recipe, according to the project description. It is a simple quality of life improvement for a Minecraft server, especially when players need sponges for clearing water, building, or decoration. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for vanilla friendly gameplay that preserves the value of exploration.
Better WorldBorder
Better WorldBorder is a Minecraft datapack that transforms the built in world border into a central survival mechanic. Instead of remaining a distant limit, the border grows as players survive and complete advancements, making exploration and progression directly influence the size of the playable area.Normal mode expands every two survival days, with larger rewards over time, while Hardcore mode grants daily growth and makes death end the run. Death also shrinks the border in Normal mode, and a timer HUD announces changes. Advancement rewards, instant death beyond the boundary, and a rare reset item add tension to any Minecraft server. BoxToPlay makes this challenge easy to enjoy with one click.
Flashing Nexus Towers
Flashing Nexus Towers is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack for version 1.21.1 that improves visual compatibility between Ars Elemental and Ars Additions. It adds Ars Elemental’s Flashing Archwood to the possible colour variants used by Ars Additions Nexus Towers, allowing these magical structures to appear with a broader and more cohesive palette.Designed for modded survival and exploration, the datapack preserves the original Nexus Tower concept while making generated locations feel less repetitive and better integrated with an Archwood themed environment. It is a focused enhancement for a magic oriented Minecraft server, and our BoxToPlay team recommends it for players who want more atmospheric world generation without changing core progression.
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