CurseForge Datapacks
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Elemental Powers
Elemental Powers is a Minecraft datapack that adds four craftable objects, each linked to a different elemental power. Players can choose only one, making the decision meaningful from the start of their adventure. The available powers are water, wind, earth, and fire, giving every player a distinct identity and gameplay style. This simple system works well for survival, roleplay, and player combat, while encouraging cooperation and friendly competition on a Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for communities looking to add variety and light progression without changing Minecraft’s core experience. The datapack is listed for Minecraft 1.21.4.
Ebonroot
Ebonroot is a Minecraft Java datapack built for the Ebonroot Origin, turning players into subterranean Sculk beings focused on mining, territory, and survival. On a Minecraft server, it adds a distinctive playstyle shaped by limited vision, vibration immunity, and a personal Catalyst that anchors the player’s body.Enter Spirit Form to spread Sculk around Catalysts, benefit from Sculk covered terrain, detect entities revealed by sensors, and harvest many pickaxe materials with your fists. Converted Shriekers can summon Sculk Allays, which provide random ores while mining and can absorb one hit. BoxToPlay makes this atmospheric origin easy to enjoy in a cooperative server experience.
Hidetag | Hide Nametags
Hidetag is a Java Edition Minecraft datapack that makes player names invisible above their heads. Designed for a Minecraft server, it hides nameplates for everyone automatically, including players who join later, helping create more immersive survival, roleplay, hide and seek, or PvP experiences.Its flexible controls let administrators show or hide nametags globally, apply visibility by day or night in the Overworld, or limit the effect to selected dimensions. Individual players can also receive permanent visibility overrides, while a status function displays the active mode. At BoxToPlay, we recommend this lightweight utility for a cleaner and less predictable multiplayer experience without changing player models or gameplay rules.
Lower World
Lower World is a lightweight Minecraft datapack that extends the playable vertical space of the Overworld down to Y, minus 128. Designed for Minecraft 1.21.1, it gives miners and explorers more underground terrain to discover without adding new biomes, blocks, or special mechanics.By opening deeper layers beneath the usual world floor, the pack encourages longer mining trips, larger subterranean builds, and fresh exploration routes. It is a focused option for a survival Minecraft server that wants more depth while preserving a familiar vanilla experience. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for simple, server friendly underground expansion.
Sit Anywhere by Qwazor
Sit Anywhere by Qwazor is a lightweight Minecraft datapack for Java Edition that lets you create seats almost anywhere in your world. Designed for Minecraft 1.21 and 1.21.1, it works in survival without requiring commands for regular use, making it a practical addition to a Minecraft server.To create a seat, place an armor stand named “Seat” on the desired block. A second armor stand named “Clear Seat” removes it and returns both items. Server operators can also activate an optional help command through the datapack. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for social hubs, taverns, waiting areas, and decorative builds.
BM: More Geodes
BM More Geodes is a Minecraft datapack that expands the vanilla geode system with themed variants for mining and exploration. It adds balanced ore geodes for every vanilla ore, plus special geodes with slime, ice, honey, and amethyst inspired content, giving caves a more varied and rewarding feel.Designed for a Minecraft server or single player survival, it aims to stay close to vanilla balance while adding fresh underground discoveries. We at BoxToPlay like its broad compatibility with world generation setups and its strong impact on progression without changing the game’s core style.
Dyes Reimagined
Dyes Reimagined, formerly known as “Make a Dye Out Of It”, is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that refreshes vanilla dye crafting without changing the game’s overall identity. It removes unnecessary recipes, adjusts others to be more universal, and introduces many new ways to obtain colors from accessible materials.The pack also adds recipes for glow ink sacs, plus 17 advancements, including one hidden challenge and an informative tree explaining dye mixing. Its server side compatibility makes it a practical upgrade for a shared Minecraft server managed with BoxToPlay.
Basic Magent And Size Shifting
Basic Magent And Size Shifting is a lightweight Minecraft datapack that adds two practical utilities for a Minecraft server. Its item magnet teleports dropped items from within a seven block radius directly to the player, making mining, building, and gathering more convenient.Players can also change their personal scale with trigger commands, becoming smaller with negative values or larger with positive values. Zero restores normal proportions, while the supported range extends from minus sixteen to sixteen. The datapack includes Magnet, SizeHelp, and Replacement_Size triggers, making it useful for creative experiments and multiplayer gameplay. With BoxToPlay, it brings a playful new dimension to server sessions, although extreme sizes may cause unusual behavior.
Mob Progression
Mob Progression is a Java Edition Minecraft datapack that makes hostile encounters evolve with your progress. As you obtain better equipment, nearby enemies advance through stronger gear tiers, creating a more demanding survival experience without replacing Minecraft’s familiar gameplay.The pack affects skeletons, zombies, creepers, spiders, drowned, wither skeletons, zombified piglins, vexes, and pillagers. Their progression moves from iron armor to diamond armor, then full netherite armor, giving exploration and combat a lasting challenge. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for any Minecraft server seeking a simple, vanilla friendly difficulty curve.
Custom Daylight-Cycle
Custom Daylight Cycle is a Minecraft Java datapack that replaces the standard daylight progression, letting server owners define separate real time durations for daytime and nighttime. A 30 minute day with a five minute night is one possible setup, making survival schedules more flexible and distinctive.The pack can pause or resume its custom calculation, apply presets for day, night, sunrise, and sundown, and adjust durations through functions. It changes the sun and moon positions without altering the world’s normal time advancement rule. For a tailored Minecraft server, our BoxToPlay experience makes this atmospheric time system easy to enjoy.
aesthetic and performant
Aesthetic and Performant is a Minecraft datapack designed to improve efficiency without sacrificing visual quality. It reduces terrain generation noise processing to a single layer, helping limit noise related lag and leaving more resources available for gameplay, performance and visual mods.It also streamlines several client behaviors, including mipmap handling, shader and ambient occlusion defaults, focus related pauses, thread priority and a known texture issue. The result is a cleaner foundation for a modded Minecraft server, especially in packs that combine demanding content with aesthetic enhancements. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for a lighter, smoother experience.
Simple Hats - Lowered Drop Rate
Simple Hats, Lowered Drop Rate is a Minecraft Java datapack designed to rebalance the frequency of cosmetic hat rewards from the Simple Hats mod. It changes the default chance from 100 percent to 10 percent, making hat related drops considerably less common during survival gameplay.This adjustment gives each hat bag or reward greater value, encourages longer term collecting, and reduces inventory clutter on a Minecraft server. It is a focused gameplay tweak for communities that enjoy Simple Hats but prefer rarer cosmetics and a more rewarding sense of discovery. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for survival worlds where progression and collection should feel more deliberate.
Useless Upgrade Template - DP
Useless Upgrade Template DP is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that changes the Smithing Table recipe for Netherite equipment. Instead of consuming a Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template, upgrading diamond tools, weapons, and armor requires a gold ingot, while the template remains available but no longer blocks progression.This adjustment makes Netherite gear more accessible and removes the need to search dangerous Bastion Remnants for templates. It preserves the familiar upgrade process and fits survival gameplay on a Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we consider it a practical choice for players who want smoother progression without adding new items or complex mechanics.
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Simple TFC Datapack
Simple TFC Datapack is a support datapack designed for the TerraFirmaCraft mod and forms part of the SimpleTFC experience. It adjusts progression with practical recipes and survival improvements while preserving TFC’s demanding atmosphere. In versions 1.20.1 and 1.18.2, predators can provide meat, making food gathering more reliable in regions where animals are scarce. The 1.20.1 release also lets TFC magma blocks power the Immersive Engineering thermoelectric generator at 1300 K, while charcoal powder can be heated into graphite. Additional fire clay recipes reduce dependence on graphite and kaolin. BoxToPlay makes it a strong choice for a cooperative Minecraft server.
Mineable Trial Spawner
Mineable Trial Spawner is a Minecraft Java datapack that changes how trial spawners and vaults behave. Instead of disappearing permanently when mined, these valuable blocks can drop as items when broken with a pickaxe, making them easier to relocate, preserve, or reuse on a Minecraft server. The default setting allows drops from ordinary pickaxes.An in game configuration option lets server owners require a Silk Touch pickaxe before either block drops, adding a useful layer of balance for survival worlds, adventure maps, and technical projects. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for communities that want more control over Trial Chambers without changing their broader progression.
Achievements+
Achievements+ is a work in progress Minecraft datapack focused on custom achievements for killing mobs. It expands the Monster Slayer idea from Recipes+ by giving creatures their own progression goals and custom titles, encouraging players to make combat a more purposeful part of survival.The project features redesigned achievement pages, mob collections, a day counter, and a planned rarity system linked to each creature’s final achievement. Future development may also introduce rewards and side stories or quests. On a Minecraft server, our BoxToPlay experience makes this progression a natural addition to cooperative survival.
Craft Sponge
Craft Sponge adds a new crafting recipe that lets players obtain a wet sponge without relying solely on ocean monuments. The recipe combines four slime blocks, four yellow concrete powder blocks, and one water bucket to produce one wet sponge, offering a clear resource path for ocean building, underwater bases, and large scale water removal.Designed for Minecraft Java Edition, this lightweight datapack changes only the crafting system, keeping the rest of the vanilla experience intact. On a Minecraft server, it gives survival players more flexibility while preserving the value of exploration. At BoxToPlay, we see it as a simple quality of life addition for aquatic projects and practical construction.
Changed - Origins Compatibility Suite
Changed Origins Compatibility Suite is a Minecraft datapack that connects the transfurmation system from Changed with the origin abilities provided by the Forge version of Origins. It removes the previous restriction that limited transfurs mainly to human characters, allowing players with different origins to experience Changed’s transformations.Origin powers and transfurmation effects can work together, creating distinctive combinations of abilities, statistics, visual effects, and playstyles. The datapack is designed for Minecraft 1.20.1 and supports additional compatible or custom origins through straightforward expansion. On a Minecraft server, it adds extra variety to survival and roleplay experiences, a feature we at BoxToPlay recommend for modded communities.
Nuke Bay Balance pack-Less Drop type weapons per ship
Nuke Bay Balance Pack is a Java Edition Minecraft datapack designed to moderate the number of type DROP weapons that aircraft can release when used with the Nuclear Bomb Bay addon and Immersive Aircraft. It is made for multiplayer balance, helping prevent large planes from delivering too many nuclear bombs at once.The pack reduces drop weapons on airships, biplanes, and gyrocopters from two to one, while limiting warships to one weapon per slot, with a maximum of two. It also adjusts the Scarlet Biplane from Man of Many Planes. Our BoxToPlay Minecraft server experience benefits from fairer aerial combat and more controlled destruction.
Village Map On Start
Village Map On Start improves the opening moments of a Java Edition survival game by giving each player a map pointing toward the nearest village when they join the world for the first time. The feature is automatic and designed to make early exploration more purposeful without changing world generation or adding complex mechanics.For a Minecraft server, this datapack helps newcomers find villagers, trading opportunities, shelter, and useful supplies sooner. It supports Minecraft versions from 1.18.2 through the 1.21 series and is a convenient quality of life addition that our BoxToPlay team can provide for a smoother start.
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