Modrinth Datapacks
Browse Modrinth datapacks compatible with your Minecraft server worlds
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Oceanic
Oceanic is a Minecraft Java datapack that expands the game’s oceans and turns fishing into a richer survival activity. It introduces 10 new fish, more than 25 items, three custom music discs, biome specific catches, aquatic creatures, recipes, food, and a custom advancement path. Fish can appear as living mobs in their natural environments, while anglers near beaches offer useful trades for valuable rewards. Designed for singleplayer and server side play, Oceanic adds exploration, collection, and progression without replacing Minecraft’s core identity. On a Minecraft server, it gives players more reasons to sail, dive, fish, cook, and explore. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for survival communities seeking a lively ocean focused experience, with support listed for Minecraft 1.19.4 and 1.20 to 1.20.1.
Guns, Gadgetery & Mission Editor
This Minecraft datapack brings modern combat and mission design to Java Edition, in solo play or on a multiplayer Minecraft server. It adds firearms ranging from revolvers to heavy weapons, explosives, ammunition, armed custom mobs, team mechanics, and shops for tactical equipment. Its Game Master’s Book acts as an in game scenario editor, allowing creators to set up missions, summon NPCs, assign teams, and adjust gameplay options, including time, weather, and world rules. Gadgets such as grappling hooks, night vision goggles, jet boots, parachutes, and rebreathers expand exploration and strategy. BoxToPlay makes this adventure focused experience easy to enjoy with friends.
Craftable Saddle
Craftable Saddle is a lightweight Minecraft Java datapack that adds a practical crafting recipe for saddles. Designed for Minecraft 1.21 and its 1.21.x releases, it gives survival players a reliable way to obtain this essential item without depending entirely on dungeon loot, fishing, trading, or exploration. By making saddles easier to acquire, the datapack encourages earlier use of horses, donkeys, camels, pigs, and other rideable mobs. It is a simple quality of life improvement for any Minecraft server, especially survival worlds where dependable transport matters. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for players who want smoother progression while keeping the vanilla gameplay style.
Trims Overhaul
Trims Overhaul [Limitless] is a Minecraft datapack that transforms armor trims from decorative details into meaningful gameplay tools. Each trim receives its own set of powers, activated when a complete matching trim set is equipped, giving players new ways to fight, explore, travel, or survive. The system can remain open ended or connect progression to quests, template restrictions, and configurable tasks. A dedicated menu provides information about abilities and player trust options, while administrators can adjust powers, disable selected trims, and balance difficulty. At BoxToPlay, it adds flexible progression and fresh strategic choices to any Minecraft server.
Ancient Artifacts 2
Ancient Artifacts 2 expands survival gameplay with more than 50 artifacts, each offering distinctive powers, levels, and effects. Explore overgrown ruins across every dimension, defeat their guardians, and search for rare artifact chests. The pack adds two challenging boss fights, custom structures, and extra objectives that make exploration more rewarding. Artifacts can be equipped, upgraded, crafted, recycled, and traded through the Artifact Smith and Artifact Cauldron systems. You can activate up to two artifacts at once, creating new combat and adventure strategies. We recommend this content for any Java Edition Minecraft server, and BoxToPlay makes the server experience easy to enjoy.
Not Enough Trinket Slots (NETS)
Not Enough Trinket Slots, or NETS, is a Minecraft datapack and Trinkets add on for Java Edition. It expands the available equipment slots, giving players far more room to wear rings and other compatible accessories at the same time. Most standard Trinkets slot types receive additional spaces, making character builds more flexible and reducing the need to choose between useful items. Designed for Fabric and Quilt environments, NETS works especially well on a modded Minecraft server focused on exploration, adventure, or progression. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for communities that want deeper equipment customization without adding complicated mechanics.
Smelting Enchantment
Smelting Enchantment is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that adds a special enchantment for pickaxes. When an enchanted pickaxe breaks eligible ores, their drops are automatically converted into the corresponding smelted materials, reducing the need to manage furnaces during mining. Designed for both singleplayer and server use, this utility keeps resource gathering fast and convenient while preserving the familiar Minecraft experience. It is especially useful during long mining sessions, where immediate access to ingots and other processed materials improves inventory management and progression. On our Minecraft server at BoxToPlay, it brings a practical quality of life upgrade to everyday exploration.
Compatible Protection Enchantments
Compatible Protection Enchantments is a lightweight Minecraft datapack for Java Edition that removes the usual incompatibility between the four standard armor protection enchantments: Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection, and Projectile Protection. Instead of choosing only one type on each armor piece, players can combine them to create more versatile defenses against general damage, explosions, fire, and projectiles. Designed for a Minecraft server or singleplayer world, it changes enchantment compatibility without adding new items, levels, or unrelated mechanics. The result is a straightforward gameplay adjustment that gives survival, adventure, and combat focused setups greater flexibility. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for communities that want stronger customization while keeping the vanilla enchantments recognizable.
Too Expensive Removed
Too Expensive Removed is a Minecraft Java datapack that removes the anvil’s “Too Expensive!” limitation, allowing players to continue repairing, combining, and enchanting heavily used equipment. It targets the accumulated anvil penalty that can otherwise block valuable gear, making long term progression more flexible without changing the core anvil interface. Designed for singleplayer and multiplayer, it works server side and supports several Java Edition versions. Its simple item refresh workflow makes the effect easy to use during normal gameplay. On a Minecraft server, it provides a practical quality of life improvement that our BoxToPlay team recommends for players who want fewer artificial restrictions.
No Crop Trample
No Crop Trample is a Minecraft Java datapack that protects cultivated farmland from accidental trampling. In its main version, any player wearing boots with at least one level of Feather Falling can jump, land, and move around crop fields without turning farmland into dirt or damaging the plants. It is a simple quality of life tweak that keeps farms productive and reduces frustration during everyday survival gameplay. An alternate version removes farmland trampling for everyone, regardless of equipment or enchantments. We recommend this lightweight option for a relaxed Minecraft server experience, and BoxToPlay makes it easy to add to your gameplay with one click.
Recipes Plus
Recipes Plus is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that expands vanilla crafting with practical, common sense alternatives. Designed for singleplayer and any Minecraft server, it fills gaps in the recipe system without introducing a separate technology tree or changing the game’s overall identity. Its additions cover reversible block crafting, broader stonecutter options, dye mixing, material recovery, pottery sherd duplication, wood cutting, and recipes for selected previously unobtainable items. Some environmental processes, such as making basalt or cobblestone, can also be represented through crafting. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for survival servers seeking more flexibility while keeping progression familiar and close to vanilla.
Compatible Sword Enchantments
This Minecraft datapack changes the usual enchantment rules by allowing Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods to coexist on the same sword. Instead of choosing one damage specialization, players can create a versatile weapon that remains effective against ordinary enemies, undead creatures, and arthropods. Enchantments can be combined through an anvil or offered together by an enchantment table, making progression more flexible for survival, combat challenges, and farms. Designed for Minecraft Java Edition, it adds a simple but meaningful gameplay change to any Minecraft server. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for players who want stronger, more adaptable swords without adding new items or complex mechanics.
Desert Scourge
Desert Scourge is a Minecraft datapack that brings a unique desert boss to Java Edition, inspired by the Terraria Calamity Mod. It introduces a massive sandworm that burrows through the desert and turns an otherwise familiar biome into a dangerous arena. Designed for adventure focused gameplay, the encounter adds a memorable challenge for solo players and groups, with custom boss behavior, equipment related progression, and a stronger reason to explore desert regions. Our BoxToPlay Minecraft server experience makes this datapack a natural choice for players who want more demanding vanilla content without installing a complete mod.
Death Swap
Death Swap is a Java Edition Minecraft datapack that turns survival into a tense multiplayer minigame for two to eight players. Every five minutes, participants exchange locations, creating sudden dangers and opportunities to outsmart one another. Before each exchange, a short warning gives everyone only a few seconds to react. Build traps, prepare hazardous environments, or place yourself in danger so another player inherits it after the swap. Deaths are tracked, eliminated players can enter spectator mode, and the last survivor wins. Our BoxToPlay server experience makes this strategic challenge ideal for friendly competitions, unpredictable encounters, and replayable matches.
Chestpack Backpacks
Chestpack Backpacks is a lightweight Minecraft datapack that adds simple, vanilla friendly storage for exploration and building. It lets players pick up chests, trapped chests, and barrels with an empty Chestpack, carry them in the offhand, then place the container back down wherever it is needed. Because the chest slot remains available, normal armor protection is preserved. Designed for Minecraft Java Edition servers and singleplayer worlds, it works without client side mods and has minimal gameplay impact. Chestpacks are fireproof, while carrying more than one loaded pack creates a weight burden. Our BoxToPlay experience makes this practical for cooperative survival and organized base projects.
WizardZ
WizardZ is a Minecraft datapack that connects the Wizards RPG mod with the progression system from LevelZ. It makes magical equipment and related items follow level requirements, adding a clearer sense of character development to adventure, exploration, and combat on a Minecraft server. The pack also supports extra weapons provided through Better End and Better Nether, when those mods are present. Its item and level entries can be freely edited, making it useful for custom modpacks and balanced multiplayer progression. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for servers seeking a more structured magical RPG experience. It is designed for Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.1 with Fabric or Quilt.
Double Jump
CoffeeG’s Double Jump is a Java Edition datapack that expands Minecraft movement with responsive aerial abilities. It lets players perform a double jump while airborne, launch a stronger charged jump by sneaking before takeoff, and gain an extra jump after touching a wall or block through wall bounce. Designed for singleplayer and Minecraft server gameplay, it adds an optional faster sprinting feature and configurable settings through its menu function. Creative mode automatically disables double jump in supported releases, helping preserve normal building controls. We recommend it for parkour, adventure maps, minigames, and servers seeking more dynamic exploration. At BoxToPlay, it offers a light movement upgrade without changing the core survival experience.
Craftable Horse Armor
Craftable Horse Armor is a Minecraft Java datapack that adds crafting recipes for every horse armor type, turning equipment normally found through exploration and loot into a renewable survival resource. Its recipes follow a familiar vanilla style, helping players prepare mounts without relying entirely on generated structures or random chest rewards. Designed for singleplayer and server side use, this lightweight datapack fits naturally into survival, adventure, and multiplayer gameplay. It gives horse focused players more control over progression and makes equipping, replacing, or outfitting several mounts far more convenient. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for any Minecraft server seeking a practical vanilla friendly improvement.
Info Tools
Info Tools is a lightweight Minecraft Java datapack that turns ordinary tools into practical information displays. When a compass is present in your inventory, the action bar shows your current coordinates and facing direction, providing a clear alternative to the F3 menu. A clock displays the world’s time of day in a readable 24 hour format, with Day or Night indicators and the corresponding day number. Designed for singleplayer worlds and server Minecraft environments, this utility keeps exploration more convenient without permanently filling the interface with extra data. Players can also access a configuration menu through a trigger command. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for survival servers that value helpful information while preserving a vanilla style experience.
Epic Fight x Spartan Weaponry
Epic Fight x Spartan Weaponry is a Java Edition datapack that connects the Spartan Weaponry arsenal with Epic Fight’s action focused combat system. Designed for Minecraft 1.20.1, it requires both mods and assigns compatible Epic Fight weapon styles to Spartan equipment, so these additions can be used naturally during battles on a Minecraft server. The pack covers several weapon families, including katanas, longswords, rapiers, sabers, and throwing knives. It also adjusts combat values such as reach, armor negation, impact, and targets hit per swing, creating more consistent animations and balance. We recommend it for BoxToPlay servers built around challenging, role playing combat.
Amethyst Nether
Amethyst Nether is a datapack and mod for Minecraft Java Edition that completely reshapes the Nether. Custom world generation creates a more cavernous landscape filled with rivers, caves, canyons, and distinctive terrain. The experience adds new biomes, including Black Peaks, Sulfur Fields, and Wart Heap, as well as fortresses, bastion variants, exclusive mob variants, recipes, equipment, food, and loot. Toxic areas introduce extra danger and make the gas mask an important survival tool. Designed for singleplayer and server Minecraft gameplay, it gives exploration, combat, and resource gathering a fresh direction. BoxToPlay makes this content easy to enjoy on your Minecraft server.
Balanced Horse Armor Recipes
Balanced Horse Armor Recipes is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that introduces balanced crafting recipes for leather, iron, golden, and diamond horse armor, along with the saddle. It gives players a practical way to obtain essential riding equipment without changing other gameplay systems or adding complex mechanics. Designed for singleplayer worlds and server side use, this utility datapack supports a broad range of Minecraft versions and fits naturally into survival progression. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for any Minecraft server aiming to make horse exploration more accessible while preserving a fair sense of resource value.
Cheap Templates
Cheap Templates is a Minecraft Java Edition datapack that reworks crafting recipes for templates, including armor trims, so their ingredients better match the materials shown in their textures. Instead of relying heavily on diamonds, recipes focus on the resource that visually defines each template, making them more affordable and intuitive to craft. Designed for Minecraft 1.20 and 1.20.1, it works server side in singleplayer or on a Minecraft server through datapack support, with Fabric and Forge compatibility listed as well. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for survival communities seeking smoother progression without changing the vanilla style.
Elytra Vaults
Elytra Vaults is a Minecraft Java datapack and server plugin that replaces the single Elytra display found on End City Ships with a Vault. Each player can unlock the container and obtain their own Elytra, preventing early explorers from taking the only reward and leaving nothing for others. Designed for cooperative survival, it makes End exploration fairer and keeps progression enjoyable on a busy Minecraft server. A Shulker Shell serves as the opening requirement, adding a small cost while preserving the adventure. At BoxToPlay, we recommend it for communities that want reliable access to flight without removing the challenge of reaching the End.
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