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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 6d

⭐ Featured projects ⭐

🖊️ Enter a world from the pages of a sketch book!
📖 Unleash your creativity with books you can draw in!
⛏️ Create your own custom tools from molten metals!
🍄 Forage from the forests and feast on new foods!

...and a few more

https://modrinth.com/collection/YgtmZC6O

A Minecraft scene drawn in pen, featuring walls of bookshelves at night

A Minecraft scene of a machine holding molten metals, pouring them into casts.

A Minecraft scene of a basement filled with crates of large puffball mushrooms.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 9d

Modrinth does not provide support on social media. Please use: support.modrinth.com

Modrinth Help Center

support.modrinth.com

Modrinth @modrinth.com · 10d

Modtoberfest 2025 has begun!
Submit 4 valid PRs to any of the participating projects, and you'll earn a sticker pack featuring some exclusive Modrinth stickers and many more from creators you'll recognize.

-> https://modtoberfest.com/rules

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 12d

"1.21.10" looks more like an IP address than an actual Minecraft version number.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 14d

⭐ Featured projects ⭐

🗺️ Make your maps more realistic!
🦵 Bring modern animated flair to an old-school version!
🦜 Meet new birds from the land down under!
🐾 Add some Primal Pals to your world!

...and a few more

https://modrinth.com/collection/Ot87gIme

A Minecraft scene from the perspective of a player holding a map while looking at an area with a colorful display of flowers. The map depicts the same scene from a birds eye view, with a colorful pattern being formed by the flowers.

A scene of a Minecraft player looking at the camera while swinging a diamond sword. The player is taking an aggressive stance, and a trail follows the slashing pattern of the sword.

A Minecraft scene of a pair of male and female Superb parrots stand next to a poppy flower in a dark oak forest

A Minecraft scene of three Bears in a birch forest, one with dark fur looks at the viewer, another with red fur lays down spread out while on a fallen log, while carrying a barrel on their back, the last bear with cream fur lays on the grass.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 18d

https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/donate

Donate - Rainbow Railroad Donate

Donate to Rainbow Railroad to help at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety.

www.rainbowrailroad.org

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 18d

Now is as good a time as any to highlight a way of supporting the LGBTQ+ community internationally.
Rainbow Railroad helps those at risk of prosecution around the world, your donations to the emergency response fund can be matched to have double the impact today.
Link in 🧵

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 19d

Yesterday we sent some creators confusing emails with poor formatting regarding rewards earned in July. The amount listed in the email was cents received, not the dollar amount (so "123 earned in July" is actually "$1.23 earned in July") Sorry for the confusion!

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 21d

⭐ Featured projects ⭐

🌑 Ride your own Phantom Jockeys!
🧻 Add some life and whimsy to your interiors!
🎨 Give your favorite catchable creatures a classic look!
🌳 Explore your world with a new level of Detail!

...and a few more

https://modrinth.com/collection/3veB49pT

A Minecraft character is riding on top of a phantom while holding a stick

A bathroom with a toilet, toilet paper holder, shower, laundry machine, and a vanity area.

The Cobblemon Blastoise, Wartortle, and Squirtle stand in a spruce room.

An image cut into sections. Each of the sections has a different image all displaying different parts of the same Minecraft biome. Amethyst clusters are retextured, and the leaves on the birth trees are yellow. There is a diamond pickaxe and sword on screen. “CAELESTI” is in red text over the image.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 26d

⭐ Featured projects ⭐

⛰️ Reach the peak, in Minecraft!
🪐 Explore a galaxy far, far away!
⚓ Bring the objects in your world to life!
🍂 Welcome the fall season with a GUI overhaul!
...and a few more

https://modrinth.com/collection/pzeLc0H0

A skeleton sitting on a sand mountain surrounded by dropped items such as a piton, Bing Bong, a med kit, and a lollipop.

A desert city with players walking around and there are multiple space ships.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 28d

https://modrinth.com/collection/VEgGDFFE

Featured - Vol. 38 - Collection

Featured projects for the week of September 8, 2025.

modrinth.com

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 28d

Last week's featured projects had some great sci-fi mods you don't want to miss!

🛸 Evolve and transform with your own alien omnitrix!
🔫 Rain glorious destruction from the heavens!
🚀 Create and pilot custom combat-ready starships!
🐦 Bring total Mayhem to your Minecraft world!

A red alien with green clothes on holding a rock over their head.

A Minecraft landscape is unnaturally dark as laser orbs fall from the sky, creating streaks of bright light.

A view of the game Minecraft from the cockpit of a space ship while firing lasers at obsidian pillars over an island made of stone or "the end island".

A Bird shaped mech stands over a Minecraft landscape

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Sep 12

Repost because a couple things didn't work right!

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Sep 12

⭐ Featured projects ⭐

🧟 Defend your lawn in a recreation of a nostalgic classic!
🐇 Open your ears and eyes to a new look for Minecraft!
🐸 Hold a frog when something is out of reach!
💘 Befriend fun and adventurous anime characters!

https://modrinth.com/collection/VEgGDFFE

Creatures sitting on the roof of a building. The zombies are standing in front of a group of plants that are standing on grass.

A birch forest with flowers on the ground. The birch trees have orange leaves.

Three characters standing together. The character on the left is waving, the character in the middle is pointing, and the character on the right has their arms spread out.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Sep 11

an edited version of the original image, replacing "Asia Launch" with "We Nuked Singapore"

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Sep 9

🌏 Modrinth Servers is now available in Asia!
We've just launched our latest datacenter for Modrinth Servers in 🇸🇬 Singapore!
Purchase a server here: https://modrinth.gg/

More info: https://modrinth.com/news/article/modrinth-servers-asia

A view of the globe with a purple dot centered on Singapore, with the text "Modrinth Servers: Asia Launch"

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Sep 7

⭐ Featured projects ⭐

⚔️ Totally transform your world into a roguelike unlike any other!
✨ Bring your inventory to life with dynamic particles!
💡 Decorate with unique and morbid style!
🧟 Power up the mobs in your world!
...and a few more

https://modrinth.com/collection/QOB9LPqO

The sun rises over a field of flowers. On the left side of the screenshot, there is a large black dome with constellations around the outside of it.

Various items in a Minecraft 3x3 inventory showing off related particles when picked up out of the inventory.

Four lanterns with heads in them on a spruce table in front of a pale oak background.

An underground cobblestone dungeon with two skeletons. One of the skeletons on the left is normal, and the skeleton on the right who is facing the camera is tall with larger bones and has armor.

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ModFest @modfest.net · Aug 19

Toybox is now jam-complete with 63 mods submitted!

You can browse them below, or check them out at the showcase on Sep. 6!

modfest.net/toybox/submi...

p.s. - check quote replies for previews of specific cool mods!

ModFest @modfest.net · Jul 28

Bring out your dollhouse and DOUSE IT IN TOY CARS because it's time for ModFest: Toybox!

ModFest is our regular no-pressure Minecraft modding and building jam, this time with the theme: Make ONE "toy"!

What's a toy? What's a ModFest? your questions answered (and more raised) at modfest.net/toybox

A 3D promotional poster for ModFest: Toybox with an "M" letter block in the center. The text reads: ModFest: Toybox. No Prizes, No Pressure, Just Make Mods! Jam Aug. 2 - 18, 2025. Showcase Sep. 6 - 22, 2025. modfest.net/toybox.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Sep 4

Here at Modrinth, we're doing awazing work, every single day.

( https://github.com/modrinth/code/pull/4336 )

A "git" differential, showing a typo fix from "staying up-to-date with awazing mods" to "staying up-to-date with amazing mods"

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Sep 1

Modrinth is now getting back to working towards localization for the Modrinth App and website. In order to accomplish that, though, we'll need your help to translate everything to your language. Learn more and start translating: https://crowdin.com/project/modrinth-platform

Modrinth Platform — Translation Project on Crowdin

Help us translate Modrinth Platform and bring it to the world!

crowdin.com

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Aug 29

⭐ Featured projects ⭐

⛰️ Get underground with YUNG’s Better Caves!
🏆 Battle your friends on a handcrafted island!
🏺 Create unique custom pots!
🌀 Discover a familiar yet fresh new dimension!
...and a few more

https://modrinth.com/collection/7RA90XpA

New cave generation from YUNG’s Better Caves. A lava pool in the foreground with water pouring into it from the top. There are several other lava pools in the distance. In the darkness, you can see various hostile mobs and ores.

A circular arena made of bright walls, and a blue circle walkway surrounding the middle of the arena. In the very center of the arena is a pokeball built into the floor.

Three menus with pots in them. Shows customizable pots. Left most pot is a cube with no opening. Middle is a normal pot. Right most is a small version of the pot.

A field with water in the distance. In the foreground, a blue portal shaped like a nether portal, with blue swirls for the portal.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Aug 26

server management protocol 👍🐸👍👍 will be useful

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Aug 26

⭐ Featured projects ⭐

🌲 Cover your world in giant trees!
🗡️ Summon miniature creatures, and watch them fight!
🪲 Uncover a variety of new fauna!
🪨 Discover magic, madness, lead poisoning, runes and ruins!
...and a few others

https://modrinth.com/collection/20osG2HL

A Minecraft scene of a large tree shading a landscape and building to the right, the branches sag to touch the top of a rocky plateau.

A Minecraft scene of an arena with different factions of small miniaturized mythical creatures in combat.

A Minecraft scene with a villager in a wagon-like structure, to the side of the structure is a large beetle like creature wearing a saddle and a chest.

A spell being made using the cool Spellmaker UI.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Aug 23

We are sponsoring an awesome community ice boat racing event hosted by our friends at Boatrace World Championship!

Get ready to compete in the Modrinth Servers Cup on September 7th, 8pm UTC.

Winners get a Modrinth Server or free Modrinth+. More info: https://discord.gg/modrinth

A banner advertising the Modrinth Servers Cup, with a picture of a boat race track. Boatrace World Championship x Modrinth Servers: Race in the Modrinth Servers Cup on Sunday 7th September! 1st place gets 3 months free of Modrinth Servers. 2nd and 3rd place get 3 months free of Modrinth+. 8:00pm UTC, 4:00pm Eastern Time, 1:00pm Pacific Time.

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Modrinth @modrinth.com · Aug 21

⭐ Featured projects ⭐

📝 Create and complete tasks for your friends!
⚔️ Go beyond your limits in this Minecraft roguelite!
🪄 Mix and match magical spells!
🔎 Add mystery to EVERY block and item!
...and a few others

https://modrinth.com/collection/aYpFFU3w

A notice board in a Minecraft superflat world. It is made of wood, has a small overhang, and a few notes posted onto the board.

Several different classes to select from. There is a Knight, dressed in armor, holding a shield. There is a Slayer, wearing lighter armor and holding two swords. There is an Apothecary wearing lighter clothing and holding two items. There is a Hunter, holding a bow.

An Allay casting a spell on a Vex. The Allay is holding a wand and there are particles emitting from it. The background consists of stars and a large crescent moon.

A screenshot from in-game, using the Item Discovery Minecraft mod. The player has discovered a new block, the grass block, and it is prompting them to name it. They have called it “grassy dirt”.

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