5 best Minecraft mods for better oceans

Minecraft's ocean biomes have come a long way from their original forms, but some players feel as though they could still be better. It's for this exact reason that the modding community has stepped up, presenting a plethora of different modifications that can allow fans to improve their oceans in some form or fashion, from structures to the presentation of the ocean itself to mobs and more.

Taking all of that into consideration, it's worth examining some of the best Minecraft mods for improving oceans. These mods vary in how they make oceans better, but they all have something to contribute for players willing to download them.

NOTE: This article is subjective and reflects the writer's opinion.

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Five of the best Minecraft mods for improving ocean biomes

1) YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments

This Minecraft mod makes ocean monuments both more intriguing and rewarding to visit. (Image via Refresh Studios/Modrinth || Mojang Studios)

Minecraft's ocean monuments aren't particularly bad in-game structures, but there's room for improvement, which is exactly what YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments accomplishes. While ocean monuments contain the same mobs in this mod, it overhauls the structure from an aquatic temple-like edifice into what feels like a sprawling undersea metropolis filled with loot for the taking.

If taking on ocean monuments in vanilla has gotten old, this may be the first mod players should look to.

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2) Hopo Better Underwater Ruins

Make ocean ruins feel a bit more robust with this Minecraft mod. (Image via Hoponopono/Modrinth || Mojang Studios)

Minecraft's ocean ruins can feel a little barebones at times. Even if that's what Mojang's goal was from the beginning, visiting these structures doesn't always feel exciting or even worth the trip, which is something Hopo Better Underwater Ruins fixes quite effectively. This mod reforms underwater ruins into more robust structures complete with towers, abandoned buildings, and themed rooms.

Hopo Better Underwater Ruins transforms underwater ruins into forgotten aquatic villages at their core, something much more than a few clusters of blocks and some drowned mobs and scattered treasure chests in Minecraft.

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3) Ocean's Delight

Ocean's Delight provides Minecraft players with extra culinary treats from the sea. (Image via NexusBliss/YouTube || Mojang Studios)

While this mod requires the installation of the Farmer's Delight mod as well, it still might be worth a player's time. Ocean's Delight introduces multiple tasty dishes that can be cooked by using mobs and blocks from the ocean beyond the usual fish that the vanilla game offers. The mod introduces a plethora of dishes including guardian soup, cabbage-wrapped elder guardian, and more.

Harvest tentacles from squids, craft a guardian-themed soup pot and flex your culinary skills seamlessly with the Farmer's Delight mod courtesy of Ocean's Delight, a fantastic supplementation to an already great food mod.

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4) Hybrid Aquatic

A vampire squid swimming in the Hybrid Aquatic Minecraft mod. (Image via Hybridlabs.mc/Modrinth || Mojang Studios)

Although Hybrid Aquatic isn't a mod focused solely on oceans, it improves them incredibly well all the same. In addition to improving rivers and lakes and introducing underwater caves, Hybrid Aquatic revamps oceans by introducing new blocks and mobs to better emulate an authentic aquatic ecosystem to make oceans and other underwater settings feel much more alive.

In Hybrid Aquatic, players can find over 30 new fish including sharks, but also other forms of aquatic wildlife like sea anemones, hermit and fiddler crabs, vampire squids, moon jellyfish, and much, much more. If fans want to make their oceans more lively, this mod is an excellent way to accomplish that.

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5) Physics Mod

The Physics Mod accomplishes a lot in Minecraft but also provides incredible ocean animations. (Image via AsianHalfSquat/YouTube || Mojang Studios)

Fans who want to check out the ocean effects of the beloved Physics Mod will need to donate to the developer, but the effects are so good that they may be worth the money in addition to the massive physics overhaul to the game that this mod provides. The Pro Version of the Physics Mod offered via donation introduces incredibly realistic aquatic wave and tide physics.

While plenty of mods and other resources have simulated oceanic waves and tides, the Physics Mod creates effects that feel almost as though they came from a different game entirely. It might not sound like that would be a natural fit for Mojang's sandbox title, but it certainly is.