10 best Minecraft 1.21 mods

Mods are among the coolest features inMinecraft Java Edition. They are bits of custom content created by the community that can be injected into the game to introduce new features, structures, systems, and mobs. There are thousands of them available for the sandbox title, making it difficult to know which ones are worth using.

Detailed below are 10 of the best mods for 1.21, along with what makes them so great to use.

Note: This list is subjective and solely reflects the opinions of the writer

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10 of the best Minecraft 1.21 mods

1) Terralith

Terralith is a mod focused on updating and overhauling the Minecraft overworld with new biomes and terrain generation. It is perfect for players who are bored of the vanilla biomes and terrain in the game.

Terralith adds almost a hundred new biomes to the overworld, ranging from the fantastic to the realistic. There are also new types of terrain that can be generated, including canyons, shattered biomes, and float islands.

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2) Xaero's Minimap

A customized Xaero's minimap (Image via Mojang)

Xaero's Minimap is one of several mapping mods out there. It adds an HUD element to the game that shows players the surrounding environment and coordinates, as well as saved waypoints.

Xaero's Minimap also has tons of customization options, such as shape, size, and the ability to track nearby Minecraft mobs, making it even more useful.

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3) Repurposed Structures

A rare overworld city (Image via Mojang)

Repurposed Structures is one of the most well-known Minecraft structure mods. It adds variety to the places that can be generated across worlds by making it so that structures can generate in the shape of other structures.

This results in strange and interesting combinations, like monster rooms that resemble mansions or villages that resemble end cities.

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4) Biomes O' Plenty

Biomes O' Plenty is one of the best biome mods out there (Image via Forstride)

Biomes O' Plenty is another amazing mod focused on adding biomes to Minecraft. There are new biomes for all three different dimensions, as well as plants, flowers, trees, and blocks.

This ensures that these new additions don't feel empty and instead fit right in beside any of the game's best biomes.

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5) Geophilic

An updated Geophilic birch forest (Image via Mojang)

Geophilic is another biome mod, similar to the others mentioned. Rather than adding new regions to the game, Geophilic instead focuses on improving the different vanilla biomes found throughout Minecraft's best seeds.

Many of these changes have come straight from concept art discarded by Mojang, such as the sketches surrounding the birch forests originally intended to be part of 1.19.

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6) Waystones

A waypoint within a village (Image via Mojang)

The Waystones mod is simple but incredibly useful. It introduces items called waystones that can be crafted and found within structures such as Minecraft villages.

These items are added to a waystone network when placed, which players can teleport between using XP. Having access to fast travel is incredibly handy in a survival playthrough.

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7) TrimsEffects

Bolt armor trim giving the strength effect (Image via Mojang)

TrimsEffects updates Minecraft's armor smithing to give different armor trim patterns unique buffs. For example, using the coast armor trim will grant players water breathing, while using the wild trim will grant them the hero of the village buff.

This mod is great for players who wish that armor trims were more than just aesthetic items. It offers fair and balanced buffs that are thematic for each trim.

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8) Essential Mod

Essential is an interesting mod. It doesn't provide new in-game content but instead adds more utility to how the game runs.

Essential provides a way to host servers from within the game, totally for free. There's also a new friends list with a messaging client, as well as custom emotes and even the ability to switch between accounts in-game.

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9) Tom's Simple Storage Mod

Tom's Simple Storage Mod, also known as Tom's for short, is a storage mod that makes it much easier to store large numbers of items.

Chests and other inventories can be connected, allowing players to access huge lists of items from a single interface. Storages can also be upgraded to hold more items or increase the stack capacity, revolutionizing survival base storage rooms.

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10) BetterF3

The mod's better debug screen (Image via Mojang)

BetterF3 is a mod focused on making Minecraft's debug screen more useful and easier to read. Different information is grouped and colored to distinguish it, adding a huge amount of clarity.

The information provided, positions, grouping, and colors of the menu can also be customized, making this mod even better for getting the most out of the debug screen.