🌿 Core Trails

The essence of Hidden Trails - distilled into a lightweight, challenging experience.

Core Trails is a survival-focused modpack that includes our custom-made mods alongside performance, visual, and shader upgrades. It strips Minecraft down to its toughest and most rewarding essentials, while keeping the game optimized and beautiful.

Below you’ll find the core mods that shape the gameplay:

⚔️ Durability Rarity

Not all gear is created equal. Every crafted, looted, or rewarded item receives a random rarity tier that affects its durability, from brittle junk to legendary tools. Adds variety, challenge, and excitement to every piece of gear you find.

⛏️ Reduced Ores

Ores are no longer everywhere. This mod reduces ore generation significantly, making mining and exploration more rewarding. Every diamond, iron vein, or gold ore you uncover feels like a true discovery.

📦 Reduced Loot

Loot in naturally generated chests is less frequent and less abundant. Structures remain exciting to explore, but you’ll need to rely on your survival skills instead of overflowing treasure rooms.

❌ Mending Remover

The powerful Mending enchantment is completely removed. Tools and armor are now finite resources, forcing players to think carefully about gear rarity, durability, and crafting.

💀 Death’s Cut

Every death has a cost. This mod introduces configurable penalties when you die, from losing items to trimming your experience or health. It adds a meaningful risk to exploration and combat, making every choice in survival count.

👣 Left Behind

When you die, you leave more than just items, you leave a trace. Left Behind marks your last moments in the world, letting you track your past deaths or revisit the remnants of your journey.

🧱 Builder’s Trowels

A builder’s best companion. Craft different trowels that automatically pick random blocks from your hotbar for rapid and creative building. Higher-tier trowels place blocks faster and can even ignore blacklisted materials for more control.

✨ Other Features

Performance and optimization mods like Clumps, Entity Culling, ImmediatelyFast and more. Visual improvements with BSL, Complementary, Solas, and other shaders. (work in progress) Two official Hidden Trails Visual Packs for a fresh, immersive look. (work in progress) Lightweight QoL mods such as Jade, AppleSkin, Mouse Tweaks and more.

Core Trails is the foundation of the Hidden Trails experience - focused, balanced, and survival-driven. Can you endure the trail when only the essentials remain?

🤝 Integration

Originally developed as part of the Hidden Trails modpack, Durability Rarity is now fully standalone and ready to be added to your own pack or server setup. https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/hidden-trails

🖥️ Start Your Own Hidden Trails Server

Ready to explore with friends or run your own server? Thanks to our official server partner Wabbanode, you can host Hidden Trails with just a few clicks. Click the link below to jump straight to a pre-configured setup for the modpack. https://www.wabbanode.com/affiliate/hiddentrails

💸 Use code "HiddenTrails" at checkout for 25% off your first month!

Whether you're building with friends or taking on the world together — Wabbanode makes it easy, fast, and reliable.