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LessGrind+

LessGrind+

A vanilla+ mod pack aimed at improving basic game play mechanics that reduce unnecessary grind and make the game feel more interesting.

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Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21.11

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Supported environments

Client and server

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Licensed MIT
Published 3 months ago
LG+ Less Grind More Adventure

A Vanilla+ modpack with three goals in mind.

  1. Reduce needless grind in Minecraft. It isnt a fast track to the end game, but a reduction to some tedious repetitive aspects of the game that get annoying.
  2. Extra adventure. Addition structures, biomes, dimensions and resource packs that add to the experience.
  3. Keep that classic Minecraft feel. We know its modded, but this could be in the base game.

All the mods, data packs and resource packs will be listed in the below categories explaining their purpose for being included. You can find information for Previous Versions at the github page.

Current Version 1.0.5+1.21.11 for Minecraft 1.21.11

Reduce Needless Grind

Gameplay Changes

  • Quick Right-Click
    Place, use, break. Place, use... break. Place... use.. break. Tired of having to Place, use then break things out of your inventory? Well, now you can right click into the air with your crafting bench to use it! No placing necessary!
    More Blocks!This also words with:
    • Beds
    • Cartography Tables
    • Crafting Tables
    • Ender Chests
    • Grindstones
    • Shulker Boxes
    • Smithing Tables
    • Stonecutters
  • Gravestones
    Dying sucks, losing your items sucks worse and "keep inventory" is cheating. The solution, graves! Now when you fail to survive, a grave will spawn to keep your items safe for you to find them. You can also craft decorative ones for your pet graveyard.
  • Simple Voice Chat
    Communicate with each other right from inside minecraft! Location based voice communication is now possible.
    More Info & KeybindsPress the V to configure Voice chat. You can setup push to talk or voice detection and also configure the volumes for individual players.
    Press the X key to Mute/Unmute.
    Press the G to create and join groups. Groups allows you to communicate without needing to be in range of each other.
  • Zoomify
    Yep... lets you see things further away with the C key. Get it "c"...
  • LambDynamicLights - Dynamic Lights
    Do we really always need to place down torches to see, and waste coal? Not with this mod! Just hold a torch or other glowy items in your hand!
  • Fortunate Ancient Debris
    What's the point in a fortune pickaxe if it doesn't work when gathering netherite? Well... now it does.
    More Info Ancient Debris now drops netherite scrap, how much it drops is affected by the fortune enchantment. You can still get the Ancient Debri's block with silk touch. **For Balance:** Because fortune now works, it will take 5 netherite scrap to make one ingot of netherite instead of 4, and you do not get XP from mining Ancient Debris.
  • Trade Cycling
    Everyone rolls villagers to get the trades that they want. Placing, breaking and re-placing their workstations is a hassle. Now there is a button that does it for you!
    More InfoWhen you trade with a villager that nobody has traded with before there is now a button that rolls their trades. This is so you don't have to keep placing and breaking workstation blocks. Once you trade with the villager, the button goes away.
  • Scaffolding Drops Nearby
    Do you hate that when you break scaffolding you have to run around and pick it all up? Well now, when you break it all the blocks will drop right where you are! No more running around playing "find the scaffolding".
  • Boat Item View
    Ever try and follow a map or compass while in a boat? Well, now you can continue to see them while the boat is moving! Congrats, you unlocked "holding things in your lap".
  • No Animal Tempt Delay
    Animals are no longer picky about their food! They will always follow you when you hold it, no more waiting for that cow to examine the wheat before deciding to follow you.
  • GravelMiner
    Strip mining and run into a section of gravel. Tired of using the "break block and quickly place torch" trick? Now breaking a block under falling gravel (or sand) will instantly break all the falling gravel (or sand) above it! No torch required.
  • AppleSkin
    Makes the food related HUD show you more information such as your saturation level, and how much hunger a piece of food will fill up.
  • Better Spawner Control
    Is there enough light to keep this mob spawner turned off? Well, guess no more! Places 5 torches on the spawner, four sides and the top, will disable the spawner. No more guess work so you can make your mob farms in peace.
  • Harvest With Ease
    Farming is difficult. First you have to break the crop.. then replant. What if there was a tool to make this easier? Your hoe is now upgraded! Right clicking a crop with a hoe will now harvest and replant the crop for you!
    More InfoThe better your hoe the faster you can farm!
    • Wood, stone and copper will harvest and replant 1 crop at a time.
    • Iron will harvest and replant in a 3x3 area.
    • Gold will harvest and replant in a 5x5 area.
    • Diamond will harvest and replant in a 7x7 area.
    • Netherite will harvest and replant in a 9x9 area.
    All the harvest crops will come to you automatically!
  • No Feather Trample
    Farming is difficult as it, why make walking hard? Now, if your boots have Feather Falling, you can no longer trample your crops!
  • Health Enchantment
    Want your late game gear to make you healthier? Well, now with this enchantment your gear can give you more hearts!
  • Cubes Without Borders
    Borderless fullscreen in minecraft. Now, when you tab to chrome to look up that cool restone tutorial, your full-screen minecraft window will still be visible!
  • Better Statistics Screen
    Now it's easier to find out how many times creepers have snuck up on you!
  • Anti Enderman Grief Now they can't pickup blocks and destroy the environment.
  • Cauldron Concrete Powder Making concrete from powder sucks. Now just fill a cauldron will water and drop the concrete powder (in item form) into the cauldron. It will turn into concrete!
  • Cauldron Mud Nobody has time to stand around right clicking dirt with water bottles. Just fill a cauldron with water, and drop the dirt (in item form) into the cauldron. Now you have mud.
  • Double Shulker Shell Drops Shulkers have two shells... now they always drop both.
  • Dragon Drops Elytra Just like it sounds.
  • Mini Blocks & Mini Blocks: Items Edition Take any block or item and put it in a stonecutter. Now you have a mini version of it to decorate with!
  • Just Mob Heads Now every mob has a chance to drop it's head when you kill it.
  • Cycle Paintings Want a specific painting? Place a painting on the wall, then right click it while holding another painting, to cycle through the options! No more place, breaking, placing, breaking...
  • Silent Mobs/Minecarts Captured Mobs too loud? Now if you use a nametag to name them "silent" they will stop making noise!

Crafting and Smelting Changes

  • Make Me Whole Again Stairs, slabs, walls and carpets can no be converted back into their full blocks!
  • Better Crafts: Dispenser Crafting Dispensers is annoying because of the bow, and .. dang I just made another stack of droppers. Well now! Put the dropper in the crafting grid with a bow, and you got a brand new dispenser!
  • Make a Dye Out Of It Why are different colored dye's so hard to get in minecraft? Well now mising colors works the same (or close enough) to the real world! Not only can you now make Glow Ink Sacs by combining Inc sacs with something glowy, you can now combine different dyes together, along with new sources of dye around the world! Full list of the recipe changes can be found on the Make a Dye Out Of It Wiki Page
  • Make Me Shapeless Craft items such as bread, paper and shulkerboxes in your 2x2 crafting grid.
  • Better Unpackables This could also go under inventory management. This allows certain blocks to be "unpacked" back into their components, such as turning packed ice back into ice, or Glowstone blocks back into Glowstone dust! For a list of all unpacking recipes visit the Better Unpackables Unpacking Recipes Wiki Page.
  • Nether Wart Blocks to Nether Warts This allows converting nether wart blocks into nether warts!
  • Craftable Horse Armor Now you can always protect your horse!
  • Better Craftables Some things in minecraft should just be craftable or smeltable! This mod adds a bunch of quality of life crafting and smelting recipes.
    View Recipes
    • Craftable Coral Blocks (Makes coral renewable by bonemealing the blocks to get the fans) & Bells
    • Craftable Gravel
    • Powered Rails from Copper! Gold is precious why waste it on slow minecarts.
    • Universal Dyeing: Any colored glass, wool or terracota can now be dyed into any other color. Hurray!
    • Smelt Raw Ore Blocks directly into a full block of the ore. Raw Iron Ore -> Iron Block. Blast furnaces are now useful!
    • Rotten Flesh now smelts into leather, it smells funny but gets the job done.
    • All Crafting Recipes
    • All Smelting Recipes

Inventory Management

  • Smart Copper Golem We love the little guys! But, they are normally so dumb and forgetful.. not anymore! Now they remember what items were in chests they have visited (for a time) and can share that information with other copper golems! (YAY! Teamwork). They can also sort similar items such as different colored wool into the same chest. Enjoy your new smarter but just as cute friends!
  • Mouse Tweaks
    Inventory management is a pain. This at least makes it a little more bearable. Using your scrollwheel while hovering over items, will now move them into and out of open inventories!
    More InfoBetter Right Mouse Button: Now if you are holding a stack of items, while the right mouse button is held down, if you drag over a slot multiple times, an item will be put there multiple times. Helps with putting recipes in crafting benches.
    Better Left Mouse Button: Now if you left click an item, and continue holding down left click while you drag your mouse across the inventory. Items of the same type will be picked up and added to the stack you picked up. If you hold down shift while dragging, items of the same type will be "shift clicked". Easily pickup and move items. If you hold down left mouse button without picking up and item, and hold down shift, every item you "drag over" will be "shift clicked".
  • ItemSwapper
    Doing a lot of building, with a lot of different blocks? Wish you could easily swap tools/weapons without having to open your inventory? Well now you can! Hold down the R key to open an interface that allow you to swith the block/tool/weapon in your hand from another in your inventory. With intuitive groups, stone blocks will show other stone like blocks in your inventory. Tools with show tools, etc.
  • Bundles Beyond
    Bundles are very useful! However, only being able to see the first 12 items in them... that isn't. Now you can see everything in the bundle. You're welcome.
  • Peek
    Placing down a shulker box to see what's in it is boring. Now you can however over it in the inventory! Also, why walk around opening a bunch of boxes to see what's in them, now an item or name is displayed on the box in the world, so you can get an idea of what's inside!
    More Info Not Just Shulker Boxes! You can also see how many bees are inside a bee nest, or view the coordinates of compases.
    The shulker box will display on it's top the item that you have the most of in the shulker box. No need to place signs or item frames in your storage system!
  • Sort It Out!
    Sorts your inventory, so you don't have to!
  • Inventory Totem
    Totem's of undying no longer need to be held in your hand to work! Now you can keep holding your pickaxe and your torches!
  • Stack Refill
    Placing a bunch of blocks and constantly needing to open the inventory to get more? Well not anymore! Once you use the last block, if more of it exists in your inventory it will automatically appear in your hand!
    More InfoThis also works to replace tools/weapons when they break, potions when you throw them and food when you eat. Now you can keep just the important things in your hotbar.
  • Bundle as Quiver
    Have different types of arrows? Or infinity and only need one? Why take up inventory space! If you have any arrows put them in bundles, you can use them with your bow or crossbow without having to take them out first!

Now.. Where is that again?

  • Xaero's World Map and Xaero's Minimap
    See what the world looks like around you, see where you died, find your dog and locate players.
    More InfoThere will be a circular minimap in the upper left hand corner to help you navigate! You can turn this on or off by pressing the Z key on your keyboard. Pressing the M key on the keyboard opens up the world map, allowing you to pan around and zoom in and out.
    By default the map will only show the location of death points, waypoints, players and mobs that are tameable like dogs... so you can remember where you sat them down.
  • Locator Heads
    The player locator bar is great... except that you can't tell whose dot belongs to who. Well... Now we put their heads on the bar! It's not morbid it's useful!
  • Death Locator
    Adds your recent death locations to the locator bar. Paired with the minimap, you will never forget the last place you failed to stay alive.
  • Locator Lodestones
    So... you use lodestones and compasses to keep track of locations. Now you have a bundle of compasses. Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to dig through them? Well now, if you carry them on you, they will all appear on your locator bar! Even from within bundles! Hold down tab.. and the name of the compass appears so you can see what it is!

New Useful Items

  • Jake's Build Tools
    Useful tools for building and exploration!
    More Info
    • Mining Helmet - A glowing hat that also protects the player from falling blocks and anvils!
    • Block Wrench - A tool that can rotate any rotatable block! Even ones with inventories!
    • Void Bundle - A bundle that deletes any item put inside it! The last item destroyed can be retrieved by right clicking with it in the player's hand!
    • Item Magnet - Attracts items in a 7 block radius towards the player when in their mainhand or offhand! Can also be used in item frames!
    • Experience Flask - A method of storing experience! Can be filled with experience and then smashed to get it back!
    • Tape Measure - A tool for measuring distances between blocks!
    • Rope Ladder - A new type of ladder that places ladders below it!
    • Trowel - Places blocks randomly from the player's hotbar, great for texturing!
    • Chisel - Replaces a block with the block in the slot to the right of it!
    • Hardhat - A snazzy hat that increases the player's reach by 2 and protects them from falling blocks and anvils!
    • Void Bucket - A bucket that destroys any liquid put inside of it!
    • Grass Starter - Can turn dirt into grass and vice versa!

    Visit the Wiki for more information.
    Note:Hammer, and Mob Bag are disabled on multiplayer.
  • Tree Axes By Juix
    Hate cutting down trees? Well, craft an axe with blocks instead of ingots to get an axe powerful enough to cut down the entire tree at once!
  • Hammers by Juix
    Digging tunnels, it's important but time consumming. Let these hammers help! Make a "pickaxe" with blocks instead of ingots, and now you can crush blocks in a 3x3 area. Who needs a tunnel bore, when you can be the tunnel bore!
  • Trading Post
    We all enslav... I mean employ... villagers. Walking around to each one to train takes up valuable time. Now with the Trading Post you can trade with all nearby villagers from one spot!
    More InfoVillagers must be within 24 blocks horizontally and 16 blocks vertically in order for their trades to show up in the trading post. When you trade with them, the XP from the trade will appear at the trading post.
  • Teleporters
    Ender pearl statis chambers are easy to build, however choosing which one to activate requires complicated redstone. Teleporters remove that grind.
  • Animal Feeding Trough
    Wish animals were smart enough to feed themselves? Well now they can! Put down a feeding trough, and fill it with food. Animals will eat and multiply on their own as long as the trough has food. Farming is now simpler than ever!
  • Invisible Frames
    Now item frames can be made invisible without commands! Allowing for decorating or organizing storage rooms. Simply right click on the item frame while sneaking.

Adventure!

Because It's Pretty

  • Scholar
    Books are now easier to write in, and format! Text can now be bold or italic. Books themselves can be dyed different colors!
  • Armor Statues
    Armor stands are now posable, can have arms and even be made invisible! Now this is decorating.
    More InfoShift right click an armor stand with an empty hand to open the interface. Now you can adjust the armorstand however you want! Pre-built poses also make it easy to quickly do things like, place an item on the ground or show off your cool sword that you got exploring the nether!

Terrain and Rendering Changes

  • Geophilic
    Couldn't decide if this went here or under adventure. It's a mod that modifies the vanilla terrain in subtle ways to give it more character while staying true to minecrafts roots.
  • Unnamed Desert
    Adds 8 structure types / 35 total variants to the desert and badlands biomes to enhance the feel of vanilla world generation. Again, could have also gone under adventure.
  • Unnamed Sea
    Adds 4 structure types / 16 total variants to the oceans and beach biomes to enhance the feel of vanilla world generation. Again, could have also gone under adventure.
  • Distant Horizons
    Creates and stores LOD's which are lower detailed terrain chunks. This allows the minecraft world to be visible much farther away, without turning your PC into a space heater!
    More InfoTerrain that is farther away will have lower detail than terrain close up. While you some things will be hard to make out, the general feel of the terrain is there making the world feel much bigger and allowing you to tell what biomes they are. This allows you to see way off in the distance without having to fully load all the minecraft chunks. Terrain is also cached on your computer so that you can see further than the server render distance.
  • [ETF] Entity Texture Features
    Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks.
  • [EMF] Entity Model Features
    Allows for custom entity models, which makes all the cool animations possible!
  • 3D Skin Layer's
    Makes skins look cleaner.

Resource Packs

  • Fresh Animations and Fresh Animations: Extensions
    Make the game feel more lively by overhauling the mob's with new looks and way better animations. Is that villager giving you the side eye... why yes, they can do that now.
  • Continuity
    Connected textures.
  • Recolourful Containers GUI + HUD
    Each container or useable block such as a crafting table now gets a makeover! Easily tell what you are interacting with.
  • Even Better Enchants
    Now it's possible to tell enchanted books apart when you buy them from villagers! Each enchantment get's it's own aesthetic book design.
  • Red Iron Golem Flowers Puts the red flowers back on the Iron Golem texture.
  • Lower Defaults (Shield & Fire) Shields and being on fire no longer takes up so much of your screen.
  • axy's Honey Note-ify Yuo can now tell when a bee hive is full of honey! The bees helpfully put up a stick note for you. It even has an explanation mark on it! Bee's are so helpful.
  • Redstone Tweaks A configurable resource pack that makes working with redstone easier!
    List of Default Changes
    • Sticky Piston Sides: The side of the sticky piston now has green goo, so you can tell if it's sticky even if there is a block attached to it.
    • Directional Hoppers: The top of hoppers now has a subtle arrow, so you can see which way they point without having to look at the bottom.
    • Directional Dispensors and Droppers: Now have an arrow on the side so you can tell which way they face.
    • Directional Observers: Now have an arrow on the side so you can tell which way they face.
    • Visual Note Block Pitch: Tells you what note the Note Block is set to on the side of it. Now it's easier to make music.
    • Redstone Signal Strength: The redstone now has a number indicating it's signal strength.
    • Various redstone components will have sections of them change or light up to indicate they are powered or doing something.
  • Stemtacular Orange Pumpkin and watermelon now have different stems so you can tell what you planted. The stems will also now connect to the side of the block, which makes more sense for the textures!
  • Vignette Removed Removes the black gradient around the edge of the screen and the red ting when you are near the world border.
  • Waxed Copper Indicators Now you can tell if your copper items are waxed just by looking at them in your inventory, a little honeycomb badge will be displayed on waxed items!

Resource Pack's for Mods

These packs are included so that tools, weapons and items added by mods or datapacks can display properly.

Make Minecraft go Vroom (Performance Mods)

  • Krypton
    Optimize minecrafts networking infastructure.
  • Sodium
    "Sodium is a powerful optimization mod for the Minecraft client, which greatly improves frame rates and micro-stutter, while fixing many graphical issues in Minecraft."
  • FerriteCore
    Help reduce minecrafts memory usage.
  • Particle Core
    Optimize how minecraft handles particles.
  • Alternate Current
    Makes minecrafts redstone more optimized. As a side affect, strange "location based" redstone quirks are remmoved. Meaning redstone always updates and functions as expected.
  • Entity Culling
    If you can't see it, the game shouldn't render it.
  • Immersive Optimization Better "tick scheduling" to increase performance by slowing down the tick-rate of entities not in line of site, or farther away.
  • Clumps
    XP orbs are everywhere. Too many of them creates lag. This clumps them together into bigger chunks for less lag.
  • Lithium
    Makes minecraft work better. More details on the mod page, it's really amazing!
  • Concurrent Chunk Management Engine
    Better chunk generation.
  • ModernFix-mVUS or ModernFix Depending on minecraft release. ModernFix is an all-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs in modern Minecraft versions.
  • ServerCore A mod that aims to optimize the minecraft server and works on both dedicated servers and singleplayer! Includes several patches & optimizations to improve performance and reduce lagspikes, which shouldn't make any noticeable changes during gameplay. There are also some additional features enabled that can heavily reduce lag, but have a slight impact on gameplay

Library and Helper Mods