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Essentials

Essentials expands automation and redstone in a balanced and vanilla style.

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Downloads on Modrinth
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Updated
July 7, 2026Jul 7
Published
in 2023
Chicken Farm — A simple chicken farm, automated with Essentials. Item Shifters with Item Chutes move eggs to the top of the farm, where eggs are sorted out by a Sorting Hopper and Item Filter to be hatched into more chickens. Feathers and chicken go to a chest · swipe

At a glance

Runs on NeoForge and Forge
For Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.21–1.21.11 …
Needed in the game and on the server
Latest version — 1.21.1-2.17.6 from July 7, 2026
License MIT — free
Where it's needed
In gamerequiredOn serverrequired

Needed both in the game and on the server

Game versions1.19.4, 1.20.1, 1.21–1.21.11 …

Essentials

Essentials expands automation and redstone in a balanced and vanilla style. While there's full ingame documentation with Patchouli installed (strongly recommended), here's a few highlights:

  • A single block chest that remembers item types for each slot
  • Farmland that self-replants
  • Simple and cheap item transport and sorting
  • Single-block redstone circuits that can do logic or math
  • And more...

Essentials has no worldgen, no balance destroying features, has ingame documentation, and is highly configurable. It can be dropped into a modpack without issues.

Spotlight

Full Tutorial

Previous versions are on the CurseForge page.

Minecraft Mod Reviews

FAQ

How to install Essentials?

Install NeoForge for your Minecraft version, download Essentials for the same version and loader, put the file into the mods folder and launch the game with the loader profile.

Which Minecraft versions does Essentials support?

Essentials has builds for Minecraft 1.19.1–1.19.2, 1.19.4, 1.20.1, 1.21–1.21.11 ….

Is Essentials needed on the server?

Needed in the game and on the server

License and source
MIT Licensefree to use and share with credit to the author
Original — Modrinth↗Files unchanged, verified with SHA-512Is this your mod? For rights holders

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