MineUniverse lists 2,924 Forge mods for Minecraft 1.21, ranked by total downloads. Together they have more than 24.5 billion downloads.
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Nature's Compass is an item that allows you to locate biomes anywhere in the world.
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which help you find the locations …
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Comes in 16 different colors!
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
Adds a fullscreen worldmap which shows you what you have explored in the world. Can work together with Xaero's Minimap.
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes updated Oct 14, 2026
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods. updated Oct 14, 2026
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib adds lots of basic implementations that allow for similar code between different Minecraft versions! updated Oct 14, 2026
Stylecolonies
A set of blueprint sets for the Minecolonies Mod updated Oct 14, 2026
Laser Bridges & Doors [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]
Adds laser sources that create laser platforms and doors when powered updated Oct 14, 2026
Biome Spawn Point
🌲 Allows specifying which biome players will spawn in on new world creation. updated Oct 14, 2026
The most downloaded Forge mods for 1.21 are Just Enough Items (JEI), Mouse Tweaks and Bookshelf, followed by GeckoLib and Controlling. In the last 30 days, 300 of them (10%) received a new file for 1.21. Recent updates include Collective, SuperMartijn642's Core Lib and Stylecolonies.
Forge mods make up 30% of all 9,832 mods for 1.21. For comparison, Minecraft 1.21 also has mods for Fabric (7,013), NeoForge (5,910) and Quilt (2,168).
Minecraft 1.21 was released on June 13, 2024. Compared with nearby versions, 1.21 has 415 more Forge mods than 1.20.6 (2,509) and 1,649 fewer than 1.21.1 (4,573).
Ranked by downloads on MineUniverse, the top five Forge mods for Minecraft 1.21 are Just Enough Items (JEI), Mouse Tweaks, Bookshelf, GeckoLib and Controlling.
MineUniverse lists 2,924 Forge mods for Minecraft 1.21. In the last 30 days, 300 of them (10%) received a new file for 1.21. Together they have more than 24.5 billion downloads.
1. Install Minecraft Forge for your Minecraft version with the official installer (files.minecraftforge.net). 2. Download the mod file (.jar) built for Forge and your Minecraft version. 3. Put the .jar into the mods folder of your Minecraft directory (.minecraft/mods). 4. Start Minecraft with the Forge profile selected in the launcher.
Fabric has more: 7,013 mods for Minecraft 1.21 support Fabric, compared with 2,924 for Forge.
Yes. All 2,924 Forge mods for Minecraft 1.21 on MineUniverse are free to download.
