Looking for Forge mods for Minecraft 1.21.8? MineUniverse ranks 2,255 of them by downloads, led by Mouse Tweaks, GeckoLib and Controlling.
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
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!
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.
Adds a multiblock kitchen that shows recipes you can make with what ingredients you have available.
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib adds lots of basic implementations that allow for similar code between different Minecraft versions!
Config Lib makes dealing with config files just a bit easier.
Allows you to rotate, balance or clear crafting grids by the press of a button.
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
Structures – Structures & Exploration
An extensive mod that adds new structures to your game. updated Oct 14, 2026
Structures+ — Better Structures & Exploration
A comprehensive mod that adds beautiful structures to your game updated Oct 14, 2026
Hassium
Hassium is a high-performance Minecraft optimization mod providing efficient storage, network optimization, chunk caching, beyond-view rend… updated Oct 16, 2026
Elemental Ascendance
Master 8 primal elements, 72 cinematic spells, 28 fusions, and enjoy the power of elements updated Oct 14, 2026
ResourcePackCached
Keeps server resource packs loaded, so they don't need to be reloaded when you rejoin. updated Oct 14, 2026
Clumps and JourneyMap round out the top five. Within the past 30 days, 158 of these mods (7%) were updated for 1.21.8. The latest updates include SuperMartijn642's Core Lib, Structures – Structures & Exploration and Structures+ — Better Structures & Exploration. Altogether, these Forge mods have more than 17.2 billion downloads.
Released on July 17, 2025, Minecraft 1.21.8 has 194 more Forge mods than 1.21.7 (2,061) and 382 more than 1.21.9 (1,873).
Overall, 24% of the 9,583 mods for 1.21.8 are Forge mods. If you use another loader, Minecraft 1.21.8 also offers mods for NeoForge (6,665), Fabric (6,613) and Quilt (1,765).
The most downloaded Forge mods for Minecraft 1.21.8 on MineUniverse are Mouse Tweaks, GeckoLib, Controlling, Clumps and JourneyMap.
There are 2,255 Forge mods for Minecraft 1.21.8 on MineUniverse. Within the past 30 days, 158 of these mods (7%) were updated for 1.21.8. Together they have more than 17.2 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.
NeoForge has more: 6,665 mods for Minecraft 1.21.8 support NeoForge, compared with 2,255 for Forge.
Yes. All 2,255 Forge mods for Minecraft 1.21.8 on MineUniverse are free to download.
