PolyCraft
A server-side Fabric modpack for a richer vanilla+ multiplayer experience — vanilla clients can join, no client install required.
Built for small friend groups and long-term SMP worlds, with a stronger focus on exploration, cozy progression, and lots of subtle quality-of-life upgrades.
✨ What's included
World generation & biomes Blooming Biosphere, Geophilic, This Rocks!, Incendium, Nullscape, Subsurface, Unnamed Sea — the Overworld, Nether, and End all get more variety without losing the vanilla feel.
Structures & exploration ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village, Towns and Towers, Explorify, Dungeons+, Moog's Voyager Structures, Philip's Ruins — more villages, ruins, and dungeons to discover on every trip.
Vanilla+ mobs & immersion Friends & Foes, Tom's Mobs, More Mobs, Spawn Animations, danse - player gestures, mini-vfx — more life, more personality, and better moment-to-moment immersion.
Building, storage & progression Armor Stand Editor, Jake's Build Tools, Storage Pots, Backpacks!, Naturally Trimmed, Trimmable Tools, Audaki Cart Engine — better tools for building, organizing, traveling, and showing off your style.
Food & farming Farmer's Delight, Rustic Delight, Brewery, Gone Fishing, More Delight — cooking, farming, brewing, and fishing all feel more rewarding.
Gameplay additions & small vanilla tweaks Diversity, Glide Away, Down But Not Out, Tax Free Levels, Bottle Your Xp, Dismount Entity, Grabby Mobs, Snowballs Freeze Mobs, Spiders Produce Webs, Villager Names, Vanilla Pings, Storage Pots — lots of subtle upgrades that make the server feel smoother, livelier, and easier to play without drifting away from vanilla.
Server quality of life Keep your items with Universal Graves, trade with Universal Shops, skip night with SleepWarp, move chests with Haul, sort chests with Inventory Sorter, and sit anywhere with FSit.
Performance Lithium, FerriteCore, ServerCore, Noisium, Concurrent Chunk Management Engine, Very Many Players, Alternate Current, Structure Layout Optimizer, Slumber — keeps exploration, worldgen, and multiplayer performance smooth under load.
⚡ Quick install
- Download the latest PolyCraft release.
- Start it like a normal Fabric server, accept EULA, and join with a vanilla client.
🧩 Recommended client mods
You don't need anything on the client, but these make the experience noticeably better:
- REI (Roughly Enough Items) — browse all items and recipes with ease
- Polydex — server-side recipe viewer integration
- Polydex2REI — connects Polydex recipes directly into REI
- Inventory Sorter — quick inventory and chest sorting hotkeys
- Packet Fixer — fixes packet size issues with modded server content
A dedicated client companion pack may come later with these preconfigured.
❓ FAQ
- Do players need to install mods? No — vanilla clients can join.
📋 Compatibility
- Minecraft 1.21.11 on Fabric
- Fully server-side — vanilla clients can join without installing anything
- Should work well alongside most client QoL mods
