A modpack that adds nothing.
Making minecraft smoother, more discoverable, and have the exact same amount of items since 2021.

Pack Features

No Items, No Blocks, All Service [Vanilla-Compatibility]

Tinkerer's Quilt is Vanilla Compatible - It doesn't add any new blocks items, or world features.

It's still a mixed-side modpack - it needs to be installed on both the client and any servers you connect to.

If you want to play with Tinkerer's Quilt's tweaks on servers with vanilla players, try Tinkerer's Silk.

A Playable Minecraft Wiki [Vanilla Quests]

Tinkerer's Quilt adds 166 quests that help players explore minecraft.
From basic game progression to niche mechanics like mechanisms, building furniture, and using beds as weapons.

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The Basics - Overworld, Nether, End

Quests: The Basics

Homesteading - Transport, Housing, Farming (Renewables), Workshopping (Mechanisms)

Quests: Homesteading

Self-Defense - Armaments, Challenges, Foes

Quests: Self-Defense

Exploration - Wanderer, Sightseer, Naturalist

Quests: Exploration

Relevant Mod	Summary
🛠️ Crunchy Crunchy Advancements	Removes advancements so you can focus on quests.

My Other Modpack Description Is A Quest [In-Game Documentation]

Tinkerer's Quilt has all the information you need to know about the pack in-game.

No wiki, nothing - you don't even need to read this whole description.

Most of the information is available in the Introduction Quest Category: Quests: Introduction

Relevant Mod	Summary
EMI	An advanced recipe book for learning how to craft and use any item.
What The Hell Is That?	Hold alt to see information on the block or mob you're looking at.
🛠️ PicoHUD	Hold alt to see your location, direction, and the in-game time.

Smooth As Butter [Game Rebalancing / QoL]

Tinkerer's Quilt focuses rebalancing on making the game accessible to more people, but also taking the sting out of frustrating parts of vanilla.

It's not just about making the game easier - with annoyances alleviated in death, movement, and equipment mechanics, more experienced players can crank the difficulty and have a blast!

Relevant Mod	Summary
Apathy	Mobs are neutral on easy difficulty, and will only attack you if provoked.
You're In Grave Danger	Leaves a grave on death with your items and XP that won't de-spawn.
🛠️ Tinkerer's Smithing	Repair, upgrade, and maintain your favourite tools.
Project: Save The Pets!	Prevents pet harm and adds a pet revival system.
Horse Buff	Improves and protects horses, making them easier to take out on adventures.
Reacharound	Build midair bridges without sneaking, and even downwards stairs.
Fabrication	A multitude of minor improvements, like automatic block pickup and crawling.
Noteable	Allows players to take in-game notes about their plans, locations to revisit, etc.
🛠️ Portable Crafting	Open the crafting table from your inventory.

Three Demons, Two Lizards, a Bug, and a Fish all walk into a Bar [Character Customization]

Tinkerer's Quilt Encourages player expression with better skins, origins, and more ways to build.

Relevant Mod	Summary
Ears	Skins with tails, horns, ears, claws, wings and more!
Fabric Tailor	Swap your skin in-game.
🛠️ Drogstyle	Change player name, color, and bio (e.g. pronouns) any time.
🛠️ Switchy	Swap between player profiles with names, skins, or even inventories!
Origins	Choose an Origin, with various traits and abilities.
🛠️ Origins Minus	Simple, unbalanced, expressive origins that don't interrupt vanilla.
🛠️ Tinkerer's Statures	Choose your height and size with origins!
Presence Footsteps	Footstep audio redone - allows changing footstep gait for quadrupeds/etc.
Styled Chat	Discord-like chat and emoji markdown. Type `:` and press tab!
Fabrication	A huge tweak mod, includes hiding armor and improvements for minecart networks.
Carpet	Many server tweaks, including mechanism and renewable expansions.

Pretty Pretty [Visuals]

Tinkerer's Quilt is just as opinionated about visuals as it is about everything else - it includes various visual tweaks and improvements for clarity, performance, and often just plain aesthetic!

In addition to the below, Tinkerer's Quilt has support for the majority of optifine-format resource packs, including things like connected textures and custom skyboxes, thanks to optifine alternative mods made by the community.

Relevant Mod	Summary
Vanilla Tweaks	Decaying tools, less obtrusive shields and fire, and minor texture changes.
Sodium	Modern-day holy grail of client performance mods.
Iris	Allows using shaders like Complementary, Prismarine, and Super Duper Vanilla
Xali's Enchanted Books	Unique textures for enchanted books.
Sully's Peeves	Texture improvements for many everyday blocks and items.

More Info

Installation

Stable (Modrinth)

Use your modrinth-supporting launcher of choice (e.g. Prism) - follow modrinth instructions, then manually download the mods listed in the changelog for your version.

Edge (Unsup)

This pack version auto-updates every launch. Slightly higher chance of experiencing pack-jank.

Install Prism Launcher and Java 17 (on Windows? choose Windows-x64-JRE-17-.msi)
Download Tinkerer's Quilt from the downloads page.
Drag and drop onto an open Prism window, press OK, and double click it to play!
Whenever the pack updates, you'll be prompted on launch for if you'd like to update.
When an update contains config changes, you'll often be prompted to allow the update overwrite your own.
- Clicking "yes to all" will allow the update to change these files universally.
- If you're a more experienced user, you can manually reject configs you've set up how you like.
Note that deleting a file is no longer sufficient for it to be redownloaded. To force the pack to "reverify" all pack files next launch (like steam), delete unsup_state.json from the instance folder.

Server

Download the server from the downloads page.
Run the included Quilt Installer, selecting your minecraft version and the latest non-beta loader version.
The provided Start script will both update and run the server via the JVM argument.

Notes

If you intend to play without shaders on a powerful machine, we highly recommend QDAA to improve visual consistency.

If you experience arachnophobia or otherwise need to disable the spawning of a mob entirely, try VanillaDisable.

If you'd like to play with a controller, install Controlify before playing.

If you get lost without a map mod, try Antique Atlas 4 - which we include in other editions.

Full Modlist

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Resource Packs:
    Axolotl Bucket Variants
    Sully's Peeves
    Vanilla Tweaks
    Varied Connected Bookshelves
    xali's Enchanted Books

Mods:
    Advancements Debug
    Ambient Environment
    Animatica
    Apathy
    AppleSkin
    Architectury API
    bad packets
    Balm
    BedrockWaters
    Better End Sky
    Boring Default Game Rules
    Cardinal Ice Boats
    Carpet
    Carpet Extra
    Carpet-Fixes
    Charmonium
    ChickensShed
    Chunks fade in
    CIT Resewn
    ClickThrough
    Client Tweaks
    Cloth Config API
    Colormatic
    Continuity
    Couplings
    Coyote Time
    Crowmap
    Crunchy Crunchy Advancements
    Drogstyle
    [Jar/Fork] Dyable Fishing Lines
    Dynamic FPS
    Ears (+ Snouts/Muzzles, Tails, Horns, Wings, and More)
    EasierEnchanting
    Effective
    EMI
    EMI Trades
    Enhanced Attack Indicator
    Enhanced Block Entities
    Exordium
    Fabric Shield Lib
    Fabric Tailor
    Fabrication
    Falling Leaves
    FastOpenLinksAndFolders
    Feed the Bees
    FerriteCore
    [Fork/Jar] Fishing Real
    FTB Library (Fabric)
    FTB Quests (Fabric)
    FTB Teams (Fabric)
    Horse Buff
    Idwtialsimmoedm
    ImmediatelyFast
    Indium
    Inspecio
    Iris Shaders
    Item Filters
    Item Model Fix
    JamLib
    Kaffee's Dual Ride
    Keep My Hand
    Kiwi
    Krypton
    LambdaBetterGrass
    LambDynamicLights
    LAN World Plug-n-Play (mcwifipnp)
    LazyDFU
    Leaves Us In Peace
    Lithium
    Loading Screen Tips
    Luna Slimes
    Main Menu Credits
    Mod Menu
    ModernFix
    More Culling
    Mouse Wheelie
    Music Notification
    Not Enough Animations
    Notes
    Ok Zoomer
    [Jar/Fork] Origins
    Origins Minus
    oωo (owo-lib)
    Pehkui
    Pettable
    PicoHUD
    Portable Crafting
    Presence Footsteps
    Project: Save the Pets!
    QDResLoader
    Quilt Kotlin Libraries (QKL)
    Quilt Loading Screen
    Quilt Standard Libraries
    Reacharound
    Reese's Sodium Options
    RightClickHarvest
    Simple Durability Tooltip
    Simple Fog Control
    Skip Transitions
    Snow Under Trees (Fabric)
    Snow! Real Magic!
    Sodium
    Sodium Extra
    Starlight (Fabric)
    Status Effect Timer
    Styled Chat
    Styled Nicknames
    Styled Player List
    SwingThrough
    Switchy
    Switchy Inventories
    Switchy Proxy
    Switchy Teleport
    SwitchyKit
    Tax Free Levels
    Text Placeholder API
    Tinkerer's Smithing
    Tinkerer's Statures
    ToolTipFix
    Totem Anywhere
    VehicleFix
    Visuality
    Window Title Changer
    WTHIT
    WTHIT Plugins
    You're in Grave Danger

Recommended Shader Packs:
    BSL Shaders
    Builder's QOL Shaders
    Complementary Reimagined
    Complementary Shaders - Unbound
    Prismarine Shaders
    Rethinking Voxels
    Sildurs Enhanced Default Shaders
    Solas Shader
    Super Duper Vanilla

Afterword

All present minecraft modding is built on a decade of work from other people (and non-people, we don't discriminate).

This modpack started in January 2021 as a skyrim-style vanilla+ "modding guide" - and only exists in the form it has today thanks to much help from the community!

Special Thanks

Emi (EMI)
Una (Fabrication, Ears, Drogtor, Yttr, Unsup)
Quat (Apathy)
Comp500 (Packwiz)
LambdAurora (QSL, LambdaBetterGrass, LambDynamicLights)
Patbox (Styled Nicknames, Styled Chat)
Vazkii (Bliss)
Infinidoge (Simple Durability Tooltip)
Mod contributors and collaborators - Ampflower, Pug, LemmaEOF, Silver, Garden System, Kat, Aquaholic, Octal, Wonder collective, Leo, Janet, Jasmine, and also we have walnut memory so probably like a lot of other people lets be honest - Falkreon probably? you get the picture.
More generally - unascribed's guild and its inhabitants
The queer pluralfolk who initially tested the pack in early 2022 (you know who you are)
Bleu (for drawing the original Kapesi bust in the icon/banner art)
DuppyPuff (for drawing kapesi used in the new icon/banner art)
The many, many other folks who've provided development support and feedback for us and our modding ventures - this project wouldn't be possible without you!

License Credits

Vanilla Tweaks: https://vanillatweaks.net/
Effective: https://modrinth.com/mod/effective

Tinkerer's: Quilt - Smithing - Origins - Statures - HUD
Loveletters: Tabs - Atlas - Portable Crafting - Drogstyle
Others: Switchy - Crunchy - Starcaller

Tinkerer's Quilt