We included a list for mods in which the top modpack was the only Minecraft-related mod, so you could easily see which Minecraft-specific mods people are downloading. The result was a list of Top 50 Minecraft mods with over a million downloads. So we subtracted out all the other mods that we were unable to find.
In order for a mod to be included in the Top 50 list, it must be downloaded at least 10,000 times in a single Minecraft session.
We wanted to include all the top mods that people would install to play Minecraft, so to do this we looked for the mods with the highest popularity. This left us with the Top 100 most popular Mojang modpacks.
To make this list as complete as possible, we then took each of the Top 10 most popular Minecraft modpacks and subtracted their respective Mojang-themed pack from the list. Then, we added that hash value to the Minecraft list. This value is the same as the Minecraft hash value for the top 4,500 Minecraft mods and for all the Mojang packs. We used the number 0x0123456789 to determine the hash value. To do this, we used a method known as “hash-to-hash” hashing. We counted up all the mod packs and then looked to see if they were all the same. We included a total of 4,400 Minecraft mods, so the number is a bit smaller than the top-100 list.īut we’re still fairly certain we’re missing a lot, and we wanted a way to make our list as comprehensive as possible. Mods with a lot in commonMods often have many similarities to each other, so we wanted to make sure we weren’t overlooking any of the best mods.įor our rankings, we combined all the popular Minecraft and Mojang mods into one list. We created this list to give users a sense of which mods are more popular and to give us a better idea of which mod packs are the least popular. We created a table showing which Minecraft and Minecraft-themed mods were most popular and which were the most downloaded. This resulted in the list of popular Minecraft mods. We then compared the number and popularity of the top 10 most requested Minecraft mods against the top 100 most requested popular mods.
These mods are not necessarily included in our top 10, but they do help the Minecraft series grow.įor this ranking, all the mods we counted were included. We also looked for mods which are more than a single mod.įor the purposes of our ranking of popular mods, we only considered the top ten most requested mod packs. To make this more precise, we also counted the number that were downloaded in addition to the official Minecraft packs. So, we counted up the number to find the mods most popular. This is especially important for mods that were not made by Mojang itself, because they often require an in-game mod manager. In other words, you might not always know if a mod you installed is popular or not. This was done to determine how popular those mods are, as some mods might not be widely available, or people might not have a mod management program installed. We then looked at how many of those mods were installed by people with a mod manager installed. We considered Minecraft versions up to the latest version 1.8.4.
If a mod is already installed, we took that into account. To include mods, you’ll need to be signed into Mojang.
We excluded the official mod pack, which is the version of Minecraft available to download from the official Mojang server.
Mods and Minecraft modsWe looked at all the Minecraft mods we could find. We also looked at the number of Minecraft mods installed by users in the Minecraft community. In our ranking, we looked at what mods most players have downloaded to run their Minecraft games. In fact, there is an unofficial Minecraft wiki, which contains an entire encyclopedia of mods for the series. Mods are files that you download and install to make your game run better, faster, and more smoothly.Įach mod adds or changes one or more files that are essential to the game running, so it’s often the most common way people mod Minecraft.įor example, there are a lot of mods that are not required for the game to run, but are still available as optional plugins. If you’ve never modded a Minecraft game before, you’re probably not aware that you can get Minecraft to run with the most mods installed on your computer, but that’s where things get tricky. In order to determine which Minecraft mods most people want to see, we’ve created a ranking of the most requested mods from the community.