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A powerful and customisable backup mod for any minecraft version. ... A simple but advanced XRay mod that allows you to find all of your most loved blocks.
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CurseForge
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Advanced Finders - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge
MC has one of the biggest modding communities in the world, and on this very page - you'll be able to become a part of it. If you've been looking around some Minecraft forums recently, you probably know that this is the home for all the best Minecraft mods. Here, you'll be able to easily find and download the best Minecraft mods and modpacks around.
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Question regarding advanced searching on Curseforge
Nah, the search on their website is terrible. More on reddit.com
🌐 r/Minecraft
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November 17, 2021
How to search for specific mod?
https://www.modpackindex.com/modpack/finder More on reddit.com
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January 4, 2025
It is impossible to effectively browse mods or modpacks
I usually find packs via modpackindex. I find a mod that seems fun, then find packs that include that mod. I go through the descriptions and find the one that has the theme that appeals the most. Popularity and age has had little to do with pack quality. (And even less to do with how good the quest book is) Because of my hobby, I do sometimes need to consider pack popularity, but the top level download count is good enough. For a typical player, all trending indicates is maybe how active a public server could be. More on reddit.com
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January 17, 2024
Searching for modpacks that contain two specific mods
Modpack Index, "include mods" section https://www.modpackindex.com/modpack/finder More on reddit.com
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CurseForge
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Search modpacks by mods - CurseForge Ideas - Overwolf
May 14, 2021 - The original poster asked for an ... Storage" but doesn't want "Bloodmoon" in the packs listed in the search results? ... On the mod's page click "Dependencies" tab and choose "Dependents" - and there you go. Example: https://www.curseforge.com/minec......
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CurseForge
curseforge.com β€Ί minecraft β€Ί search
CurseForge - the home for modding communities
MC has one of the biggest modding communities in the world, and on this very page - you'll be able to become a part of it. If you've been looking around some Minecraft forums recently, you probably know that this is the home for all the best Minecraft mods. Here, you'll be able to easily find and download the best Minecraft mods and modpacks around.
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Just Enough Items (JEI) - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge
Advanced Search: Search by Tooltip Only: Type # in front of a word Search by OreDict name: Type $ in front of a word Search by Creative Tab: Type % in front of a word Multiple Searches: Separate terms with | characters, like "wrench|hammer"
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r/Minecraft on Reddit: Question regarding advanced searching on Curseforge
November 17, 2021 -

Just wondering if there was a way to perform more detailed searches on Curseforge. I wanted to search for further only mods that relate to specific versions of Minecraft, but I can only seem to attach for the MC version number OR forge.

Pretty poor effort on their part if searches (even as relatively simple as this) are not possible.

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curseforge.com β€Ί minecraft β€Ί mc-mods β€Ί searchables
Searchables - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on components, as well as offering built in auto-complete functionality.
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curseforge.com β€Ί minecraft β€Ί mc-mods β€Ί item-search
Item Search - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge
Allows you to find items in inventories with commands. Download Item Search by briman0094, with over 8.4K+ downloads on CurseForge
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advancements - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge
Click advancement in chat to open its location. Helps players getting into different mods ... An addon for JEI which let you search for advancements.
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Search bar for the modlist - CurseForge Ideas - Overwolf
Currently, there is no way to search for a specific mod in the curseforge app. For those of us with big modpacks, it's difficult to find specific mods in the list to delete, disable, and enable.
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Reddit
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r/CurseForge on Reddit: How to search for specific mod?
January 4, 2025 -

Is there a way to search for modpacks with a specific mod? For example search for Minecraft mod packs with the origins mod included in them?

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Minecraft Mods & Modpacks - CurseForge
3 weeks ago - Always keep in mind that each and every mod is completely free, so you can try them all until you find your favorite Minecraft mods and modpacks.
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curseforge-ideas.overwolf.com β€Ί ideas β€Ί CF-I-1663
Curseforge App: Use the search bar to search within | CurseForge Ideas
June 15, 2021 - I suggest that when the "My Modpacks" tab is selected, the search bar at the top functions to search the currently-selected mod pack, but keep the functionality to search for other mod packs when the "Browse Modpacks" is selected.
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Reddit
reddit.com β€Ί r/feedthebeast β€Ί it is impossible to effectively browse mods or modpacks
r/feedthebeast on Reddit: It is impossible to effectively browse mods or modpacks
January 17, 2024 -

To just get straight to the point, there is no good place to browse modpacks or mods.

CurseForge's sorting is the nebulous "Popularity", the even more nebulous "Relevancy", and "Total Downloads" which are entirely unhelpful forms of sorting, seeing as they are all effectively one and the same, which is why they are 3 dominated by the same handful of modpacks. And the filters are such garbage that they are worthless, especially since you can't do any kind of advanced search (excluding categories/words, searching within version or download count ranges, etc). All of this means that an average search through CurseForge is a boring scrollfest where you finally find something interesting on page 24, inbetween "Generic Pixelmon Pack #4029" and "The Pack for My Server With 6 People".

Modrinth suffers basically the exact same problems, but is a TINY bit better on it's filters. The "Revelance", "Download Count", and "Follow Count" sorting methods are all still effectively the same from a user POV, and the lack of an advanced search still makes searching it a wade through random garbage.

The only other real place to search for them is here, but the flair system here makes it virtually impossible, seeing as every modpack and mod basically has it's own flair. And this subreddit is filled with way too many questions and the like to make just scrolling useful. Even then, the modpack and mod flairs are not just used for releases, but discussion, images, a whole host of content.

Why is this a problem? Well, you know how a lot of people say there aren't that many people willing to make modpacks? It's not true. There are loads of people out there making them. They just get buried under the high profile stuff. There are almost 2500 of them on Modrinth alone, and CurseForge has so many, that if you sort by A-Z and go to page 500, the final page, you're still in the "Ci"s. Sure, most of those, as I mentioned, are generic garbage, but there is good, more obscure stuff in there, that maybe like 6 people will play because no one can find them.
More than that, it stifles innovation in the modpack creation space. Development in modpack innovation is, quite frankly, glacial right now. Anything that can be carried over to other future packs is relatively tiny (getting rid of the giant crafting tables, for mechanical crafters, effectively the same, just with a slightly more complicated setup first) and most other innovation is so radically unique it can't be carried over without just blatantly ripping off (UniversI/O comes to mind as a super innovative pack... that can't really be easily learned from). What would help that is new ideas, instead of just the same handful of teams developing the same handful of modpack series.
It's not near as bad for mods, although a lot of the same problems emerge, just more minor, stifling smaller mods and newer creators, etc. But frankly, it's just kind of annoying when it comes to mods.

So, how do we fix it?
Well, first, just to be clear, the subreddit is never going to be a good place to browse modpacks. It's not designed for that, and that's fine. The only reason I've ever thought to resort to it is bc of how useless Modrinth's and CurseForge's search functions are.
But if Modrinth and CurseForge want to look into helping this problem, then there are a few relatively simple things they could do:
First, implement some kind of "Hot" or "Up and Coming" search sort. Only include recent releases, maybe last month or two, and then sort by either download count or download rate or some similar metric.
Second, a very basic advanced search function would be extremely useful. You could probably get away with just including a way to exclude search terms and categories, as well as ranges for download/follow count and MC versions. Modrinth, in fact, already lets you select MC versions, so they are definitely ahead in this.

If anyone else has any thoughts or ideas on this, feel free to share. This is just something that has bothered me about MC modding for genuinely several years and I wanted to talk about it and potential solutions.

EDIT: I was not aware of modpackindex, but even that leaves a lot to be desire. It lacks more user friendly sort functions, the ability to search modloaders, the ability to exclude search terms OR categories, the ability to search multiple MC versions, and more. It's certainly better, but it's still lacking a lot.

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CurseForge
curseforge.com β€Ί minecraft β€Ί mc-mods β€Ί findme
FindMe - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge
Search for an item in nearby inventories. Download FindMe by Buuz135, with over 70.7M+ downloads on CurseForge
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curseforge-ideas.overwolf.com β€Ί ideas β€Ί CF-I-2419
A way to search for an addon for a mod (MC) | CurseForge Ideas
So for instance, the information for required items might show Madlen (The Sims Resource). Most Sims modders prefer you visit their website directly anyway. ... There currently doesn't appear to be a way to search specific addons.
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reddit.com β€Ί r/feedthebeast β€Ί searching for modpacks that contain two specific mods
r/feedthebeast on Reddit: Searching for modpacks that contain two specific mods
December 30, 2021 -

Is there a way to search for a modpack that uses two or more specific mods? For example, I'd like to find all modpacks that have both CC: Tweaked and Create.

I know that I can use CurseForge to search for the dependents of one mod, but since one mod can have dozens of dependents, it would be difficult to do this for each mod I'm interested in and then manually cross-reference them to see if there are any matches between two.

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CurseForge
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chest search - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge
And of course, the important thing ... for you.Read moreRead less ... This project adds search bars to chest and shucker boxes to help you find items by highlighting matching words....
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CurseForge - Mods & Addons Leading Community
Discover the world's largest mod repository on CurseForge, serving popular games and communities like Minecraft, WoW, The Sims 4, and more.