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Essential Mod

Essential Mod

Enhance your Minecraft with one simple mod. Host worlds for free, chat with friends, and so much more!

12.38M
4,139
Management
Social
Utility

Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21.x
1.20.6
1.20.4
1.20–1.20.2
1.19.x
1.18.x
1.17.1
1.16.5
1.12.2
1.8.9

Platforms

Fabric
Forge
NeoForge

Supported environments

Client-side

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Creators

SparkUniverse
SparkUniverse Owner

Details

Licensed ARR
Published 2 years ago
Updated 2 days ago
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All versionsEssential 1.3.9

Essential 1.3.9

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Changelog

New Versions

  • Added support for 1.21.8 Fabric

UI

  • Improved the layout of our buttons on the title screen
  • Improved the design of various modals
  • Added new account switcher modal
  • Added loading screen for switching accounts
  • Removed the condensed variant of the full title screen layout
  • Removed the "Essential Menu", its content was merged into Essential's settings menu

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed particles of some cosmetics not rendering properly
  • Fixed our buttons on the title and pause screens not supporting animated textures with "Use Minecraft button texture" setting
  • Fixed our buttons on the title and pause screens not supporting nine-slice textures with "Use Minecraft button texture" setting
  • Fixed bad performance in Social Menu related to long messages
  • Fixed cape being slightly darker than it should be in Minecraft 1.16 - 1.21.1
  • Fixed images not resizing correctly after a window resize in the Social Menu
  • Fixed in-solid-block overlay sometimes rendering incorrectly in Minecraft 1.8.9
  • Fixed some GUI components not rendering properly on MacOS in Minecraft 1.21.5 and above

Compatibility

  • Improved compatibility with the "Fancy Menu" mod, allowing Essential's title and pause screens to be modified
  • Fixed screenshot preview not working with "VanillaFix" mod
  • Fixed drag and drop feature rendering incorrectly with "Fabric API" 0.127.0 and above

Files

Essential_1-3-9_forge_1-21-1.jar(51.32 MiB) Primary
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Release

Version number

1.3.9

Loaders

Forge

Game versions

1.21.1

Downloads

360

Publication date

July 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM

Publisher

SparkUniverse

SparkUniverse

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