Useful Minecraft Links (personal awesome-minecraft)

My personal list of cool and useful Minecraft-related links: tools, software, mods, launchers… all created by the community!
I was inspired to make this list by bs-community’s Awesome Minecraft list
(Very incomplete list)
 
⭐ = best tool in my opinion
🌐 = online service
⚙️ = API
💬 = forum (Discord server, etc)
📕 = documentation, guide

• Multicraft
• Fork
• Minecraft Bedrock management service - manager of local BDS

• 🌐 MCStatus - retrieve the status of any Minecraft server
• ⚙️ minecraft-server-util - a node.js package for interacting with Java and Bedrock Edition Minecraft servers
   
• 💬 ServerSeeker - biggest servers scanner community (and ServerSeeker bot)
• 🌐 mc-server-scanner - servers scanner
   
• 🌐 The Official Minecraft Server List

• 📕 Minecraft server optimization guide
• 📕 Paper Chan’s Little Guide to Minecraft Server Optimization!
   

The great server fork tree:

• Bukkit
  • Spigot
    • PaperMC - performance based fork
      • Purpur - more configurability
      • Airplane
        • Pufferfish
      • Folia - multithreading (used by 2B2T, for large MrBeast events…)
         

Proxies for servers:

• BungeeCord
• Velocity
   

Zero-Mojang-code reliance:

• Minestom
• Glowstone

• CloudburstMC & Nukkit - server software made in Java
  • PowerNukkit - a modified version of Nukkit which adds support to a huge amount of features like water-logging, all new blocks, more plugin events, offhand slot, bug fixes and many more
    • PowerNukkitX - a branch version based on PowerNukkit
• PocketMine-MP - server software written in PHP

• Bedrock Dedicated Server - the official BDS which is completely vanilla

Modded BDS (built on BDS; therefore supports addons, vanilla generation, etc):

• LeviLamina (formerly LiteLoaderBDS) - a lightweight, modular and versatile plugin loader for Minecraft Bedrock Server BDS
• BDSX - supports node.js

The most well known ones (as there are too many to list):

• GGServers
• Shockbyte
• Apex Minecraft Hosting
• Hostinger
• MCProHosting - used to be used by Hypixel

Includes free plan

• bedocker - easy free Minecraft Bedrock only server hoster. Only supports BDS
• Minehut
• Server.pro

• Forge - biggest platform, best for older versions
  • NeoForged - Forge fork
• Fabric - second biggest, best for recent versions
  • Quilt - Fabric fork
• SinytraConnector - a compatibility layer that allows running Fabric mods on Minecraft Forge
• LiteLoader

Discover the mod loader lore: The History of Modded Minecraft by CygnusMC

• Project Amethyst - Windows mod loader
• Horizon - Android mod loader

• 📕 Migrating from Forge to Fabric - a list of performance and quality of life related fabric mods to migrate from Forge, as well as other alternative mods.
• 📕 Optifine Alternatives to migrate to Fabric

Mod browsers:

• Modrinth
• CurseForge

• Lunar Client - biggest client, has launcher
• Badlion Client - has launcher
• Labymod - compatible with Forge & Fabric mods, has launcher
• Feather Client - compatible with Forge & Fabric mods, has launcher
• Salwyrr - crack support
• Cloud Client - Forge mod
• 5zig reborn - Forge 1.8.9-1.12.2; Fabric 1.15.2
• Axolotl Client - Fabric mod

• Onix Client - biggest Windows client
• OptiCraft - optimized Minecraft: Education Edition with multiplayer support

• Impact

• Vape - ghost client, paid

• Meteor

• Future

• Wurst

• ⚙️ mineflayer - create Minecraft bots with a JavaScript API

• baritone - automating tasks on the client

• Borion Updated - update of Horion (Windows)

• ⭐ Prism Launcher - an Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods (fork of MultiMC)
• ⭐ X Minecraft Launcher - an Open Source Minecraft Launcher with Modern UX. Manage multiple instances and mods! (+ support for offline accounts)
• GDLauncher - a simple, yet powerful Minecraft custom launcher with a strong focus on the user experience.
• Hello Minecraft! Launcher a Minecraft launcher that even works for mobile devices!
• Curseforge launcher
• ATLauncher
• HelixLauncher - a fast, lightweight, nicely designed and open-source launcher for Minecraft (still work in progress).
   
  A comparison video of the most popular Minecraft launchers:

• Minecraft Bedrock Launcher - An unofficial Minecraft Bedrock for Windows Launcher
• MCMrARM’s mc-w10-version-launcher - Windows version switcher
• Amethyst Launcher - Amethyst runtime support, version switcher and profiles manager
• MCBE Preview Switcher - multi-instancing and version switching software
• Keep Minecraft UWP Online - (not really a launcher) prevents disconnecting when the window is minimized

• 🌐 Cubical - an advanced online editor, creator and viewer for Minecraft projects and builds
• ⚙️ prismarine-viewer - web based viewer for servers and bots
• Amulet - Minecraft world editor and converter, a better version of MCEdit (Java 1.12+ and Bedrock 1.7+)
• MCA Selector - modify chunks of a Java world
• WorldPainter - an interactive map generator for Minecraft. It allows you to “paint” landscapes using similar tools as a regular paint program.
• Chunker - Minecraft world converter (endorsed by Mojang)
• uNmINeD - an easy to use and fast Minecraft world viewer and mapper tool (supports Java & Bedrock worlds)
• Amidst - a tool to display an overview of a Minecraft seed
• 🌐 MCSeeder - an online tool to display an overview of a Minecraft seed
• 🌐 World Size Calculator - calculate Java worlds’ disk size

World renderers:

• Chunky - Render photorealistic scenes of your Minecraft worlds with path tracing, Minecraft 1.2.1+
• Mapcrafter - high performance Minecraft map renderer (Minecraft 1.13 or less)
• The Minecraft Overviewer - high-resolution Minecraft world renderer (Minecraft 1.15 or less)
   
• NBT Studio
• Image Map - convert images to Minecraft maps and import them to your world

• NameMC - skin library + player skins search
• Laby.net - like NameMC
• The Skindex
• PlanetMinecraft skins
• Nova Skin

Skin editors:

• ⭐🌐 PMCSkin3D
• 🌐 Nova Skin
• 🌐 Skindex
• Blockbench - also has web app

• ⭐ Mine-imator - best Minecraft animation software
• Modelbench - modeling software for Mine-imator
• ⭐ Blockbench - also has web app: create blocky models & animations
• 🌐 BDEngine - create block displays with a 3D model editor
• ⚙️ MineRenderer - web API for rendering skins, blocks, items & GUI
• Open Note Block Studio - note block songs editor

• MCreator - interactive software for developing Java mods

• 📕 Bedrock Wiki - guides to creating addons
• 📕 bedrock.dev
   
• MCreator - interactive software for developing Bedrock addons
• bridge. - Minecraft addons IDE
   
• 🌐 Loot tables generator
• 🌐 Crafting recipe generator
• 🌐 MCBE Essentials
• 🌐 Minecraft Creator Tools - tests and analytics for MCBE pack files (created by Mojang devs!)
   
  

  Rip-offs

• CraftStudio - create blocky games (unmaintained)
• Minetest - open source voxel game engine

• 📕 The Minecraft Wiki

• 📕 wiki.vg - Minecraft protocol documentation amongst other stuff

• 📕 Minecraft Parkour Wiki
   

• 🌐 Minecraft Assets - browse Minecraft files
   

• Omniarchive - Minecraft archives

🛒 Markets

• BuiltByBit - formerly MCMarket, largest market from Minecraft-related services
• Polymart - Minecraft marketplace
• Bucket of Crabs - find jobs related to Minecraft (and other games)