5 beginner-friendly Minecraft mods worth checking out

Since its release in 2011, the Minecraft community has made countless mods for the title. Some mods add all kinds of detailed and technical features like electricity, tricky crafting recipes for machines, vehicles, etc. However, there are some mods that only focus on performance and making the experience easier for beginners.

Hence, if a player is new to the blocky world, here are some of the best beginner-friendly mods for Minecraft Java Edition that they can check out.

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List of 5 great Minecraft mods for beginners

1) Just Enough Items

Just Enough Items (Image via CurseForge/@mezz)

Beginners can have a tough time remembering Minecraft's crafting recipes. There are loads of items, each with a completely different recipe. Hence, Just Enough Items is a great mod that showcases every single item and block in the game, even without unlocking their crafting recipes.

When the player selects an item from the list, the mod shows how it can be crafted and what the item can be used for in other crafting recipes.

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2) Apple Skin

Apple Skin is a mod that shows various details about hunger, food items, and saturation (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Like items and blocks, Minecraft also has a plethora of food items players can eat to survive. However, every single food item is different in terms of how much hunger and saturation it can replenish.

Since there is no way for beginners to find which food item is the best in the game, the Apple Skin is a great mod for this purpose. This mod shows which food item will replenish how many hunger and saturation points. It also shows the saturation and hunger levels accurately in the hunger bar itself.

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3) JourneyMap

JourneyMap is a great mod that adds an HUD map to the game (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Minecraft does not have an in-game map that appears on the HUD and can be fully opened. Players are required to manually create maps as items in the game to use them. Since the game is so massive, mods like JourneyMap are some of the most popular ones.

Since exploring around in a nearly endless world can be daunting, beginners will greatly appreciate mods like JourneyMap, which adds a minimap and a full-page map to see where they are and where different biomes and structures are.

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4) Sodium

Sodium is a performance mod that optimizes the game (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Minecraft can be a demanding game even on a decent system, simply because it pushes the CPU to render thousands of chunks while a player is moving around. Hence, both beginners and veterans should use performance mods.

One of the best performance mods out there is called Sodium. This mod optimizes how the game renders chunks and also allows block and entity culling features. These features reduce the load from the device, allowing the game to run on a much higher FPS than usual.

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5) Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks is a great mod that adds bags to carry more items (Image via CurseForge/ P3pp3rF1y)

When beginners start their journey in Minecraft, they will quickly realize how little their inventory space is. While other games offer inventory expansions, there is no way to expand the inventory space here. Though players can craft shulker boxes to keep more items and carry those boxes, these blocks can only be obtained after slaying the Ender Dragon.

Hence, for beginners, the best way to drastically expand their inventory space is by using the Sophisticated Backpacks mod. It adds highly customizable backpacks, and these can also have unique upgrades and power-ups to help players survive.

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