5 best Minecraft QoL mods to help you save time

In Minecraft, you need to survive and progress by gathering resources, crafting new blocks, creating a safe base, and exploring the never-ending world for loot. Almost all of these activities can take a lot of time. For example, exploring the world for new structures can take hours on end. The same goes for building a base or gathering rare resources from caves.

Thankfully, a few quality-of-life mods can save you time in Minecraft; here's a list of some of these mods.

Note: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer's opinion.

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List of 5 great QoL mods that will save your time in Minecraft

1) Just Enough Items

Just Enough items allows you to quickly see all the crafting recipes of every item (Image via CurseForge/mezz)

Crafting and smelting objects are essential parts of the action in Minecraft because it is a sandbox game. But learning every recipe can be difficult and time-consuming.

Just Enough Items completely changes the GUIs of functional blocks, making them more intuitive. A list of every block and item in the game is provided by this mod, select any one and learn how it can be used in any crafting recipe. Since learning crafting recipes for every item can be a tedious task, this mod can be a helpful time-saver.

2) Mouse Tweaks

Mouse tweaks is a great utility mod that adds new mouse shortcuts to quickly sort out inventories (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Mouse Tweaks is another great Minecraft mod that can save a lot of your time. While playing, you probably sort out your inventory quite frequently. This can be tedious since you'll have to either drag and drop or simply hold the shift button and click on every single item for it to be transferred to a chest.

This is where this mod can be of great use since it replaces the standard right mouse button dragging and shortcut mechanics with its very own, which is much easier to learn and use. It also adds several left clicks, with which you can easily drag one item around your inventory or a chest slot and pick up similar items.

In conclusion, Mouse Tweaks will save you a lot of time when sorting out inventory.

3) Waystones

Waystones will let you fast travel from one place to another (Image via CurseForge/BlayTheNinth)

Even while Minecraft has an almost infinite map, it still lacks a fast-traveling mechanism. You can still go around on foot, ride a mob, row a boat, or use elytra in vanilla versions. The Waystones mod was created by the modding community in response to the necessity for quick trips.

Without altering other features, this mod adds new blocks and items that are only used to create a rapid travel system in Minecraft. These waystones can be crafted, placed anywhere in the world, and fast-traveled between using unique items like scrolls. This can save your time significantly since you will be able to travel long distances within seconds.

4) Xaero's Minimap

Xaero's Minimap will show you all the neighbouring chunks even if you cannot render them in front of you (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

The lack of a mini- or world map can be immediately apparent when you first join a new Minecraft world. While traveling and exploring Minecraft, you may experience a sense of confusion because of how massive the world is. Xaero's Minimap mod is useful in this situation.

It offers a customizable minimap that shows biomes, creatures, dropped items, and topography of the world. The Mod Menu allows you to further customize the minimap mod and display a variety of data, including coordinates, biome type, block light level, and even time of day.

5) GraveStone

GraveStone is a great mod that tells exactly where you died (Image via CurseForge/henkelmax)

Although there are several gravestone mods, the GraveStone mod is the most often used. CurseForge alone has almost 70,000,000 downloads.

Simply said, this mod adds a new gravestone block that generates whenever you die in the game. Every single item you drop at the time of your death will be saved inside the gravestone block. The coordinates of the gravestone and the site of the last death are listed on an obituary paper that players receive after respawning. Additionally, the gravestone can be personalized and given a new name.

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Akshat has been a Minecraft writer at Sportskeeda for almost three years. He has loved gaming since childhood, and the fact that Need For Speed Most Wanted is still installed on his PC is proof that the flame burns strong even today. This love for the racing franchise spilled over to F1 fandom, leading him to cover the sport as well for the company.

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Edited by Akshat Kabra