First, add nothing. Then, season to taste.
Making minecraft smoother, more discoverable, and have the slightly more items since 2022.

Pack Features

Vanilla Ice [Vanilla+ Content]

Tinkerer's Quilt Plus is a Vanilla+ Modpack - It adds a bit of content to items, blocks, and worlds, but doesn't add any elaborate new systems.

If you're looking for the original vanilla-compatible pack, that's Tinkerer's Quilt.

The content added is a slight expansion on exploration, self-defense, and homesteading. In total, it bumps the quest count to 193.

Relevant Mod	Summary
Aurora's Decorations	Adds decorations, including two wood types and a new biome.
Antique Atlas	Press M to open a full dimension map.
🛠️ Antique Fwaystones	Adds global atlas markers for discovered waystones.
Campanion	Adds camping-themed tools and building materials.
Consistency+	Adds missing block type variations for many blocks.
Earth2Java	Adds cosmetic passive entity variants.
Fabric Seasons	Adds crop-affecting and visual seasons to the world.
Farmer's Delight	Adds many new crops and cooking methods.
Fabric Waystones	Adds a fast travel system of standing stones.
Lovely Snails	Adds tameable and rideable snails to the world.
Repurposed Structures	Adds new village variants to the world.
Sandwichable	Allows making arbitrary sandwiches out of foods.
YUNGs Better Mods	Overhauls various vanilla structures for intricacy.

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Mods:
[Jar/Fork] Aileron
Amplified Nether
[Jar/Fork] Antique Atlas
Antique Fwaystones
Architecture Extensions
Aurora's Decorations
Bovines and Buttercups (Mooblooms)
Campanion
Chalk (Fabric)
Consistency+
Dawn API
Earth2Java
EMICompat
Fabric Seasons: Delight Compat
[Jar/Fork] Fabric Seasons
Farmer's Delight [Fabric]
Fabric Waystones
Geophilic
Halfdoors
Lovely Snails
Meal API
MidnightLib
Nature's Compass
Polaroid Camera
Repurposed Structures - Quilt/Fabric
[Jar/Fork] Sandwichable
Trinkets
Universal Ores
YUNG's API
YUNG's Better Desert Temples
YUNG's Better Dungeons
YUNG's Better Mineshafts
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments
YUNG's Better Strongholds
YUNG's Better Witch Huts

Below this section continues the original Tinkerer's Quilt Description.

A Playable Minecraft Wiki [Vanilla Quests]

Tinkerer's Quilt adds 166 quests that help players explore minecraft.
From basic game progression to niche mechanics like mechanisms, building furniture, and using beds as weapons.

Click to show Quest Previews

The Basics - Overworld, Nether, End

Quests: The Basics

Homesteading - Transport, Housing, Farming (Renewables), Workshopping (Mechanisms)

Quests: Homesteading

Self-Defense - Armaments, Challenges, Foes

Quests: Self-Defense

Exploration - Wanderer, Sightseer, Naturalist

Quests: Exploration

Relevant Mod	Summary
🛠️ Crunchy Crunchy Advancements	Removes advancements so you can focus on quests.

My Other Modpack Description Is A Quest [In-Game Documentation]

Tinkerer's Quilt has all the information you need to know about the pack in-game.

No wiki, nothing - you don't even need to read this whole description.

Most of the information is available in the Introduction Quest Category: Quests: Introduction

Relevant Mod	Summary
EMI	An advanced recipe book for learning how to craft and use any item.
What The Hell Is That?	Hold alt to see information on the block or mob you're looking at.
🛠️ PicoHUD	Hold alt to see your location, direction, and the in-game time.

Smooth As Butter [Game Rebalancing / QoL]

Tinkerer's Quilt focuses rebalancing on making the game accessible to more people, but also taking the sting out of frustrating parts of vanilla.

It's not just about making the game easier - with annoyances alleviated in death, movement, and equipment mechanics, more experienced players can crank the difficulty and have a blast!

Relevant Mod	Summary
Apathy	Mobs are neutral on easy difficulty, and will only attack you if provoked.
You're In Grave Danger	Leaves a grave on death with your items and XP that won't de-spawn.
🛠️ Tinkerer's Smithing	Repair, upgrade, and maintain your favourite tools.
Project: Save The Pets!	Prevents pet harm and adds a pet revival system.
Horse Buff	Improves and protects horses, making them easier to take out on adventures.
Reacharound	Build midair bridges without sneaking, and even downwards stairs.
Fabrication	A multitude of minor improvements, like automatic block pickup and crawling.
Noteable	Allows players to take in-game notes about their plans, locations to revisit, etc.
🛠️ Portable Crafting	Open the crafting table from your inventory.

Three Demons, Two Lizards, a Bug, and a Fish all walk into a Bar [Character Customization]

Tinkerer's Quilt Encourages player expression with better skins, origins, and more ways to build.

Relevant Mod	Summary
Ears	Skins with tails, horns, ears, claws, wings and more!
Fabric Tailor	Swap your skin in-game.
🛠️ Drogstyle	Change player name, color, and bio (e.g. pronouns) any time.
🛠️ Switchy	Swap between player profiles with names, skins, or even inventories!
Origins	Choose an Origin, with abilities and limitations.
🛠️ Origins Minus	Simple origins with fun abilities!
🛠️ Tinkerer's Statures	Choose your height and size with origins!
Presence Footsteps	Footstep audio redone - allows changing footstep gait for quadrupeds/etc.
Fabrication	A huge tweak mod, includes hiding armor and improvements for minecart networks.
Carpet	Many server tweaks, including mechanism and renewable expansions.

More Info

Installation

Stable (Modrinth)

Use your modrinth-supporting launcher of choice (e.g. Prism) - follow modrinth instructions, then manually download the mods listed in the changelog for your version.

Edge (Packwiz)

This pack version auto-updates every launch. Slightly higher chance of experiencing pack-jank.

Install Prism Launcher and Java 17 (on Windows? choose Windows-x64-JRE-17-.msi)
- Alternatively, run winget install "Prism Launcher" and winget install --id EclipseAdoptium.TemurinJRE.17.
Download Tinkerer's Quilt from the packwiz downloads page.
Drag and drop onto an open Prism window, press OK, and double click it to play!
- To disable auto-updates, turn off custom commands in Edit Instance -> Settings.

Packwiz Server

Download the server from the packwiz downloads page.
Run the included Quilt Installer, selecting your minecraft version and the latest non-beta loader version.
Run the Update script to install the pack, then the Start script to run the server

Full Modlist

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Resource Packs:
    Axolotl Bucket Variants
    Sully's Peeves
    Vanilla Tweaks
    Varied Connected Bookshelves
    xali's Enchanted Books

Mods:
    Advancements Debug
    Ambient Environment
    Animatica
    Apathy
    AppleSkin
    Architectury API
    bad packets
    Balm
    BedrockWaters
    Better End Sky
    Boring Default Game Rules
    Cardinal Ice Boats
    Carpet Extra
    Carpet-Fixes
    Carpet
    Charmonium
    ChickensShed
    Chunks fade in
    CIT Resewn
    CleanCut
    Client Tweaks
    Cloth Config API
    Colormatic
    Continuity
    Couplings
    Coyote Time
    Crowmap
    Crunchy Crunchy Advancements
    Drogstyle
    [Jar/Fork] Dyable Fishing Lines
    Dynamic FPS
    Ears (+ Snouts/Muzzles, Tails, Horns, Wings, and More)
    EasierEnchanting
    Enhanced Block Entities
    EMI
    EMI Trades
    Enhanced Attack Indicator
    Exordium
    Window Title Changer
    Fabrication
    Fabric Shield Lib
    Fabric Tailor
    Falling Leaves
    FastOpenLinksAndFolders
    Feed the Bees
    FerriteCore
    [Fork/Jar] Fishing Real
    FTB Library (Fabric)
    FTB Quests (Fabric)
    FTB Teams (Fabric)
    Horse Buff
    Idwtialsimmoedm
    [Jar/Fork] Illuminations
    ImmediatelyFast
    Indium
    [Jar/Fork] Inventory Tabs
    Inspecio
    Iris Shaders
    Item Filters
    Item Model Fix
    JamLib
    Kaffee's Dual Ride
    Keep My Hand
    Kiwi 🥝
    Krypton
    LambdaBetterGrass
    LambDynamicLights
    LazyDFU
    Leaves Us In Peace
    Lithium
    Lucium
    Luna Slimes
    Main Menu Credits
    LAN World Plug-n-Play (mcwifipnp)
    Memory Leak Fix
    Mod Menu
    More Culling
    Mouse Wheelie
    Music Notification
    NoRecipeBook (Fabric)
    Not Enough Animations
    Noteable
    Ok Zoomer
    [Jar/Fork] Origins
    Origins Minus
    oωo (owo-lib)
    Pehkui
    Pettable
    PicoHUD
    Portable Crafting Standalone
    Presence Footsteps
    Project: Save the Pets!
    QDResLoader
    Quilt Kotlin Libraries (QKL)
    Quilt Standard Libraries
    Quilt Loading Screen
    Reacharound
    Reese's Sodium Options
    RightClickHarvest
    Simple Durability Tooltip
    Simple Fog Control
    Skip Transitions
    Snow! Real Magic! ⛄
    Snow Under Trees (Fabric)
    Sodium Extra
    Sodium
    Starlight (Fabric)
    Status Effect Timer
    Styled Chat
    Styled Nicknames
    Styled Player List
    Switchy Inventories
    Switchy Proxy
    Switchy Resource Packs
    [Jar/Fork] Switchy Teleport
    Switchy
    SwitchyKit
    Tax Free Levels
    Tinkerer's Smithing
    Tinkerer's Statures
    Loading Screen Tips
    ToolTipFix
    Totem Anywhere Standalone
    VehicleFix
    Visuality
    WTHIT Plugins
    WTHIT
    You're in Grave Danger
    Your Options Shall Be Respected (YOSBR)

Recommended Shader Packs:
    BSL Shaders
    Builder's QOL Shaders
    Complementary Reimagined
    Complementary Shaders v4
    Prismarine Shaders
    Rethinking Voxels
    Sildurs Enhanced Default Shaders
    Super Duper Vanilla

If you can't get by without a map mod, try our fork of Antique Atlas without items.

Afterword

All present minecraft modding is built on a decade of work from other people (and non-people, we don't discriminate).

This modpack started in January 2021 as a skyrim-style vanilla+ "modding guide" - and only exists in the form it has today thanks to much help from the community!

Special Thanks

Emi (EMI)
Una (Fabrication, Ears, Drogtor, Yttr)
Quat (Apathy)
Comp500 (Packwiz)
LambdAurora (QSL, LambdaBetterGrass, LambDynamicLights)
Patbox (Styled Nicknames, Styled Chat)
Vazkii (Bliss)
Infinidoge (Simple Durability Tooltip)
Mod contributors and collaborators - Ampflower, Pug, LemmaEOF, Silver, Garden System, Kat, Aquaholic, Octal, Ami, Leo, Janet, Jasmine, and also we have walnut memory so probably like a lot of other people lets be honest - Falkreon probably? you get the picture.
More generally - unascribed's guild and its inhabitants
The queer pluralfolk who initially tested the pack in early 2022 (you know who you are)
Bleu (for drawing the original Kapesi bust in the icon/banner art)
DuppyPuff (for drawing kapesi used in the new icon/banner art)
The many, many other folks who've provided development support and feedback for us and our modding ventures - this project wouldn't be possible without you!

License Credits

Vanilla Tweaks: https://vanillatweaks.net/
OriginsPlus and Lepus: Dan's Other Clone https://www.youtube.com/c/DansOtherClone
Illuminations: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/illuminations

Packs: Tinkerer's Quilt (Silk) - Switchy Pack Mods: Switchy - Origins Minus (Statures) - Tinkerer's Smithing

Tinkerer's Quilt Plus