A new update to the popular BOCB Sim City mod unlocks all ploppables and road types to be placed anywhere on your Sim City Map. No more building inside the little city boxes! Now the world truly is your canvas for development.

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Finally, a minecraft mod that allows you to design and build your very own ship. Sail and fly into the sunset with Archimedes’ Ship mod, made by modder BalkondeurAlpha. Sailable ships, as opposed to little blocky boats have been on many minecrafters’ wish lists for a long time now. And finally their call has been answered. Ships created using this mod are considered ‘moveable chunks’, which can be piloted across the minecraft seas. Build anything from luxury pleasurecraft to great sailing ships. One could even live on a boat if one so desired. Or create a floating city. The only limit, as usual, is your imagination.

*The pirate ship pictured in this post is a downloadable ship, which can be found at this link. With a few adjustments you could turn this static vessel into the terror of the high seas.

Ever wondered which minecraft mods were the most popular? Which mods you really just have to have? This article looks at some of the most downloaded mods for minecraft, which have been downloaded a cumulative 1234,979 times! (And yes, in spite of almost hitting a straight there, that’s the real number of downloads these mods had at the time of writing.) In editing this article, I chose the mods most likely to make playing minecraft more fun and fulfilling, whether that’s by adding a bit of bedroom furniture, making navigation simpler or blasting off into outerspace.

Zan’s Minimap Mod

This mod adds a small circular minimap to the Minecraft GUI, allowing a player to see where they are relative to a larger view of the world. Zan’s Minimap mod now comes standard in many minecraft modpacks and also supports waypoints, allowing you to designate tags for certain areas and buildings in a minecraft map. With over 497,129 downloads, this is a MUST HAVE minecraft mod.

Herobrine Mod

Herobrine is a minecraft legend. A dark and evil anti-Steve, Herobrine looks like any default player – but for his blank, empty eyes. The Herobrine mod adds Herobrine to the game, turning a normal minecraft experience into a terrifying flight from an eyeless man who sets traps in order to destroy you, ruins your buildings and generally makes you feel as if you’ve chosen to live in the darkest timeline possible. 262,527 minecrafters are currently fleeing Herobrine in complete terror.

For a related minecraft map download, why not try Herobrine’s Return, an adventure map.

Mr Crayfish’s Minecraft Furniture Mod

Vanilla minecraft contains no furniture at all, but this furniture mod contains everything from couches to bird baths. Make your minecraft house a minecraft home with this Forge compatible mod, which has already been downloaded more than 241,499 times.

Already featured on Top of the Mods, other very popular minecraft mods include:

The Minecraft Camping Mod (With more than 107,212 downloads.)

Galacticraft Minecraft Space Mod (T-126,612 downloads and counting!)

Your Skyrim journey began in Helgen and as you fled the ruins you might have thought you would never return. But with this quest mod from Mike Hancho you can return to Helgen and help rebuild the town. With an additional five hours of seriously new Skyrim gameplay you can enjoy a quest line that makes a real difference in the world of Skyrim. In addition to a new quest, you’ll also gain access to three new sets of armor and a place to display a great many of your Skyrim treasures. This is the perfect mod for anyone who has ever thought that Skyrim was just too shallow to be truly immersive. With twenty new voice acted characters, this is more than a mod, this is essentially Free Skyrim DLC.

Helgen Reborn Skyrim Quest Download

Wolves were without a doubt one of the best mobs ever to be added to minecraft. Finally you could tame a canine friend (who, in the early days would happily leap into lava as happily as water.) But with time, Wolves have become less relevant to the average minecrafter. They sit around, making doggy noises and occasionally floating heart balloons into the air. But what if you want more from your wolf or dog? What if you want a wolf made of lava? This is the mod you need.
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The power tools mod creates several new minecraft machines, including drills and bores capable of creating big holes in the fraction of the time you can do so with your shoveling square hands. There’s no auger as yet, but that’s because there’s not much call for post holes in minecraft.

Tools include:

The Shaft Drill

A drill which will create a 1x2x2 shaft, perfect for establishing new mines with a rapid quickness.
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The mod creator calls this a ‘Buddy Pet Mod’ but this is definitely a minecraft Mini-me mod. The mod creates a small version of you – a mini-you to run around in your minecraft game with you. Your mini-me spawns when you do, logs off when you do and runs about the world much the same as you do. If you don’t want to lose your mini-me, you can right click to wear him or her on your head. It makes total sense.

If you don’t want to run around with a miniature version of yourself, but do want a pet, you can change what your mini-me looks like. This is where the pet buddy part of the mod comes in. It is possible to have your mini-me incarnate as any minecraft mob. So you can have a minecraft pet spider, pet pig, pet skeleton, pet enderman, pet bat, pet villager or pet (insert minecraft mob name here).

Minecraft Mini-Me Pet Mod Download Link

Once you kill your first Skyrim dragon you’ll find yourself beset with dragons every time you step out of the house. It often seems as if one can’t go ten minutes in Skyrim without being attacked by a dragon – so wouldn’t it be nice if you got more from killing a dragon than just heavy bones and scales?

The Dragonblood Perk Points mod adds a new mechanic to the game. Now when you kill a dragon, you’ll sometimes also receive a vial of dragonblood. Drink it to gain one perk point which can be used to boost any of your skills.  This works with vanilla skills and custom skill trees alike.

Check out the Dragonblood mod on the Skyrim Workshop!

Version 1.2 of Rise of Kings, a mod for Rise of Nations. Though this game was released a decade ago, interest and modding support remains strong, hence the additional release of this update to the original Rise of Kings mod. Features include:

• Set across three ages that cover the medieval era: The Dark Age (Classical Age), The Castle Age (Medieval Age), and the Imperial Age (Gunpowder Age).
• Twenty four factions, ranging from the Holy Roman Empire to Armenia to Mongolia
• A large number of new units, with many new models and animations.
• A range of mercenaries can be recruited at the Outpost building.
• The powerful Noble’s Court can research special technologies and train elite warriors.
• Regional units are shared by multiple nations such as the Muslim Ghazis, Asian conscripts, Germanic feudal retinue and the Scandinavian longships.
• The castle can train gunpowder units like arquebusiers and bombards.
• Technology’s importance is increased. For instance, some naval units can only be built if a nation researches a certain government type.
• A full set of medieval wonders such as the Tower of London and the Hagia Sophia.
• Population limit increased to 400

Download Rise of Kings 1.2 from MobDB!

If you find minecraft’s menus and GUIs to be a little on the ugly and not terribly useful side (perhaps especially since texture packs were shoved into an in-game sub-menu) then you’ll love Novamenu. Novamenu is designed to make Minecraft’s menus much more pleasant to look at. It makes heavy use of transparency to give minecraft a more updated feel. In fact, in many ways it reminds me of the Skyrim UI mod which was released to give PC players a more usable interface. Novamenu is designed to work with the Forge API and is a core mod.

Novamenu Download Link