A game as easily moddable as Minecraft is bound to spawn all sorts of mods which change the game in different ways.
Most of us think of game changing mechanics and technical machinery, or extra mobs and biomes to provide challenge.
But of course there a whole host of truly weird and wonderful mods, some of which can be useful, but most not.
It’s a true testament to the creativity of the Minecraft community that you can now twerk your way through your farm, become a vampire, and breed a chicken army all in one game!
Corgi_taco’s mod adds random lunar events – presently just two as of this writing, but with more to come.
Any given night has the chance to spawn a Harvest moon – where all your crops and plants will grow much quicker. Nice!
Or you may experience a Blood moon, where mobs spawn faster, in greater numbers, closer to the player, and you die a lot and can’t sleep through it. Less nice.
I’m sure the Blood moon rewards are worth it, but that’s for you to find out.
Veteran mod developer iChun created this Morph mod which lets you morph at will into any entity you’ve killed – from Chickens to Bats, through to Endermen and even Creepers.
You can even make use of mob abilities like flight and water breathing, if you’re feeling cheaty.
While the vanilla Wandering Trader can prove annoying, they are at least helpful – or try to be.
Paralogoss’ mod adds a Wandering Trader who’ll become so angry if you fail to make a deal with him, he’ll attack you and steal your stuff, all before his evil skeletal llamas fly away with said stuff.
And just for funsies, you won’t know he’s the evil version until you’re waving goodbye to two skeletal llamas with all your hard-earned loot!
Qualifying as both weird and strange, Vampirism changes the way you play the game completely.
Choose to hunt Vampires, or just become one.
Either way you’ll have your work cut out.
As you progress down either path, you can level up and acquire minions to do your dirty work for you. So you can get on with the nitty-gritty of being a Vampire Baron or Master Hunter.
This is note a mod for long complex survival builds, but Im_JC52’s offering causes random events to occur every 30 seconds.
These can be as mild as teleporting the player a little distance or downgrading the graphics, to the more severe stuff, such as meteor showers and inverted gravity.
Great for streamers who can even let viewers vote on the next event…
Which places a lot of trust on Internet strangers.
TurkeyDev’s Chance Cubes adds giant dice all around the world, which when opened, provide a random “reward”.
The range of rewards is truly impressive, with some of the more desirable ones being useful/rare items, and entire new village or a new house for the player to claim, among many others.
Of course, you may also be rewarded with a rain of TNT blocks from on high… good luck!
Here’s one of the more “weird but weirdly useful” mods on this list.
This Chickens mod lets you breed chickens (obviously) with a range of different stats and colors.
With a full crossbreeding system, all sorts of results can be achieved here.
From chickens laying dyes all the way up to metals and even diamonds!
You can even craft a henhouse for your more treasured pet chickens to live in and collect their laid products. You know, for the full chicken experience.
For those who need a little more practice surviving a pandemic, you can now do so in Minecraft.
HellFirePvP’s mod adds a spreadable effect called ‘GooVID-20’ (just to make sure you really don’t forget about 2020).
And this spreadable mod can, of course, only be negated by using sanitizer.
Thankfully sanitizer is craftable in the mod – so there’s no risk of the Creeper from round the corner panic buying it all (the creeper might still explode in your face though, they haven’t gone all good).
Who knew that all it took to become royalty was a throne made of pure diamond?
Once placed, a villager will eventually claim said throne and become King.
Then he’s able to trade some of his vast personal fortune (which he presumably found underneath the throne) with you for emeralds, and to sit around looking fancy.
Here’s the crossover mod you never knew you needed or wanted.
Let’s say you’re tired of playing Pokémon, and you want to play some Minecraft instead… but you need the familiarity of Pokémon in your game.
This mod is for you!
Impressively, this mod adds the full Pokémon experience (though possibly not all the Pokémon) into Minecraft, including Pokémarts in towns, battling, trading, breeding, and catching Pokémon.
You can set your own goals and play your own way, choosing to complete the Pokedex or join a server for PvP battles.
