Datapacks are a viable option to enhance your server, without the need to install mods or additional plugins. Datapacks are completely vanilla compatible. Most datapacks also have a easy configuration through clickable chat menus (if they even need configuration).
Datapacks to use on your Survival Minecraft Server!
Lets dive right into this list of 5 good datapacks to use on your own Survival Server on BoxSRV.net!
5. Veinminer Datapack – Makes mining Ores a breeze!
Mining ores can be quite a slow process depending on the vein size. Veinminer makes mining ores a easy task, find a vein, mine it with your pickaxe and e’voila! the complete vein is mined and you have your ores ready to be smelted!
Veinminer does make a huge time difference and caving is truly faster with Veinminer installed on your servers world!
4. Spawn Animations Datapack – A truly immersive horror
Do you want to improve the spawning of creatures in the night? With the Spawn Animations datapack, creatures of the night crawl out of the ground, making their way to make your night harder then it needs to be. But with these animations, they at least look cool when appearing in the nightly hours.
3. Dynamic Lights – Torches in your hand finally emit light!
Tired of installing shaders just to get torches to glow in your hand? The Dynamic Lights brings that functionality without the performance hit. Torches and lanterns now emit light when held—no mods needed! Best of all, it works for everyone on your server.
2. Terralith – Biomes O’ Plenty but Vanilla!
Vanilla terrain generation can get repetitive. Enter Terralith—a stunning world-generation that adds over 95 new biomes, while improving existing ones. You’ll feel like you’re exploring a brand new game world. The best of this is, that there is absolutely no requirement of mods!
Installing this datapacks requires a world reset, putting this datapack on a already existing world will probably break the generation and cause generation errors, leading to malformed chunks.
1. From The Fog – Herobrine returns
Ever feel like you’re being watched in Minecraft? With the From The Fog, that paranoia becomes real. This datapack adds Herobrine in a truly immersive and customizable way—faithful to the legend and just creepy enough to keep you on edge.
From The Fog brings a lot of settings with it, in a easy to access menu right inside your chat. Its a lot of fun and really brings another factor of the feeling of being watched, actually knowing that someone IS watching.
These are an amazing way to enhance your Minecraft gameplay without the need for plugins or mods. With these Top 5 Survival Datapack tips, your server is ready to stand out from the rest. We loved to put together this list and it was fun experimenting what datapacks to put in it, we hope, you will have as much fun as we had during testing!
Want to learn how to install datapacks on your Minecraft server? Check out our easy-to-follow tutorial right here!
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