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What Minecraft versions do you support?

All the versions we support can be found here: Essential Versions

Please note that we will not back-port to any older versions.

Does Essential Mod corrupt worlds?

Essential Mod doesn’t corrupt your Minecraft worlds. We don’t change how the vanilla game handles world-saving.

What launchers do you support?

We support Vanilla, Prism, CurseForge, and Feather.

Launcher NameLink
Vanilla Launcherminecraft.net/en-us/download
Prismprismlauncher.org
CurseForgedownload.curseforge.com
Featherfeathermc.com
Is Essential Mod safe?

Absolutely! At Essential Mod, user safety and privacy are paramount:

  • Privacy Protection: Your Minecraft account details are neither accessed nor stored by us.
  • Secure Technology: For P2P world hosting, we utilise industry-standard technologies for safety. More details on our P2P technology are available How does world hosting work?.
  • Transparency Initiatives: Essential Mod is source available, which means you can check out the code yourself. We also have open source projects—everything’s up on our Github if you want to take a look. We made this move to be more open with the community because it’s important to us that you can trust what doing.
    • What is the Essential Loader?

    The Essential Loader is a system that allows Essential Mod to load efficiently. For more details, read this article:

    What is the Essential Loader?    How does world hosting work?

    Essential Mod utilizes ICE and TURN technologies to connect you and your friends in-game. In this setup, your computer acts as the 'server,' with others joining your game. Essential Mod facilitates these connections seamlessly.

    For more in-depth technical details, refer to these Wikipedia articles:

  • Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN)
  • Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE)
    • Why did Essential Mod appear without me installing it?

    Occasionally, mod creators opt to include Essential Mod in their own mods, utilising Essential Mod's suite of APIs designed for mod development. For more information on this, visit:

    Installed By Other Mods    Can Essential Mod work with TLauncher, non-premium or cracked Minecraft?

    Essential Mod only works with the official version of Minecraft. Since it needs Mojang account authentication to run, it won’t work with TLauncher or any cracked versions.

    I mistakenly disabled Essential Mod. How do I enable it again?

    To reactivate Essential Mod in Minecraft see the guide here: Re-enabling Essential

    Is cross-platform play supported?

    Essential is only for Java. That means friends on Bedrock or Pojav won’t be able to join.

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