Contrasting Curses
by RoarkCats
Contrasting Curses adds 20 curses spread evenly across equipment types, each with a trade-off that players can weigh against the benefit it brings.
What it does
The curses are sorted by type, so each item category receives its own set. Cursed gear is tuned around its drawback: a cursed pickaxe cannot receive fortune or silk touch, and cursed armor cannot receive protection. Several curses have niche uses or specific buffs that reward playing around them, while most stay negative by design.
Some curses apply effects during play. A misfired arrow stays desynced on the client until it hits the ground, a known Minecraft projectile issue. Holding or wearing an item with a curse has a 10% chance per enchantment to drain several hunger haunches every 30 seconds. Blocks mined with a cursed tool can apply mining fatigue lasting 10 to 30 seconds. A thundering curse doubles the chance of a thunderstorm, a fishing curse lowers luck by 2, and another spawns a monster nearby 30% of the time, which can wake the player from a nightmare.
The server must run the mod, while players may leave it out, so only the server needs the install for the curses to apply. It has a datapack variant for servers, and it is not open source: it is released under All rights reserved. Files exist for 1.21 and 1.21.1, with 1.0.2 for 1.21.1 as the latest build on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt. It is compatible with the Modification Infinity enchantment, and its curses can be combined with commands from other mods.
Key features
Twenty unique curses
Twenty separate curses are distributed across equipment types, so each category has its own set of drawbacks.
Type-based restrictions
Cursed pickaxes and cursed armor each lose access to enchantments that match their role, such as fortune or protection.
Chance-based effects
Several curses trigger randomly, including hunger loss, thunderstorm changes and monster spawns near the player.
Mining fatigue on hit
Cursed tools apply mining fatigue for 10 to 30 seconds, stacking across roughly one or two blocks hit.
Leveled curses addon
A separate addon lets players use curses at more than a single level, while the default set stays at one level.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
TSFlareon's Cool Curses is released under the MIT License and built for 1.21.1 on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt; the server runs it, and clients can skip it. No More Curses shares the loaders and the server-side setup but covers 1.21 – 1.21.6 and is released under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0. Curses and Cryptics is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, supports Fabric and NeoForge, and needs both the client and the server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contrasting Curses | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-07-02 |
| TSFlareon's Cool Curses | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2025-08-19 |
| No More Curses | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.6 | Server required, client optional | 2025-06-30 |
| Curses and Cryptics | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.5 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-02-23 |
Questions
Does Contrasting Curses need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders does Contrasting Curses support?
Is there a way to use leveled curses?
In the catalog
Contrasting Curses is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,630 Magic mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
📕 Adds a collection of 20 unique curses spread across all types of equipment equally with interesting tradeoffs crafted in to encourage interaction with cursed gear. While all curses are generally negative, some may have useful niche applications or specific buffs when playing around them. 🪄 This datapack was made…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/contrasting-curses
- Owner
- RoarkCats
- Published
- 2026-06-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15