Decor Essential
by RetroCat7
Decor Essential adds decorative blocks, three biomes, five wood types and sixteen-colour glass and terracotta to NeoForge for 1.21.1.
What it does
The mod targets builders who want blocks that vanilla does not offer. It adds three biomes, Beechwood Forest, Maple Forest and Dark Cherry Grove, with their own trees and plants. Five wood types, Beechwood, Briar, Bush, Maple and Dark Cherry, each come with a set of planks, stairs, slabs and fences. New plank variants include boards, mosaic and vertical patterns, and a custom crafting table extends the mod's recipe options. Soul Stone blocks generate in the Soul Sand Valleys biome of the Nether.
The mod also covers stone and colour. Glass comes as single-texture blocks and panes in sixteen colours, with glass stairs and slabs, plus standard glass. Terracotta bricks and glazed terracotta tiles add further colour sets. Packed blue ice, cut brick, calcite and basalt variants, polished brick variants and a moss quarter slab extend the stone palette. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Files are published for NeoForge only, for 1.21.1, with v0.1.3 as the latest file. It is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
Three new biomes
Beechwood Forest, Maple Forest and Dark Cherry Grove add terrain with their own trees and plants.
Five new wood types
Beechwood, Briar, Bush, Maple and Dark Cherry each supply a full set of wooden building blocks.
Sixteen-colour glass and terracotta
Single-texture glass, glass stairs and slabs, terracotta bricks and glazed terracotta tiles come in sixteen colours each.
Custom crafting table
A dedicated crafting table adds recipes that the standard table does not provide.
Stone and brick variants
Calcite, basalt, cut brick, polished brick and moss quarter slab blocks extend the stone palette.
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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
MoreTrees is open source under the MIT License and runs on Fabric and NeoForge across 1.21.11 – 26.2, so it covers a much wider version range. NiBS Maple Forest is limited to 1.21.8 on NeoForge, and it is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 and not open source. Terracotta Expansion covers Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.8 under All rights reserved, which means it spans more loaders than Decor Essential does.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decor Essential | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-10-12 |
| MoreTrees | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.11 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-06-30 |
| NiBS Maple Forest | NeoForge | 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-11-22 |
| Terracotta Expansion | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2026-03-29 |
Questions
Does Decor Essential need to be on the server?
Which game versions does Decor Essential support?
Are the recipes for the new blocks available?
In the catalog
Decor Essential is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,175 World generation mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Everything you ever wanted for decoration, plus more! Decor Esssential adds three news biomes, five new wood types, a new stone found in the nether, a brand new custom crafting table, and extentions to the many stones and colourful blocks in the game!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/decor-essential
- Owner
- RetroCat7
- Published
- 2026-09-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-12
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15