Minecraft is one of the biggest gaming IPs in modern times, with the game amassing a huge fanbase that is still actively engaged in creating the most mind-blowing creations. The sheer amount of love for Minecraft is truly immense, which is why it was only a given until spinoffs would release for this title, as well. This is where Minecraft Dungeons comes into the picture.
A dungeon crawler that utilizes the world of Minecraft to create an engaging action title with a wealth of excellent experiences, Minecraft Dungeons is a title that no fan of action-heavy dungeon crawlers should sleep on. This is especially true for fans of the original game, who will find this game to be absolutely loaded with a wealth of amazing content to choose from.
That being said, some people are bound to get bored with the vanilla experience. To alleviate this boredom, you can download the following mods to enhance your experience with Minecraft Dungeons.
Updated March 14, 2023, by David Kinder: Since Mojang wrapped up the DLCs for Minecraft Dungeons, gameplay for some players will have begun to grow stale. The good news is that the Minecraft Dungeons modding community is still thriving. There are dozens of mods offering new challenges and fun cosmetic accessories. Some mods also implement quality-of-life changes that didn't cut.
10 Faster Startup Screen
Booting up Minecraft Dungeons can be somewhat of a pain due to the various intro screens that end up making you wait to jump in. Given how powerful most systems are, it won't really take that long to load the game anyway. Even then, when you want to play a game, you want it to load as quickly as possible.
This is where the Faster Startup Screen mod comes into the picture. True to its name, the mod ends up hastening the intro videos to shorten the load time of the game.
9 Rustic Loading Screens
The default loading screens of Minecraft Dungeons aren't really anything to write home about. In fact, they can get downright boring to look at after a while.
Players who want the loading screens of this game to have somewhat more style and panache should definitely check out the Rustic Loading Screens mod. It replaces the default loading screens with a more stylish one, and even includes stories from a random adventurer in the game's world to add even more flavor to the proceedings.
8 Various Pet Mods
Players of Minecraft Dungeons will quickly encounter a lovable chicken that will accompany you as your pet throughout the entire game. However, regardless of how cute or adorable said chicken might be, there are some of you who might understandably want their pet to look and feel somewhat different.
This is where the various pet mods for Minecraft Dungeons come into the picture. These mods allow the base chicken mod to be replaced by a strider, panda, wither, creeper, dragon, phantom, or anything else that might suit their fancy.
7 FreeCam Beta
Do you ever want to play a game with a new perspective or have a tool to check out small details? The FreeCam Beta mod gives players free range to break away from the overhead camera angle. Maybe there's a neat Easter Egg hidden in somewhere out of sight.
However, Minecraft Dungeons wasn't created with a free-angle camera in mind. You'll immediately notice how the world is carefully built around camera-specific angles. And the reason is simple: if a player isn't going to see the details, there's no point in making it.
6 Cosmetics
The Cosmetics mod adds a handful of togglable and wearable mob heads and simple accessories. While you can farm mob heads in Minecraft, you don't have that option in Dungeons. Even after the season pass finished development, Minecraft Dungeons didn't implement similar cosmetics.
This is why mods exist. Sometimes you want to show off and run a victory lap around a challenging boss. There's no harm in a little showboating. And at other times, clearing out areas while wearing a rubber ducky floatie has that missing dork factor.
5 DualShock 4 Icons
It's downright criminal for modern games to not have adaptive systems that change controller buttons based on the device that is currently plugged in. This is the case with Minecraft Dungeons, which features the classic Xbox prompts for controllers even if players have connected a DualShock to their system.
This is where the DualShock 4 Icons mod comes into the picture. In a bid to make the game less confusing for PlayStation users, this mod adds the icons of the DualShock 4 controller — a boon for players who absolutely detest the controller prompts in the original game.
4 Taiga Camp
Nothing beats the relief of entering the game's camp after a hard day of dungeon crawling. Even that ease can get dull by the same sights. As comforting as familiarity is, Minecraft has taught us that you can redesign the world as you like.
For these players, the Taiga Camp mod is the perfect solution to negate the issues caused by this problem. Players don't need to be worried about this camp causing problems in multiplayer — the only issues caused by this mod will be just a few visual glitches and nothing more.
3 Cacti Waves
Given the engagingly simple combat system in Minecraft Dungeons, it needs more challenge for the sake of veterans and replayability. It's ripe for an arena-style fight where waves upon waves of enemies siege players. The Cacti Waves mod addresses that goal and more.
The mod replaces Cacti Canyon with an arena map where players have to fight a whopping twenty-five waves of enemies. It's a challenging gauntlet, but well-prepared players, who end up throwing everything but the kitchen sink in this high-stakes battle, will undoubtedly enjoy a heightened sense of satisfaction after battling all these waves.
2 Too Many Outfits Now With Capes
Character customization is an integral part of any RPG, and Minecraft Dungeons is no exception to this golden rule. Some players have certainly lamented the fact that the outfits featured in this game don't allow for deeper and more robust customization.
This can be changed with this mod, which does exactly what is stated in the name. The sheer number of outfits added in this mod is truly mind-boggling, with a total of 100 new skins added to the main game. Along with this, the mod also adds 16 capes, as well, to add even more flair to one's character design.
1 Boss Rush
There are several bosses in Minecraft Dungeons who can be quite rewarding to defeat after blasting through a level and taking care of the threats that lie within. However, it would be amazing to deal with a multitude of these bosses at once.
This is — obviously enough — what the Boss Rush mod aims to accomplish. In fact, this mod ramps up the difficulty even further by adding three units of every boss for each wave. It's a truly challenging mod that only the most accomplished veterans of this game should try out.