5 best Minecraft mods to play in Mounts of Mayhem update

Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem is the latest game drop that was released in December, 2025. It was the last game drop of 2025, featuring the nautilus, spear, zombie horse, camel husk, parched skeleton, and more. After every game drop, players try to find the mods that are compatible with it, so that they can continue to enjoy new vanilla features with various mods.

Here is a list of some of the Minecraft mods that are currently updated to the Mounts of Mayhem game drop 1.21.11.

Note: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer's opinion.

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5 great mods updated for Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem game drop

1) Just Enough Items

Just Enough Items is a must-have mod for any modded version (Image via Mojang Studios || CurseForge/mezz)

Just Enough Items (JEI) is arguably the most popular and important mod to have in almost any modded game version. It is a quality-of-life mod that adds a brand new GUI, showcasing every single block or item, its crafting recipe, its uses, and more. If a player selects an item from their inventory, the mod will showcase what it can be used for in the game.

Apart from that, players can also search for any block or item they want and see what can be done with it. There is no need to unlock a specific block or item's recipe in order to find it through JEI.

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2) AppleSkin

AppleSkin adds details about Minecraft food items and hunger bar system (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

AppleSkin is another important and highly useful mod to use in Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem. This mod adds various food and hunger-related details. It adds certain useful values to every food item. For example, if players hover over a food item in their inventory, they will see the number of hunger and saturation points one unit of it will replenish. For example, an enchanted golden apple replenishes only two hunger points, but four and a half saturation points.

Those who are new to the game will greatly appreciate this mod since it showcases what each food item does to their character.

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3) Towns and Towers

Towns and Towers is a great structure mod (Image via Mojang Studios || CurseForge/Biban_Auriu)

Towns & Towers is a mod that adds loads of new Pillager Outposts and villages in Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem. It is essentially a structure mod, drawing inspiration from the 1.14 game update.

The structures that the mod adds are more detailed than their vanilla counterparts, but they still fit seamlessly into the game's world. As per the modder, some of the design cues are inspired by real-life buildings or architectural styles. The mod offers over 50 structures, which can be quite fun to explore.

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4) Tough as Nails

Tough as Nails adds a temperature bar as an added difficulty (Image via Mojang Studios || CurseForge/TheAdubbz)

Tough as Nails is a unique mod that adds a temperature feature in Minecraft. Even if players walk around in snowy biomes or deserts, they are not affected by the biome's temperature. Hence, this mod takes the game's difficulty to a whole new level by adding temperature. Players can freeze to death or burn in different biomes.

This is a great immersive mod for those who want an added layer of challenge in Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem.

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5) Friends & Foes

This mod adds all the mobs that lost the mob votes (Image via Mojang Studios || CurseForge/Faboslav)

Mojang used to host mob vote competitions, in which players were allowed to vote between three mobs, and the one with the highest number of votes was added to the game. While the winner was added to the game, the losers were shelved in Mojang's idea pit.

However, this mod, called Friends & Foes, adds all the mobs that were lost during the mob vote competitions. For example, the mod adds crabs, glare, tuff golem, and many more creatures to Minecraft.

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Edited by Akshat Kabra