Recommended Mods, Websites, Software and Servers

This is a list of recommended Mods, Websites, Software and Servers, some directly related to NBT and some loosely related but still useful.

(Fabric) Mods

image-left NBT Editor

NBT Editor is the current pinnacle of NBT Editing Mods, making creating and editing items a breeze, with a variety of advanced features, including the ability to Import and Export .nbt files, retrieval of “lost” items via its /get lostitem history command, and its amazing Client Chest, which by default has 100 large chests’ space for items, but can be expanded infinitely.

image-left NBT Autocomplete

NBT Autocomplete auto-suggests appropriate components, tags and values, making item-creation via commands incredibly easy. It also is fully integrated with NBT Editor, allowing you to use it in all the relevant screens and menus.

image-left FZMM

FZMM is a somewhat niche but still incredible mod, offering tons of advanced features like creating Lore Art/Hologram Art, modifying Player Head Data to add custom textures, a GUI for designing Banners, and an excellent array of tools to give text everything from simple colors to beautiful gradients.

image-left CFX

CFX blocks a variety of exploits and vulnerabilities found in Minecraft, with patches for versions 1.14.0 to 1.21.4. Very useful when working with Abuse items, or other dangerous bits of NBT.

image-left MoulberrysTweaks

MoulberrysTweaks is a collection of fixes, tweaks, enhancements and improvements from the creator of Axiom and Flashback. Of particular interest to item-makers and NBT enthusiasts is the Item Component and Packet Debug widgets.

image-left Component Viewer

Component Viewer is an effective if rather rudimentary way of viewing an items data, by displaying it in the tooltip, with keybinds to toggle visibility and cycle through the components.

image-left Map.png

Map.png allows downloading and converting Minecraft maps to .png images at the press of a keybind, in both Single and Multiplayer gamemodes.

See also: Map to Image

image-left Armor Stands

Armor Stands allows editing truly anything about an armor stand, from its individual limbs and their position, to pre-set poses, precise positioning and inventory, all with clean, well designed menus.

image-left Librarian

Librarian overhauls the existing feature of Saved Hotbars, and while its main feature of allowing infinite hotbars is amazing enough, it also features overwrite protection, so you’ll never accidentally lose items again, as well as renaming hotbars to help you keep everything organized.

image-left Symbol Chat

Symbol Chat adds a menu to Chat, Signs, Books, and most other Text Inputs that allows you to use different fonts, and all manner of unicode symbols. You can search for and favorite any UNICODE symbol, even those unsupported by Minecraft.

image-left SongPlayer

Song Player plays valid .midi and .nbs song files on Note Blocks. While this alone (and how it does it) is fairly impressive, the NBT aspect comes in with Song Items: Items with song data encoded to them in an NBT tag, allowing sharing of songs so other users can play them without having copies of the files. Now that’s impressive.

Websites

image-left MCStacker

MCStacker is an online Command/NBT generator that allows you to choose the command and features, and then generates it for you. Generators are provided for each Minecraft version from 1.7 onward, so be sure to use the correct one!

image-left GamerGeeks

GamerGeeks provides a variety of generators similar to MCStacker, though with a more visually pleasing UI. It also provides some utilities similar to MCUtils,

image-left Block Display Engine

Block Display Engine is a 3D editor and command generator for Minecraft’s display entities, enabling you to bring custom 3D models into your Minecraft worlds without the use of mods or resource packs. The site also contains a library of user-created display entities for use in your world.

See also: Block Display Engine App.

image-left MapartCraft

MapartCraft is the do-it-all site for Mapart, where you can upload an image and customize the dithering, size, blocks used, etc. before either saving the preview image or downloading the map as a Schematic (.nbt) or Data (.dat) file.

image-left ObjToSchematic

Obj To Schematic converts 3D model files such as .obj and .glb files into .schematic, .schem, .litematic, .nbt and .json files, with tons of settings to tweak and customize the output.

There is also an (older) application version of this site available at LucasDower/ObjToSchematic on GitHub.

image-left MCUtils

MCUtils holds a wide array of utilities for Minecraft, ranging from Server Info and Skin Stealers, to Firework Creators and even a database of Noteblock Songs.

image-left Item NBT -> Components

Item NBT -> Components is a tool for converting Item NBT data in the form of SNBT to the Minecraft 1.20.5+ Component Data, with output as JSON, Command and SNBT data.

image-left Minetrim

Minetrim is a tool to create and view different armor trim combinations, making it easier to design armor sets by showing what the final result will be, and what ingredients or data is needed.

Software

image-left Block Display Engine App

Block Display Engine is a 3D editor and command generator for Minecraft’s display entities, enabling you to bring custom 3D models into your Minecraft worlds without the use of mods or resource packs. The app is the same as the website, but in a standalone app format with improved performance.

image-left Map-to-Image

map-to-img is a fairly obscure tool for converting Minecraft maps to images. Be sure to use the Antiflux fork linked, as it fixes two critical bugs regarding colors.

See also: Map.png

image-left MCA Selector

MCA Selector is intended to be used as a tool for exporting or deleting chunks from a Minecraft world; What it can also be used for, is mass-editing the NBT of selected chunks. Ever needed to mass-edit the DataVersion tag of several hundred chunks? I have, and MCA Selector did when nothing else could/would!

image-left NBT Studio

NBT Studio is one of the best External NBT Editors, capable of editing any .nbt file with ease. Significant knowledge of NBT is needed to use it effectively.

Servers

image-left NBT Archives

NBT Archives is the largest public collection of Component Data for Minecraft, where users can easily submit their creations for all to see. Join it via play.nbtarchives.net!