My name is CalaMariGold and I created this website with the mission of providing Java Edition Minecraft players with a reliable source for honest and comprehensive reviews of mods and modpacks.
Finding high-quality mods and modpacks can be a daunting and time-consuming task, especially with so many options available. Not to mention, just because something is popular doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good.
That’s why I created this platform. My goal is to help players discover quality mods and modpacks. By doing so, you can get a better idea of which ones are worth trying and which ones align with your playstyle. Leaving reviews will also provide developers with valuable feedback to help them improve their creations.
The rating and review system is community-driven, meaning the reviews are honest and based on real experiences. Moderators look over every review and remove those that violate our review guidelines.
One of the things I hope to achieve through this website is to bring attention to less popular and niche mods and modpacks that may be hidden gems. I believe that there are so many fantastic creations out there that don’t get the attention they deserve, and I want to help players discover them. By providing honest and detailed reviews, I hope to encourage players to try out new mods and modpacks that they may have overlooked before.
Want to support MMC Reviews?
Donate to our Ko-fi to keep the site up!
This site relies on donations to stay up.
All donations go towards improvements and upkeep costs!
Our review guidelines are designed to maintain a respectful and informative environment on our website. When submitting a review or sharing your project, please follow these guidelines. Reviews that violate these guidelines will be removed.
- Be Authentic, Be Kind
Reviews should be honest and respectful. Constructive criticism is welcome, but disrespectful or offensive language is not allowed.
- No Hate Speech or Fraud
Avoid hate speech, personal attacks, and fraudulent information. We strive to create a friendly and safe space for all users.
- Review Content, Not Context
Do not base reviews or ratings on the Minecraft version, hardware, or mod loader the mod or modpack is designed for. Reviews that contain porting requests or lowering ratings based on such factors are not acceptable and will be removed.
- Focus on Quality and Content
Reviews and ratings must focus on the mod or modpack’s quality and content. Refrain from discussing the personal lives of developers or their decisions unrelated to the project. This also includes reviews that are solely a “copypasta” that do not actually review the project’s quality or content. Irrelevant reviews will be removed.
- In-game Screenshots Only
If you are uploading images as part of your review, they must be in-game screenshots of the mod or modpack.
- No Alternate/Multiple Accounts
You may not leave reviews on multiple accounts. If we detect you are leaving multiple reviews with different accounts, all associated accounts and IP addresses will be banned.
- Developers reviewing their own projects must be transparent
You may review projects you have developed for, however, you must be clearly transparent about your relationship to the content. Failure to do so will lead to your review being flagged or removed.
We will reach out to you on CF/Modrinth/Discord/etc in order to verify your review, where it will be marked as “✔ Project Developer”
Reviews that impersonate or falsely advertise they are a developer will be removed and have their account banned. - No Compensation for Specific Ratings/Reviews
Any form of compensation or incentives, whether direct or indirect, in exchange for specific ratings/reviews is not allowed.
Projects whose developers are found to engage in such practices will be flagged. The project’s description will include a notice stating “This project has previously offered compensation for specific reviews. Known incentivized reviews have been removed.”
- No Encouraging Specific Ratings, Raiding, or Review Bombing
Organizing or participating in campaigns to flood projects (including your own) with specific or controlled reviews/ratings is strictly prohibited. Developers of projects must not control reviews from their communities, whether positive or negative. Encouraging honest reviews is fine, but manipulating ratings is not.
Examples of what developers can and cannot say:
The point of this guideline is to prevent MMC Reviews from being a popularity contest. If all a popular developer had to do in order to be the top ranked project was ping their Discord and tell everyone to leave a 5-star review, well, this site wouldn’t be very useful.
Developers encouraging or compensating for specific ratings (especially against other projects) will face serious consequences, such as removal of reviews, permanent disabling of all reviews on their own project, and/or a notice stating this project participated in review bombing other projects.
At MMC Reviews, our entire team is carefully handpicked. One aspect of our team consists of volunteer moderators that ensure all reviews follow our guidelines. Reviews or images that violate these terms are removed, and users who repeatedly break the rules may be banned.
Developers of projects that are not directly a part of the MMC Reviews team have absolutely no say in the decision to remove reviews. If your review was removed, it was removed because it directly violated one or more of our guidelines above. Developers of projects may report reviews, just as anyone can, however the MMC Reviews team will ultimately decide if the review in question violates our guidelines. We remain neutral in most engagements and do not harbor any bias towards projects, developers, MC versions, mod loaders, etc.
If you feel we could do better, please navigate to the #reporting-and-community-issues channel on our Discord and open a ticket.
Please do! In-fact, we created a couple banners for anyone to put on their project page or modpack menu to have it link to their respective MMC Reviews page. Feel free to use our logo to make your own as well! You can find more assets on our Discord.
You can also copy and paste this code here into your CurseForge or project page. Don’t forget to link to your MMC Reviews page!
Remember to follow our Creator/Project Developer Guidelines at the top of the page when advertising your MMC Reviews page.
Fully integrating these APIs to work with MMC Review’s system is a complex and a complicated task. However, as a few users have pointed out, having all content from these providers would be a lot of bloat, as a lot of modpacks aren’t intended for the public and are just for a few friends. This way, we can highlight mods and modpacks people actually want to review. We also put a lot of focus on our categorizations (tags/themes/genres), most of which are generated by users and our team. Overtime, this site will be a much more comprehensive resource as it continues to grow its catalogue.
We’re super grateful you want to support MMC Reviews! Leaving reviews, requesting projects, and spreading the word are the best ways to support MMCR.
We also have lots of planned features, but many of them require commissioning a developer or paid plugins.
If you want to help with server costs, subscriptions, and developer commissions, you can donate to our Ko-fi. Check our Discord for planned features!
That’s really exciting to hear! MMC Reviews runs WordPress as its CMS, which uses MySQL for its database. I (CalaMariGold) frequently use PHP and JavaScript in custom scripts for MMCR. Much of this site is powered by WordPress plugins, many of which are open source. The main plugins we use for the bulk of the site are listed here:
- Site Reviews (actively in development. responsible for all aspects of reviews, ratings, and rating filtering)
- Gravity Forms (request a project and submit an edit forms)
- FacetWP, Advanced Custom Fields (filtering, tags, taxonomies, etc)
- Astra Theme (structure and design of the site)
If you’re interested in helping out with development, please reach out to me on our Discord!
We’re so glad you’re interested in helping out! Currently we’re looking for volunteers for a few roles. You can apply to any of them through our application.
We are mainly looking for people who are already heavily involved in the modded Minecraft community who have a documented and trusted background.
When sorting mods and modpacks via “Highest Ranking”, the Bayesian ranking method is used, which takes into account both the average rating and the number of ratings an item has, providing a more reliable ranking in a 5-star rating system. It balances the influence of the average rating with a “prior” or assumed rating based on a certain number of pre-existing reviews. In contrast, an average rating is simply the sum of all ratings divided by the total number of ratings, which can be misleading for projects with few ratings.
You can request a mod or modpack to the site by using our request form. It only takes a couple seconds!
Absolutely! This site is in active development and will be continuously updated with new features.
These are some ideas that are planned or considered (not guaranteed!)
See more planned/wishlist features on our Discord.
- Full public/private profile system with badges/achievements, following users, and more.
- Ability to share the link of specific reviews.
- A full resource hub for modpackers, modders, and players, containing community maintained resources such as guides, wikis, tutorials, spreadsheets, mod lists, relevant Discord servers, and more
- Trending mods and modpacks section
- Featured mods and modpacks, or “Mod/Modpack of the Week/Month”.
You can use the #reporting-and-community-issues channel on our Discord, directly message CalaMariGold, or send an email to moddedminecraftreview@gmail.com.
It sure does! In the future you will be able to subscribe to an RSS feed for specific mods/modpacks. https://mmcreviews.com/feed