8 Best LGBT+ Mods For Minecraft
These mods are great if you want to make your Minecraft experience a little more proud or want to show yourself in new ways.
The open-world design of Minecraft lets players make their own experiences with the simple building blocks that are part of the game’s artistic and social design. For many, it solidified the idea that games could be more of a test of reflexes and tactics and less of a way to relax.
This kind of experience is meaningful in a time when stress is always going up, especially for minority groups that are often at the center of drama on social media. It makes sense that Minecraft has given people who want to build an online group outside of traditional spaces a safe place to do so. As the number of players has grown, so has the passion of the makers. This has led to a healthy modding community that knows what players want. Here are some of the best mods that can help build a group with pride.
Pride Hearts
What better way to show love for yourself and others than with a colorful makeover of Minecraft’s heart system, which is surprisingly strong? Amare46’s mod changes the look of the health bar and the hearts above an NPC’s head to show how love happens in the wild.
This simple change adds a lot of diverse characters to Minecraft, like pansexual villagers who date each other and asexual foxes who become close friends. It should be mentioned, though, that since this is just a texture change, the mod may force different sexual preferences, but it’s still nice to see everyone getting along.
Spectrum Mod
When you first start playing Minecraft, it can take a long time to find raw materials and places to build a home. This can make the game’s rustic look feel a little boring. It can be fun to start a game over with a fresh coat of paint and nice-looking ores and things.
MisgenderedMisfit’s Spectrum Mod is like the beautiful and proudly gay gemstones you see at pride events, but it also gives you the ability to enchant items. Each of these minerals can be used to make tools that fit the needs of people who don’t fit the traditional gender roles. With these materials, you can also make a bunch of flags that represent 30 different LGBT groups.
Pride Elytras
The Elytra is a hard-to-get piece of clothing in Minecraft that you can only get after beating the final boss and finding a certain city in the nether. Due to how hard it is to get, most players might not find this useful item that lets them fly all over the game’s maps, which are often very big.
Even though some players might say that the Elytra is too strong, most people know how important it is. But what if this prize was moved further without changing how useful it was? Users of Bo_Tie’s Pride Elytras mod can be proud of both who they are and what they can do by flying around in a piece of clothing that looks like a beetle’s defensive front wing.
LGBT+ Addons
The world of Minecraft is one of a kind in the gaming world. The feeling of terrain, wildlife, and flora forming naturally is created by a seamless mix of random elements that help keep each game new. But even though a lot of work goes into making huge, interactive settings, there are some things that can’t be made, like unicorns.
TheBlueMan’s LGBT+ Addons pack makes world creation more flexible by adding texture variants to Minecraft’s Algorithm to show how bisexual bees, asexual axolotls, and just plain fabulous frogs naturally form. This pack turns skeleton horses into unicorns with rainbow manes, gives flowers more color choices, and adds craftable paintings by Keith Haring, who was a gay icon and an AIDS activist.
Identity
Draylar1’s Identity is an interesting new game variation that lets players play as any living thing in a Minecraft world.
At first look, this mod doesn’t seem to be gay, but exploring different points of view can help people learn more about the lives of others, which may help them become more compassionate and accepting.
Kidnap Mod
When talking about sexual preferences that are on the outside, kink is often left out of the conversation because it’s seen as too sexual to talk about in public. Even though it might not be a good idea to talk about it in public because it is uncomfortable, it is still important to learn about it and understand it for those who may have questions.
Kidnap Mod can’t be downloaded because Minecraft is played by a lot of kids, which is pretty clear. But with a quick vetting process that needs ID and is handled through private servers, Minecraft’s unique social teaching environment can be a useful tool to teach good practices like consent. Kidnap mod adds things that aren’t in Drive Mad by default. These items are often used in role-playing situations. This change could also help people who are having trouble with long-distance relationships.
Queer Music Corner
Under the Rainbow’s Queer Music Corner is a community-run mod with a simple goal: to give LGBT+ people music that they can relate to and listen to while they rest. This CD is full of songs by gay artists that talk about who they are, what they go through, and how proud they are of who they are. It’s a great way to hang out and talk with other people from all over the world who like the same games.
You can easily join in on the fun because you can suggest songs right in the mod’s comments section. These ideas will be looked at and could be added to the item, which also has links to YouTube and Spotify for friends who don’t use Minecraft to socialize. “Two queens in a king-sized bed,” “I Wanna Be a Boy,” “Can Ghosts Be Gay,” and “Jenny (I Want to Ruin Our Friendship”) are some of the best songs right now.
Ears (+ Snouts/Muzzles, Tails, Horns, Wings, And More) And Tails
Options are always a good thing to add to a free-form, open-ended game because they make it more accessible and fun for people who often feel left out of the gaming community. The main purpose of unascribed’s Ears is to help furries and hybrids express themselves in a natural and easy way.
Even though furries and hybrids don’t have a sexual or gender identity, animal identities have a lot in common with drag. People use fursuits and sonas to explore other parts of their identity in a safe way. The Ears mod, as its full name suggests, gives people a lot of ways to make their characters look and act like themselves in the blocky world of Minecraft.
But that’s not all. If you want more options for animal-like limbs, Kihira’s Tails is a great mod that adds realistic properties and more customization choices. This includes an in-game editor that lets players change the size and color of different animals, as well as add physics features and custom animations.
