Between Mons
If you love Pixelmon but grow tired of endless mining trips and slow resource grinding, Between Mons is the modpack you have been waiting for. This carefully assembled collection keeps the creature-catching spirit of Pixelmon intact while smoothing out the rough edges that make long playthroughs feel like a chore. Whether you are a solo builder or the host of a busy multiplayer server, this pack reshapes the entire gameplay loop into something far more rewarding.
What Makes Between Mons Stand Out
Between Mons is, at its heart, a quality-of-life overhaul for Pixelmon. Rather than piling on dozens of unrelated content mods, it focuses on reducing tedium and expanding creativity. The result is a pack that respects your time while still offering plenty of depth for players who enjoy progression systems.
Tools That Level Up With You
One of the headline features is the combination of Tinkerer Tools and Tool Levelling. Instead of constantly crafting replacement pickaxes and axes, your tools grow stronger as you use them. Mining, chopping wood, and digging all feed into a progression system that rewards consistent play. This single change removes a huge amount of early-game frustration and lets you focus on exploring and catching creatures.
Less Grinding, More Playing
Mystical Agriculture is the second pillar of the pack. It lets you grow the resources you need, from iron and gold to more exotic materials, right on your own farm. That means fewer hours spent strip mining and more time building, battling, and adventuring. For anyone who has bounced off a Pixelmon pack because of resource bottlenecks, this mod alone justifies the download.
Creative and Social Features
Between Mons is not just about efficiency. It is also built for fun with friends. Music Maker and The Joy of Painting let you compose tunes and create artwork together, turning your shared base into a genuine creative hub. Add in a broad selection of building, decoration, and furniture mods, and you have everything you need to design a home that feels truly yours.
- Tinkerer Tools and Tool Levelling for tools that improve as you play
- Mystical Agriculture for sustainable, farmable resources
- Music Maker and The Joy of Painting for collaborative creativity
- Expansive building, decoration, and furniture mods for base design
- A balanced Pixelmon experience that respects your time
Supported Versions and Loader
Between Mons for Minecraft is built for the Forge mod loader, which is the standard choice for Pixelmon-based packs. It targets the Minecraft 1.16.5 era of Pixelmon, where the mod is most stable and most widely supported by the community. Before you install, double-check that your Pixelmon version matches the pack requirements, since mismatched versions are the most common cause of crashes on startup.
If you would rather skip the manual setup entirely, the foxygame.net launcher handles the heavy lifting: it detects the correct Forge and Pixelmon versions, installs Between Mons with a single click, and keeps every mod in the pack updated automatically so your server never falls out of sync.
How to Install Between Mons
Getting started is straightforward, even if you have never installed a modpack before. Follow these steps and you will be exploring in no time.
Step-by-Step Setup
- Install a launcher that supports modpacks, such as the official Minecraft launcher with a modpack profile or a third-party option.
- Download Between Mons from a trusted source and confirm the file matches the recommended version.
- Create a new profile and allocate at least 4 GB of RAM, since Pixelmon and its dependencies are memory-hungry.
- Launch the profile once to let all mods generate their config files.
- Restart the game, then create a world or join your multiplayer server.
Tips for a Smooth First Launch
If the game crashes on the first run, check that your Java version matches the one required by your Minecraft version. For 1.16.5 packs, Java 8 is usually the safe choice. Also make sure you are not mixing mods from different Pixelmon releases, as even small version gaps can break the pack.
Who Should Play Between Mons
This pack suits a wide range of players. Builders will appreciate the decoration and furniture options. Farmers and engineers will love Mystical Agriculture. Groups of friends will get the most out of the music and painting mods. And anyone who has ever quit a Pixelmon world out of sheer grind fatigue will find Between Mons refreshingly respectful of their time.
Between Mons proves that a modpack does not need to be enormous to be transformative. By trimming the busywork and amplifying the creative and social sides of Pixelmon, it delivers an experience that stays fun for dozens of hours. Download Between Mons, gather your friends, and rediscover why you fell in love with this game in the first place.