Minecraft asks us to invest an unreasonable amount of time into the game to get quality gear. If you're playing more casually like me, small quality of life tweaks go a long way.

More Slime Spawns - Slimes are painfully rare in vanilla Minecraft. To make them easier to find, slimes will now generate in ALL chunks below y=0!

Better Piglin Trades - Piglin trades in vanilla are boring and mostly yield junk. With Essentials, the loot tables have been stripped down to only the important items, in rarities that feel fair. A less common reward that Piglins may offer is a stack of 10-20 "Wither Arrows", which give mobs the wither effect on hit.

Cheaper Netherite Recipes - Ancient debris is tedious to mine, and you need to find 4 whole blocks to craft a single netherite ingot. If you don't have the time for that, Essentials makes the recipes for netherite ingots and blocks cheaper.

Smeltable Redstone - For people who aren't into building highly technical circuits frequently, you'll have a lot of redstone laying around just taking up space. In Essentials, you can smelt redstone blocks to convert their redstone energy into experience points. You'll get 7 exp per redstone block.

Versatile Copper - Unless you want to make a building out of copper, there is almost no reason to pick up this painfully common ore. Essentials adds a few new uses, including the ability to craft tridents out of copper, finally making them easily obtainable in Java edition.

Botanical Duplication - In Essentials, you can duplicate any flower or lily pad using a bonemeal in the crafting table, making these sometimes scarce resources more easy to stockpile.

Recommended Datapacks:

Altar Enchanting Overhaul provides a complete overhaul of the enchanting system as well as new custom enchantments.

Framey adds additional utility for item frames, allowing you to lock their rotation or make them frameless.

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