Essential uses industry leading peer-to-peer technology and the power of your PC’s hardware to empower you to host Minecraft worlds and invite your friends with ease and for free.

Jan 21, 2010 · Download Essential Mod for enhanced Minecraft features, Minecraft hosting, character customization, and more!

Essential Mod is incompatible with pirated versions of Minecraft, as it necessitates Mojang's authentication process. To fully enjoy Essential Mod, we recommend purchasing the game from …

You are in control of Essential Mod updates! Learn how to manage Essential Mod updates. Enable automatic updates or keep it manual.

React to your friends in Minecraft with a variety of free and premium Essential Mod exclusive emotes. Celebrate with a dance or greet them with a wave. Learn how to unlock and apply emotes to the …

Sometimes mods and modpacks don’t work properly with Essential Mod. Learn about which mods are likely to conflict with Essential Mod and how to remove them.

Unlock premium cosmetics and emotes with Essential Coins! Discover how to use coins to access exclusive wardrobe items and support your favorite Minecraft creators.

This incident has been resolved. Users should be able to access the Essential network again. If you are still unable to connect to Essential, please try restarting your game. If problems persist after that, …

Essential Mod uses a whitelist to make sure only friends you've invited can join your hosted world. If someone sees a message saying they’re not whitelisted, it usually means the host (that’s you!) is …

Learn how to manually install Essential Mod and its required modloader for the vanilla Minecraft launcher.