Addendum to Fabric drama.
Subsequently, saveminecraft.org removed the article, citing "harrassment" and "witch hunting" as reason.
Founder of the project, DamienReave99, came back from hiatus, and banned multiple users participating in the project's Discord politics channel. Lead maintainer, Exa, disagreed with these actions, reverted the bans, and hard-forked Omnifactory into Nomifactory. On the 11th of November 2022, Omnifactory was sold to TheBobs Gaming Network, as indicated by this Discord announcement.
Crowdin Afrikaans translation contains offensive slurs. If you want to try that version, grab the client from one of the archives, open MultiMc or one of its clones, create a 1.2.1 instance, in Version menu, click on Replace Minecraft.jar, select the downloaded jar.
The snapshot is so old that it cannot be downloaded through any launcher, it's not even officially publicly available.
Canadian modder, known mainly for the mods RotaryCraft and ChromatiCraft. Also known for firmly standing by his decision of not updating past 1.7.10, and mod redistribution restrictions.
From around October 2022. The project can be opened with exactly the version EAP 2022.2 b31711 of MCreator.
Azanor, creator of the Thaumcraft Minecraft mod, has been criticized for using uncredited assets, including the Thaumonomicon icon, which was taken directly from the game Tibia (Wikipedia). Other reused textures have also been identified.
It is worth to note, that Azanor has issued DMCA takedowns against projects containing decompiled Thaumcraft code.
Azanor retired from modding around January 2019.
The author of the mod Mowzie's Mobs, Bob Mowzie, has announced the barakoa mob will be reworked, because some people consider it racist.
u/independence15 made an in-depth Reddit post about contacting the Mowzie's Mobs Team about the issue. The post also explains the motivations.
The controversy was sparked by a clip of FitMC encountering the Barakoa mob, and saying the phrases "onga bonga", and "ooga booga" to them.
On July 13th, 2023, cpw (X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky (external archive)) announced a hard fork of the Forge project: NeoForged (external archive). The reason was parting way with LexManos, founder of Forge. LexManos owns the brand, thus, the fork had to rebrand. Cpw states that "Lex has been a problem in the modding community for many, many years". It is not mentioned in the article, but LexManos liked some controversial xeets on X (formerly Twitter), it is speculated that this was the primary separation reason.
Early September 2021, some Divine Journey 2 users accused the rythm-based Totemic rituals of being discriminatory towards people with no rythm, or disabilities.
Around early October 2025, the Russian government contacted the Modrinth team, and requested the takedown of "LGBTQ+-themed" mods. The Modrinth team reports weighing their options for five hours, and proceeds to comply: "We believed that removing the four projects was less censorship than losing access to Modrinth entirely for Russian users". On the next day, the team backtracked on their decision: "That choice, made under pressure and with little time, was short-sighted. It was not consistent with our values, our support of the LGBTQ+ community, or our stance against censorship".
On June 6th, Vazkii, the author of the Quark mod, uploaded its version r2.1-241, for Minecraft 1.15.2. The changelog states Bug fixes and performance improvements. This version introduces a black screen with a 8m46s countdown, which is displayed upon pressing the single or multiplayer button. The screen tells about George Floyd & the Black Lives Matter movement, and, upon clicking, redirects to blacklivesmatter.carrd.co (local archive, external archive). A subsequent version (r2.1-244), made the black screen appear only once per Minecraft instance.
A couple mods were created, which removed the message, and were removed by Curseforge [source 1 (local archive, external archive), source 2 (local archive, external archive)]. A Quark fork named "Buark" (local archive, external archive), was also removed.
