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.

Download Essential Mod for enhanced Minecraft features, Minecraft hosting, character customization, and more!

This guide explains how to install shaders alongside Essential Mod, to enhance your game with stunning shaders.

Wondering how to play Minecraft with friends? Joining friends in Minecraft is super easy with Essential Mod. Follow these steps yo join friends on both Minecraft worlds and Minecraft servers.

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.

Essential Mod only works with the official version of Minecraft. Since it needs Mojang account authentication to run, it won’t work with TLauncher or any cracked versions.

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 …

With Essential Mod, you can easily add friends and chat with them anywhere, even together as a group. Learn how to add and manage your friends on Essential Mod.

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

Essential Mod can fail to authenticate your connection due to various reasons. Learn how to resolve these common issues.