NeoForge
21.1.244 or newerThe mod loader itself. This is a NeoForge mod — it will not load on Fabric, and the old Forge builds are a separate, older branch.
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Installation
Get Solo Leveling running
Two required files, a handful of optional ones, and the official texture pack. Ten minutes if you have installed a mod before.
Versions
Two branches
Pick the one your pack or server uses
1.3.0 — NeoForgeUpdated
Minecraft 1.21.1NeoForge 21.1.244+
The version in active development, and what this wiki documents. New content lands here.
Last Forge buildNo longer updated
Minecraft 1.20.1Forge 47.2.0
Still playable and still downloadable — most modpacks, including ProFake's, run on it. It no longer receives updates, and it differs substantially from 1.3.0, so pages here will not always match it.
This wiki documents 1.3.0 on NeoForge
Everything here is written against 1.3.0 for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge. The 1.20.1 Forge build is still available and still played, but it is no longer updated and differs substantially, so expect pages here not to match it. Back up any world you care about before moving between branches.
Required
You need these two
The mod will not start without them
GeckoLib
4.9.2 up to (not including) 5.0Drives every animated model in the mod — bosses, shadows, weapons. Nothing renders correctly without it, and a 5.x build will not work.
Optional
Strongly worth having
The mod runs fine without any of them
Better Combat
Recommended2.4 up to (not including) 3.0The mod ships dedicated Better Combat support: SLR weapons get proper attack animations and swing arcs instead of the vanilla flail. The single biggest feel upgrade you can install.
Sodium
Recommended0.6.13 up to (not including) 0.9Rendering performance. SLR throws a lot of particles and shader work at the screen during boss fights, and Sodium is what keeps that playable on modest hardware.
Client onlyModrinth
Iris Shaders
1.8 up to (not including) 1.9Shader support. The mod's own visual effects are built to sit alongside Iris rather than fight it, so gates and abilities hold up with shaders on.
Client onlyModrinth
Companions
Packs built for this mod
Official texture packSolo Leveling: Arsenalby ZerotekzThe official companion pack. Replaces SLR's daggers, swords, katanas, bows and axes with 3D models. 1.6M downloads, and it covers both 1.20.1 and 1.21.1.Modpack · 1.20.1 ForgeSolo Leveling - Reawakeningby ProFakeA genuinely well-built pack around the mod, and by far the most played — 1.7M downloads. Note it runs the older 1.20.1 Forge branch, so it will not match the 1.3.0 pages here.Community modpackRise of the Dark Sovereignby Jo_ZenA community pack built on top of SLR, with its own dungeon and ability curation.
Step by step
Putting it together
- 01
Install NeoForge
Get the 21.1.244 installer or newer for Minecraft 1.21.1 from neoforged.net and run it. Launch the game once on the new NeoForge profile so it creates your
modsfolder. - 02
Drop in the mod and GeckoLib
Put the SLR jar and a 4.9.x GeckoLib jar into
mods. Two files, same folder. Version-matching GeckoLib matters more than people expect — a 5.x build fails. - 03
Add the optional pieces
Better Combat if you want proper weapon animations, Sodium if you want frames. Both go in the same
modsfolder. Neither is required to play. - 04
Add the Arsenal pack
Download Solo Leveling: Arsenal and drop it in
resourcepacks, then enable it in Options → Resource Packs. It is a texture pack, not a mod, so it does not go inmods. - 05
Create a world
World creation has a Solo Leveling tab: Story Mode, progression speed, difficulty, XP rate, job change level, gate access and death rules. You can leave every one of them alone and play the intended defaults.
Addons
Made for Solo Leveling
Install the mod first — these need it
SoloCraft: Voice Commands
OfficialTo be releasedMade by
Hold a key, say "Arise", and the shadows rise
Cast Arise by saying it out loud. Recognition runs entirely on your own machine — no AI, no model download, no API key, no account, and no network traffic. The mod matches your voice against recordings you make yourself during a short enrollment.
1.21.1 · NeoForge
Also wants: Simple Voice Chat 2.6.20+, required — it supplies the microphone feed
Not released yet. Needs SLR 1.3.0, so it ships alongside that.
No download yet
Solo Leveling: System
PartneredMade by
The System, lifted off the screen and into the world
Replaces the flat System GUI with a holographic, world-space interface: 3D panels that exist in the world rather than on your screen, radial navigation, and interactive windows. Built specifically for Solo Leveling: Reawakening.
1.21.1 · 1.20.1 · NeoForge · Forge
Also wants: Oculus, optional, for shader support
Followed SLR onto 1.21.1 NeoForge. The older 1.20.1 Forge build is still downloadable, but the author marks it as the old version.
SoloCraft: Dungeon Expansion
Made bysaruki
Forty-one dungeons, and a campaign you are not meant to finish clean
A content pack the size of a second mod: 41 dungeons across every gate rank, 219 custom creatures, and a 56-step campaign paying out a fixed number of skill points — fewer than it costs to buy everything. Guild standing, Jeju Island and crystal cutting sit on top of SLR's own systems rather than replacing them.
1.21.1 · NeoForge
Also wants: GeckoLib 4.9.2 or newer, required; NeoForge 21.1.244 or newer
Built against SLR 1.3.x on the 1.21.1 NeoForge branch. English only so far.
SLR: Forgeworks
Made byMikaHa
Magic beasts start dropping something worth carrying home
Turns kills into materials and materials into gear. Six ranked drop types come off beasts by creature family, and six workstations — four of them wired into a shared mana grid — cut, forge and assemble those drops into crystal alloy weapons and armour that pass vanilla from D-rank up.
1.21.1 · NeoForge
Also wants: GeckoLib, required; JEI, optional — a recipe page per station; JER, optional — which beasts drop what, at which rank, at what odds
Needs SLR 1.3.1+. The author is explicit that the balance numbers are still test data — see the last section.
Solo Leveling: Gate Compass
Made byGoldMaster_CZ
Stop sweeping the horizon for a gate you already found
A compass band on the HUD that marks every gate it knows about by its true bearing and rank, with the distance in blocks once you turn to face one. It keeps tracking gates after they fall outside render distance, so going back to one stops being a search.
1.21.1 · NeoForge
Also wants: NeoForge 21.1+ and Java 21
Needs SLR 1.3.1. First release — a Secretary NPC, a Gate Tracker item and an Immersive Mode are listed as planned, not shipped.
SLR: Better Admin Control
Made byMikaHa
Every SLR rule in one panel, plus seven knobs SLR keeps welded together
An in-game admin panel for SLR's world rules, sorted into six pages instead of memorised as gamerule names. Adds seven scaling rules that pull SLR's combined enemy and boss values apart, and translates the settings whose raw numbers read as nonsense.
1.21.1 · NeoForge
Also wants: SoloCraft: Dungeon Expansion, optional — adds a second page for that pack's own world rules
Needs SLR 1.3.1+. Server-side: a joining client needs nothing installed.
Multiplayer
Playing with other people
Every player and the server need the same mod version and the same GeckoLib version. Mismatches disconnect rather than degrade. Optional client-side mods — Sodium, Iris, the Arsenal pack — do not need to match, since the server never sees them.