Cherished Worlds | Never Lose a Favorite World Again

You know the moment. Your world list has grown past forty entries, the survival base you have been building for months is buried somewhere in the middle, and every launch turns into a scrolling hunt. Worse, the delete button sits one careless click away from hundreds of hours of progress. Cherished Worlds fixes this with a star system that pins your most important worlds to the top and locks them against accidental deletion. With roughly 34 million downloads, it is one of the most popular quality-of-life mods in the game, and it is easy to see why.

Pin Favorite Worlds to the Top of the List

Once the mod is installed, an empty star icon appears next to every world on the world select screen. Click the star and that world is bookmarked. Bookmarked worlds always show up at the top, no matter how long the list below them gets. You can favorite as many worlds as you want. When several are starred, they order internally by the date you last played them, so the world you touched most recently sits highest among your pinned entries. You can also favorite a fresh world right from the world creation screen, a feature the developer added in a later release.

The second half of the feature is protection. While a world is starred, the mod removes the ability to delete it. The only way to delete that world is to un-star it first, which adds just enough friction to stop a misclick from wiping a save you care about.

Bookmark Multiplayer Servers Too

The same stars appear on your multiplayer server list. If you rotate between a survival server, a mini-game hub, and a friend's world, star the ones you use daily and they jump to the top every time you open the screen. Because the mod is client-side only, this works on vanilla servers and heavily modded networks alike, and nothing gets installed on the server itself. Your bookmarks live in your own client and only change how the server list is shown to you.

Backup Prompts, Accessibility, and Mod Compatibility

The protection goes one step further. If you open a favorited world that was last played on an older version of the game, the mod intercepts the launch with a Confirm and Backup screen. You get a chance to back the world up before the game upgrades it, which is exactly the safety net you want if you collect seed worlds from our top 10 Minecraft seeds for September 2026 and keep one save per seed. A config option lets you toggle that backup prompt if you would rather skip it.

The star icons got attention too. A recent release added screen-reader narration and keyboard navigation for the stars, plus cleaner rendering with focused and hovered states, so the feature works for players who rely on assistive technology. On the compatibility side, older builds occasionally clashed with menu mods that edit the same screens, including FancyMenu. Those problems were patched across several releases, and current versions are built for native compatibility with menu mods out of the box.

How to Install Cherished Worlds

Cherished Worlds is client-side only, so you install it on your own game and never on a server.

1. Pick your loader. The mod runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and Quilt, so grab the file built for the one you play on.
2. Download it from the official project page. If you are on Forge, also download SpectreLib, because the Forge build depends on it.
3. Drop the jar file (or both files on Forge) into your mods folder.
4. Launch the game through your loader profile and open the singleplayer world list.
5. Click the empty star next to a world. It fills in, the world jumps to the top, and the delete option is locked until you un-star it.

FAQ

Does Cherished Worlds work on multiplayer servers?

Yes. It works on the server selection screen as well as the singleplayer world list, and because it is client-side only it works with vanilla and modded servers alike. Server side is listed as unsupported, which just means the server does not need it installed.

Does the mod have config options?

Only a small set. The main documented option toggles the backup prompt that appears when you load an older favorited world. Full configuration documentation is still being built out by the developer, so treat the settings as minimal for now.

Does Cherished Worlds affect FPS or performance?

It is a menu mod, not a performance mod. It only changes the world select and server list screens, and the developer makes no performance claims for it. If you want higher frame rates, run a dedicated optimization mod alongside it.

Is Cherished Worlds still maintained?

Yes. The latest release landed in September 2026 and added a Turkish localization, and the project is actively maintained by TheIllusiveC4 under the Illusive Soulworks brand. Bugs and feature requests go to the project's issue tracker.

Cherished Worlds is the rare mod you install once and never think about again, right up until the day it saves a world you would have cried over. If you have never added a client mod before, our guide on how to install Minecraft mods covers the whole process, and two more small client-side mods worth a slot in your folder are Controlling for taming keybind conflicts and Auto HUD for hiding the HUD when you do not need it.