Minecraft is a game that can be customized pretty heavily, thanks to add-ons and mods. ... Players on Java Edition will use mods that they can dig around for, mostly at no cost.

Java mods and Bedrock add-ons mainly differ in terms of how players download/install them and which platforms they are available on. Besides that, they are quite similar.

Minecraft just launched add-ons, which are mods, not to be confused with the previous add-ons that were also mods, and won't replace mods for Minecraft Java. News.