HippoCAD

HippoCAD – Build Everything

Why use Rhino when you have HippoCAD?

HippoCAD is THE modpack for detailed builds and architecture. Whether you’re designing a city, a single structure, a living room, or a fully automated factory, this pack combines the top builder mods that Forge has to offer, and it hands it all to you in one pack.

Interior Designing

ModernDeco, Paladin’s Furniture, and Handcrafted add thousands of furniture pieces, appliances, and decoration choices. You can build domestic spaces, offices, or factories in modern, medieval, industrial, or fantasy styles.

Civil Infrastructure & Roads

TrafficCraft, ModernMarkings, and Saro’s Road Blocks provide functional streets, precision road lines, traffic signals, and custom pavement curb systems. NX Roads and Skyscrapers adds modular asphalt palettes and foundational highway paths to plan, connect, and layout realistic transit networks across your entire city grid.

If you observe below, you can see how accurate these roads can get, as demonstrated by this T-junction:

Facade Detail

Chisels & Bits and FramedBlocks break the 1-block limitation to build detailed storefronts and custom shapes. Aesthetic Windows and Modern Windows add clean window grids, glazing, and glass arrays down to the pixel. XK’s Decoration and Macaw’s Mods add hundreds of non-cubic building blocks.

Cinematic Photography

You can take high-quality shots without external editing software. Choose from shader presets like BSL, Bliss, or Photon to change the lighting, while CompBuild Textures provides clean lines for renders. Stacking Essential Mod’s zoom with Zume or Chloride onto a single keybind creates a high-power zoom for framing distant details. Freecam detaches the camera from your player character to scout angles and compose shots anywhere. When flying with an elytra, Do a Barrel Roll gives you flight simulator controls—pitch, yaw, and roll—for smooth, banking aerial camera movements. The result is cinematic shots of your builds in motion, vehicles on roads, and rotating structures captured from any angle.

Core Tools

Axiom handles large-scale edits and terrain sculpting. WorldEdit and Buildpaste let you import existing structures, cut, and paste quickly so you can focus on building. Effortless Structure assits with quick shapes and line drafts.

Assets

Immersive Vehicles adds drivable vehicles for streets and parking. Valkyrien Skies and Clockwork provide physics and block rotation for machinery. Create and Steam ‘n’ Rails introduce moving mechanical parts, gears, and automated train systems. SecurityCraft adds functional locks and keypads to secure your builds. Nifty Blocks and Ched’s Realism add all the decorations in between.

REQUIREMENTS

• RAM: 8GB minimum allocated (10GB+ recommended)
• GPU: Mid-range or better recommended for shaders and high-res textures

TIPS

1. Select texture pack (CompBuild Textures recommended for modern urban design)
2. Choose a shader
3. Recommended Flat World or Custom Map
4. Configure keybinds to your preference
5. Play

Creator: occi | Support: Discord community available