Not Enough Crashes: The Mod That Stops Minecraft Crashing to Desktop

Not Enough Crashes: The Mod That Stops Minecraft Crashing to Desktop

Not Enough Crashes is a Minecraft mod that changes what happens when the game hits a fatal error. Instead of simply closing the client, it intercepts the crash, shows an informative screen listing the mods involved, and sends the player back to the main menu. That means no more relaunching the launcher after every single crash. 

Crash Behavior

When a crash happens during gameplay, the mod intercepts it and shows its own screen instead of letting the client close. This screen displays:

• a list of the mods that appear in the error's call stack — each one is a clickable link to its issue tracker;

• the full error report with syntax highlighting;

• a button to upload the report to a service that displays the log in a clean, structured format.

After reviewing the screen, the player clicks the return button and lands back on the main menu without restarting anything. The session is preserved and the launcher stays open.

The Not Enough Crashes crash screen 

Identifying the Responsible Mod

Not Enough Crashes analyzes the call stack and works out which mods applied mixins to the classes that show up in the trace. This narrows down the suspects: instead of a full log with dozens of lines, the player gets a specific shortlist of candidates for the cause of the crash.

For crashes related to structure and biome generation, the mod adds extra information to the report, which makes it easier to find the mod that broke chunk generation.

Configuration

The configuration file is located at .minecraft/config. It can be edited.

Conclusion

Not Enough Crashes turns a hard client shutdown into a managed crash screen with useful information and a way back into the game. For large modpacks where crashes happen regularly, it saves time on restarts and makes it much easier to pin down the problem mod. For a single-player vanilla game with no mods, there's little need for Not Enough Crashes; it's best suited to builds with 30+ mods, where crashes are a normal part of development or active testing.