Go to your Google Drive storage in any browser.

Click the cog wheel in the top right corner of the screen to open up settings, then click settings in the drop-down menu!

Click the Manage Apps tab inside the settings pop-up window.

The Manage Apps tab will list out the apps that have been connected to your Google Drive. When you find an app you’d like to disconnect or remove its data, click the Options drop-down menu beside it.

While an app might not be connected anymore, some do show that their data is still being stored on your Google Drive. Choose to either disconnect or remove hidden app data from the menu and continue on to the next step!

Another pop-up will appear asking you to confirm if you’d like to delete the data. Hit delete to finish!

First, go to your home screen and open the Settings app.

Click “general” to get to general settings.

Now, scroll down toward the bottom of the screen. Then, click “reset.”

Finally, click “reset home screen layout.”

Lastly, click “reset home screen” again to confirm the rest.

That’s it. The home screen layout on your iPhone has been reset!

By legobmw99

Game Versions: 1.12, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16

One of the most sought out enchantments in Minecraft is Mending. This mod makes it a little more rewarding and usable for players who finally acquire the enchantment on an item. It allows for the Mending item to repair itself with experience the player already has.

By zabi94

Game Versions: 1.12, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17

If you’d like to expand potions and brewing, but don’t want to add a large magic mod, Extra Alchemy is a great alternative. While it does add a bunch of useful potions to the game, it also enables players to combine potion effects and durations together through crafting. There also are vials which make positions stackable and a potion bag to carry them around!

By safrodev

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

As the name implies, Fabric Enchantments adds a load of new enchantments to Minecraft. One of the most impressive ones is Auto Smelting, which allows the player to receive the smelted version of any block they break!

By ThatPreston

Game Version: 1.16

For those that want to live out their mermaid dreams in Minecraft, this mod makes it happen. By crafting a dyed necklace, the player will magically transform into a mermaid upon contact with water!

By wtoll1

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

As with any type of alchemy, the process is complicated and complex. This mod takes everything about alchemy and makes it work inside Minecraft. There is a lot to Art of Alchemy: Memoriam, but perhaps the most wonderful thing about it is that it was created in memoriam of SynthRose, the original mod creator who tragically passing away in 2020. Memoriam was a community project created together and in solidarity, with the goal to allow her memory to live on through a beloved mod.

By Stuin01

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

Have you ever looked at a block of crying obsidian and thought, “What’s the deal with that?” The Lacrimis mod gives you an answer! By allowing players to extract its magical power, they can create rune arrays that teleport blocks, defy death, and build invulnerable walls.

By gliscowo

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

The goal of Conjuring is to allow players to create their own custom mob spawners. They can customize the amount of mobs spawned, required player distance, and even the attributes of mobs like speed.

By Tacodude7729

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

One of the more useful, but rare, items in Minecraft are the Totems of Undying. Quite a pain to get, this mod allows players to customize and craft totems to make them more powerful and useful. Depending on what you prefer, you can gain extra health, jump boost, night vision, and more!

By the_will_bl

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

For the True Blood or Vampire Diaries fans out there, we’ve got a mod for you to try. Haema allows players to become vampires and unlock a bunch of new abilities. As they play along they’ll gain better night vision, a dash ability, higher max health, and much more!

By ffrannny

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

There’s something to be said about mods that include the community in development. Dark Enchanting is certainly a mod-in-development, but it does have useful enchantments in place already. It’s obviously a passion of the developer, as they’ve asked the players for help writing the lore for it. The goal of this mod is to add new and more powerful enchantments to Minecraft and allow players to get the ones they want without having to reroll.

By squeek502

Game Versions: 1.12, 1.14, 1.5, 1.16, 1.17

By default, hunger and saturation is hidden, but with AppleSkin that changes. The main features of this mod are the addition of food value information to tooltips and visualization of saturation, hunger, and exhaustion on the player HUD.

By thethonk

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

If you’d like to add more farming to the world but don’t want to include a multi-file mod (see below), then try Croptopia. This mod adds over 200 new food items, plus plantable crops and trees. Paired with the Patchouli mod, your server can also have a recipe book for their culinary adventures!

By AlexSa1000

Game Version: 1.16

Have you ever needed a resource but just didn’t want to have to go mining for it? That’s where Mystical Agriculture comes in. Now you can just grow resources with crops! This mod adds a bunch of resource crops, tools, armor, and fun blocks to add a unique mechanic to Minecraft. It even integrates with other mods like Applied Energistics 2, Industrial Revolution, Tech Reborn, and more!

By cool_mineman

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

As the name implies, this mod allows you to grow any Minecraft plant inside a 1x1x1 jar. While it might not appear to have practical use, you can use them to farm for resources. Plus, it makes for fantastic decoration in a build!

By FoundationGames

Game Versions: 1.15, 1.16

This is a mod that does more than you’d think based on the name. While, yes, you can create your own sandwiches (and make them as tall as you want), it also adds multiple new food mechanics to Minecraft. You can make cheese, use a toaster, extract salt from ocean water, and even make pickles! Sandwichable is a great mod to add to a multiplayer server or a singleplayer world!

By LordDeatHunter

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

While singleplayer worlds allow players to speed up crop growth via tick speed, that’s not possible in a multiplayer world. Croptosis adds four new fertilizers and fertilized variants of dirt, farmland, and sand, that help crops grow 2x the normal rate.

By NewHoryzon

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

If you’re a farmer who prefers the vanilla game experience, but also crave slight variety, then Farmer’s Delight is for you. This mod expands on Minecraft’s farming and food items with the addition of more meals, a way to improve soil, and even some gear to help with adventuring!

By Furgle

Game Versions: 1.12, 1.16, 1.17

One of my biggest pet peeve with hoes is that even if you upgrade them, they don’t really do much. Improved Hoes fixes that by making farming with hoes quicker and easier. Each type of hoe has a tiered range of blocks that it can till, harvest, and (for some) replant crops!

By ffrannny

Game Versions: 1.15, 1.16, 1.17

Who doesn’t love a good taco? Now you can make one inside Minecraft! With over ten variations of tacos to try and the crops to make them, TacoCraft is a great food addition to any game.

By cool_minerman

Game Versions: 1.16, 1.17

While this can’t be fully considered a farming mod, it fits the aesthetic enough to be on this list. It’s a simple-to-use mod that allows players to carve their own pumpkins into any design they can dream up!

Varnish is a transparent liquid that, when dry, acts as a hard protective coat for your painting. Made from tree resins, varnishes can also affect the colors of your painting, making them more vibrant.

How varnishes differ

If you were to walk into your local art supply store and head for the section where painting varnishes are kept, you’d run into several varnish options. While each type is different, the most important thing you have to know when choosing a varnish is this: Varnishes are categorized according to their finish, which is the amount of light reflected by the varnish once dry.

Varnish works well with oil and acrylic paints only. When applied to gouache or watercolor, varnish can absorbed by the paper or the paint, affecting the quality of the finished product.

How to choose varish

Gloss finishes reflect light and create a smooth glass-like finish which matches well with simpler paintings (in my personal opinion). Matte or satin finishes, on the other hand, won’t reflect light, making them a good option for busier paintings with a lot of texture and patterns.

Ultimately, varnish is a personal choice and depends on how you want the finish version to look. Don’t be afraid to play around on a practice canvas to see which finish you like best.

If you apply a varnish and find that you don’t like the finish, don’t worry! You can remove it, but you need to paint on what’s called an isolation coat before the varnish.

An isolation coat is an additional layer that protects the varnish from being absorbed by the paint, allowing it to be removed at a later date if that is your wish.

If you’re a hobby artist (like myself), you don’t have to worry about using an isolation coat. Instead, you can apply the varnish directly to the painting.

Interesting in investing in an isolation coat? Try the Golden Artist Isolation Coat.

How to use an isolation coat

• If you decide to use an isolation coat, apply it directly to the painting and wait for it to dry. It should take anywhere from 10–30 minutes.
• Once it’s dry, apply a thin layer of your varnish and wait for it to dry.

Boom. You have a protected painting that’s ready for varnish.

As a painter, amateur or otherwise, you’ll likely have a collection of brushes, but it’s important to keep your varnishing brush separate from your normal paintbrushes. When varnish mixes with wet paint left on a brush, the diluted mixture can smear across the canvas. Keeping a brush specifically for varnish is a great way to keep this from happening.

But what kind of brush works best?

Most brush manufacturers and brands sell brushes specifically for varnish, but any wide flat brush like the Royal Brush Golden Taklon Paint Brushes will work well.**

Acrylic paints are sneaky. Even dry, acrylic paints are a lot more pliable than oil paints, which means they have a softer exterior that makes it easier for dust and light debris to stick to the surface. Enter the protective coating capacity of varnish.

However, this softer surface can also make varnish removal tricky. If you’re even the slightest bit doubtful about your choice of varnish, you’re going to want to use one of those handy-dandy isolation coats I described in the last step. Otherwise, you’re ready to varnish as you normally would.

Remember: Always apply varnish in a well-ventilated room.

How to varnish an acrylic painting

• Pour your choice of varnish into a shallow bowl. I’m a huge fan of using small mason jars.
• Lay your painting, artwork up on a protective surface. Varnish likes to go everywhere varnish isn’t welcome, but an old sheet, some newspaper, or a spare towel will help protect your workspace.
• Dip your brush into the varnish.
• Sweep the varnish lightly across the painting. Work side-to-side, slightly overlapping with each stroke to ensure an even coat.
• Don’t re-varnish an area that you’ve already varnished. Dragging wet varnish through partially dry varnish can produce a cloudy finish.
• Apply an additional layer of varnish once the varnish is dry.
• Allow the varnish to dry completely.

First thing’s first: You have to let your painting completely dry before you apply varnish.

If you’ve tuned into my How to Clean Your Brushes After Oil Painting guide, you’ll know that oil paint takes a long time to dry. Even thin paint, which dries a lot faster than thick layers of paint, can take a few days to dry.

Don’t be afraid to let your painting dry for a past the paint feeling dry to the touch. Remember: When varnish mixes with wet paint, it can carry the pigment across the canvas, distorting the painting. So, always wait until your paint is completely dry.

From here, it’s very much the same as above.

Remember: Always apply varnish in a well-ventilated room.

How to varnish an oil painting

• Pour your choice of varnish into a shallow bowl. I’m a huge fan of using small mason jars.
• Lay your painting, artwork up on a protective surface. Varnish likes to go everywhere varnish isn’t welcome, but an old sheet, some newspaper, or a spare towel will help protect your workspace.
• Dip your brush into the varnish.
• Sweep the varnish lightly across the painting. Work side-to-side, slightly overlapping with each stroke to ensure an even coat.
• Don’t re-varnish an area that you’ve already varnished. Dragging wet varnish through partially dry varnish can produce a cloudy finish.
• Apply an additional layer of varnish once the varnish is dry.
• Allow the varnish to dry completely.

Enjoy your freshly preserved varnished painting!

Varnish is a transparent liquid that, when dry, acts as a hard protective coat for your painting. Made from tree resins, varnishes can also affect the colors of your painting, making them more vibrant.

How varnishes differ

If you were to walk into your local art supply store and head for the section where painting varnishes are kept, you’d run into several varnish options. While each type is different, the most important thing you have to know when choosing a varnish is this: Varnishes are categorized according to their finish, which is the amount of light reflected by the varnish once dry.

Varnish works well with oil and acrylic paints only. When applied to gouache or watercolor, varnish can absorbed by the paper or the paint, affecting the quality of the finished product.

How to choose varish

Gloss finishes reflect light and create a smooth glass-like finish which matches well with simpler paintings (in my personal opinion). Matte or satin finishes, on the other hand, won’t reflect light, making them a good option for busier paintings with a lot of texture and patterns.

Ultimately, varnish is a personal choice and depends on how you want the finish version to look. Don’t be afraid to play around on a practice canvas to see which finish you like best.

If you apply a varnish and find that you don’t like the finish, don’t worry! You can remove it, but you need to paint on what’s called an isolation coat before the varnish.

An isolation coat is an additional layer that protects the varnish from being absorbed by the paint, allowing it to be removed at a later date if that is your wish.

If you’re a hobby artist (like myself), you don’t have to worry about using an isolation coat. Instead, you can apply the varnish directly to the painting.

Interesting in investing in an isolation coat? Try the Golden Artist Isolation Coat.

How to use an isolation coat

• If you decide to use an isolation coat, apply it directly to the painting and wait for it to dry. It should take anywhere from 10–30 minutes.
• Once it’s dry, apply a thin layer of your varnish and wait for it to dry.

Boom. You have a protected painting that’s ready for varnish.

As a painter, amateur or otherwise, you’ll likely have a collection of brushes, but it’s important to keep your varnishing brush separate from your normal paintbrushes. When varnish mixes with wet paint left on a brush, the diluted mixture can smear across the canvas. Keeping a brush specifically for varnish is a great way to keep this from happening.

But what kind of brush works best?

Most brush manufacturers and brands sell brushes specifically for varnish, but any wide flat brush like the Royal Brush Golden Taklon Paint Brushes will work well.**

Acrylic paints are sneaky. Even dry, acrylic paints are a lot more pliable than oil paints, which means they have a softer exterior that makes it easier for dust and light debris to stick to the surface. Enter the protective coating capacity of varnish.

However, this softer surface can also make varnish removal tricky. If you’re even the slightest bit doubtful about your choice of varnish, you’re going to want to use one of those handy-dandy isolation coats I described in the last step. Otherwise, you’re ready to varnish as you normally would.

Remember: Always apply varnish in a well-ventilated room.

How to varnish an acrylic painting

• Pour your choice of varnish into a shallow bowl. I’m a huge fan of using small mason jars.
• Lay your painting, artwork up on a protective surface. Varnish likes to go everywhere varnish isn’t welcome, but an old sheet, some newspaper, or a spare towel will help protect your workspace.
• Dip your brush into the varnish.
• Sweep the varnish lightly across the painting. Work side-to-side, slightly overlapping with each stroke to ensure an even coat.
• Don’t re-varnish an area that you’ve already varnished. Dragging wet varnish through partially dry varnish can produce a cloudy finish.
• Apply an additional layer of varnish once the varnish is dry.
• Allow the varnish to dry completely.

First thing’s first: You have to let your painting completely dry before you apply varnish.

If you’ve tuned into my How to Clean Your Brushes After Oil Painting guide, you’ll know that oil paint takes a long time to dry. Even thin paint, which dries a lot faster than thick layers of paint, can take a few days to dry.

Don’t be afraid to let your painting dry for a past the paint feeling dry to the touch. Remember: When varnish mixes with wet paint, it can carry the pigment across the canvas, distorting the painting. So, always wait until your paint is completely dry.

From here, it’s very much the same as above.

Remember: Always apply varnish in a well-ventilated room.

How to varnish an oil painting

• Pour your choice of varnish into a shallow bowl. I’m a huge fan of using small mason jars.
• Lay your painting, artwork up on a protective surface. Varnish likes to go everywhere varnish isn’t welcome, but an old sheet, some newspaper, or a spare towel will help protect your workspace.
• Dip your brush into the varnish.
• Sweep the varnish lightly across the painting. Work side-to-side, slightly overlapping with each stroke to ensure an even coat.
• Don’t re-varnish an area that you’ve already varnished. Dragging wet varnish through partially dry varnish can produce a cloudy finish.
• Apply an additional layer of varnish once the varnish is dry.
• Allow the varnish to dry completely.

Enjoy your freshly preserved varnished painting!