Ideal Helpful/Visual mods

A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs

Displays a map of the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which help you find the locations you've marked.

Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

Adds a full screen world map which shows you what you have explored in the world. Works great together with Xaero's Minimap.

Makes chat unreportable (where possible)

JEI - View Items and Recipes

The best way to play Minecraft. Enhanced Minecraft features in one simple mod. Fast, friendly, and for everyone!

View the contents of shulker boxes from your inventory

Lets you use capes from OptiFine, LabyMod and other cape mods

Allows resource packs to define custom skyboxes.

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on components, as well as offering built in auto-complete functionality.

Allows for render distances greater than the server's view-distance

Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!

Adds a configurable numerical ping display to the player list

Forge/Fabric/Quilt mod that adds the ability to walk around while in inventories

Bad Packets allows packet messaging between different modding platforms.

Gamma / Brightness / Night Vision mod, making it easy to see in the dark. Basically Fullbright for Fabric.

Take full control over your vanilla game

A Minecraft Map Editor... that runs in-game! With selections, schematics, copy and paste, brushes, and scripting. Use it in creative, or use it temporarily in survival.

A client-side schematic mod with extra features for creative mode work

Beautiful clouds in touch with the vanilla style

Removes useless information from the debug screen.

Various client-side tweaks, such as hand restock, hotbar swap/cycle, flexible/fast block placement etc.

A "mini F3" HUD mod, also with various overlays like light level, spawn chunks, slime chunks etc.

A small mod that shows the armor you're currently wearing above the food bar

Extra Features for Carpet Mod

A Carpet mod (fabric-carpet) extension, a collection of carpet mod style useful tools and interesting features

Overlay a timer on the Vanilla status effect HUD icons

Only load server resource packs when necessary

Client-side mod which completely removes darkness effect.