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Thinkseal's recommended vanilla like mods

92 projects
Fabric API
Lightweight and modular API providing common hooks and intercompatibility measures utilized by mods using the Fabric toolchain.
238.84M
35.3K
5 days ago
Client or server
Library
Fabric
Sodium
A high-performance rendering engine replacement for Minecraft, which greatly improves frame rates and reduces micro-stutter.
212.51M
40.1K
2 weeks ago
Client
Optimization
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
165.6M
28.8K
3 weeks ago
Client
Decoration
Optimization
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
Cloth Config API
Configuration Library for Minecraft Mods
158.31M
16.4K
2 months ago
Client or server
Library
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Entity Culling
Using async path-tracing to hide Block-/Entities that are not visible
155.76M
17K
2 months ago
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Babric
+1
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
142.72M
15.9K
5 months ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
135.87M
26.6K
2 weeks ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Legacy Fabric
Quilt
Lithium
No-compromises game logic optimization mod, useful for both single-player games and multi-player servers.
120.91M
23.2K
Last month
Client or server
Optimization
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
116.59M
11.1K
Last week
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
95.43M
10.3K
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Sodium Extra
A Sodium addon that adds features that shouldn't be in Sodium.
90.99M
13.4K
Last month
Client
Cursed
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
+1
[EMF] Entity Model Features
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
90.45M
9,820
2 months ago
Client
Mobs
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+2
AppleSkin
Food/hunger-related HUD improvements
84.25M
17.4K
2 months ago
Client or server
Food
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
81.5M
8,956
2 months ago
Client
Adventure
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
76.31M
8,882
Last month
Client
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
ModernFix
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite performance mods!
73.96M
6,985
2 days ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
69.18M
16.1K
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/Waila fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
64.21M
8,737
Last week
Client or server
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
+1
Zoomify (Zoom)
A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
62.33M
10.4K
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
More Culling
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
61.72M
6,022
3 weeks ago
Client
Library
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
+1
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
54.75M
8,677
2 months ago
Client
Storage
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
54.55M
3,348
5 days ago
Client or server
Social
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+2
LambDynamicLights - Dynamic Lights
Adds dynamic lights to Minecraft as the most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
53.71M
14.1K
Last week
Client
Adventure
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
+1
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
50.11M
9,350
2 months ago
Client
Adventure
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Chat Heads
See who you're chatting with!
46.21M
6,666
Last week
Client
Decoration
Social
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
39.58M
3,259
2 months ago
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Krypton
A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack
39.51M
5,674
Last month
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Inventory Profiles Next
Take control over your inventory. Sort. Move matching Items. Throw all. Locked slots. Gear sets! And much more.
37.12M
7,849
2 weeks ago
Client
Storage
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Presence Footsteps
..An Overly complicated Sound Mod...
36.98M
6,570
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
LiteLoader
Quilt
Memory Leak Fix
A mod that fixes random memory leaks for both the client and server
36.42M
5,790
3 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
Quilt
AmbientSounds
#listentonature
36.37M
6,748
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
36.35M
2,409
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
35.92M
5,423
2 months ago
Client or server
Storage
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Shulker Box Tooltip
View the contents of shulker boxes from your inventory
35.06M
10K
2 months ago
Client
Storage
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
34.6M
7,576
3 days ago
Server
Optimization
Fabric
Debugify
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
33.82M
3,490
2 months ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
Quilt
Distant Horizons
Massively increase render distance without harming performance.
32.53M
13.9K
2 months ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
BetterF3
BetterF3 is a mod that replaces Minecraft's original debug HUD with a highly customizable, more human-readable HUD.
32.33M
11.4K
Last month
Client
Decoration
Game Mechanics
Utility
Fabric
Forge
+2
Model Gap Fix
Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models
31.28M
3,939
10 months ago
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Cherished Worlds
Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.
30.13M
2,456
Last month
Client
Management
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Visuality
Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
27.7M
6,144
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Quilt
More Chat History
Increases the maximum length of chat history.
26.04M
1,977
5 months ago
Client
Social
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Falling Leaves
Adds a neat little particle effect to leaf blocks
25.57M
5,797
3 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Euphoria Patches
Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.
25.48M
2,664
3 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
+1
Remove Reloading Screen
Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!
24.4M
2,431
3 weeks ago
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+2
Enhanced Block Entities
Reduce block entity FPS lag with almost no compromises, and improve their visuals
24.01M
6,175
2 years ago
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
CIT Resewn
Re-implements MCPatcher's CIT (custom item textures from optifine resource packs)
23.68M
3,942
2 years ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Noisium
Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.
23.61M
3,341
Last year
Server
Optimization
World Generation
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Capes
Lets you use capes from OptiFine, LabyMod and other cape mods
23.01M
2,304
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
e4mc
Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
22.12M
3,843
Last month
Singleplayer
Social
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Controlify (Controller support)
Adds the best controller support to Minecraft Java edition!
21.81M
1,889
2 weeks ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
Fast IP Ping
Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses
21.71M
1,352
4 months ago
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks (SSPB)
Reintroduces vanilla-like smooth lighting to non-full blocks (e.g. dirt paths and how they have dark shading when directly next to a full block) when using Sodium.
21.27M
1,233
3 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
FastQuit
Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background!
20.99M
1,643
3 weeks ago
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
20.72M
2,102
2 months ago
Client or server
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
Better Third Person
Improves third person camera view.
20.19M
4,001
Last year
Client
Game Mechanics
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Animatica
A mod implementing the OptiFine/MCPatcher animated texture format
20.03M
2,003
Last year
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Bobby
Allows for render distances greater than the server's view-distance
19.94M
5,690
Last month
Client
Fabric
ReplayMod
A Minecraft Mod to record, relive and share your experience.
17.88M
4,386
Last month
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
Sounds
It's what it says on the tin. A complete upgrade to Minecraft's SFX with over 170 new sound effects for UIs, items, blocks and more.
16.66M
3,973
2 months ago
Client
Game Mechanics
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Very Many Players (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve server performance at high playercounts.
15.55M
2,040
2 months ago
Server
Optimization
Fabric
Starlight (Fabric)
Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors
15.45M
4,539
3 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
Fabric
ToolTipFix
Fixes Tooltips from runnning off the screen.
15.3M
1,304
3 years ago
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Eating Animation
A mod that adds sprite animations for edible and drinkable items.
14.62M
5,075
2 years ago
Client
Food
Fabric
LazyDFU
Makes the game boot faster by deferring non-essential initialization
14.25M
4,211
4 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
Fabric
Fastload
Modifies how worlds are loaded to speed up loading times.
13.66M
1,659
3 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
World Generation
Fabric
Forge
Quilt
Nuit
Allows resource packs to define custom skyboxes. Formerly FabricSkyboxes
13.47M
1,632
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
Make Bubbles Pop
Client-side mod that makes bubble particles pop and lets them rise realistically to the water surface.
12.65M
2,584
2 months ago
Client
Adventure
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Do a Barrel Roll
Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.
10.59M
4,041
2 months ago
Client
Equipment
Transportation
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Blur+
Spices up the boring vanilla blur effect – featuring animations, colors and lots of customizability!
10.27M
3,516
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
ThreadTweak
Improve and tweak Minecraft thread scheduling. Fork of Smooth Boot for ≥1.20
10.14M
1,029
6 months ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Carpet
Take full control over your vanilla game
10.12M
2,613
2 months ago
Server
Game Mechanics
Utility
Fabric
Enhanced Attack Indicator
Uses the attack indicator for more than just melee attacks
7.73M
832
11 months ago
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
Drip Sounds
Adds sounds for drip particles landing & settings for block particles
7.19M
1,904
9 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
ViaFabricPlus
Minecraft Fabric mod which allows you to join EVERY Minecraft server version (Classic, Alpha, Beta, Release, April Fools, Bedrock)
7.16M
1,110
2 days ago
Client
Cursed
Library
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Smooth Swapping
Moves items smoothly in inventories
7.03M
2,706
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
Nvidium
Fast nvidia only rendering engine for sodium
6.98M
5,526
Last month
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Quilt
Nyf's Spiders
Modifes spiders to be more realistic
6.95M
2,205
3 months ago
Client and server
Mobs
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
+2
Status Effect Bars
Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.
6.86M
3,487
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Wakes
Adds splashes and wakes while traveling on water
6.35M
3,815
2 weeks ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Full Brightness Toggle
🔆 Press G to toggle the brightness/gamma in-game to maximum and get fullbright night vision.
6.32M
1,105
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
Explosive Enhancement
Makes the explosion animation look cooler.
6.21M
3,348
2 months ago
Client
Adventure
Decoration
Fabric
+1
Held Item Info
Shows information (like enchantments) about the held item under its name.
5.65M
1,672
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Equipment
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Detail Armor Bar
More detail about armor in Armor bar!
3.95M
1,480
2 years ago
Client
Equipment
Utility
Fabric
Forge
Quilt
MacOS Input Fixes
This mod fixes many Minecraft macOS input bugs. It makes scrolling with shift work properly on macOS, left click + control = left click (instead of right click) and more fixes!
3.67M
182
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
No Telemetry
Disable the telemetry introduced in 21w38a
3.47M
1,083
7 months ago
Client
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
Effective
Fabric client-side mod designed to improve Minecraft's ambience through particles, visual effects and sounds
3.14M
3,405
2 years ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Quilt
ClearDespawn
Make items blink when they're about to despawn
2.94M
969
3 years ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Smooth Boot (Fabric)
Improve Minecraft CPU scheduling
2.59M
1,196
3 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Snapper
Screenshots, made simple
67.4K
127
Last month
Client
Management
Social
Utility
Fabric
+2
MetalRender
Optimisation mod for Apple Silicon hardware.
4,715
58
10 months ago
Client
Optimization
Fabric
+2

Description

A list of vanilla like mods I recommend although some of these may be considered cheats, depending on what servers you play on. This also may not include all dependencies

Curated by

thinkseal
thinkseal

Details

Created 2 years ago Updated 10 months ago