Essential Mods

The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!

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

Using async path-tracing to hide Block-/Entities that are not visible

Memory usage optimizations

Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.

No-compromises game logic optimization mod. Well suited for clients and servers of all kinds. Now available for Fabric and NeoForge!

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

A Sodium addon that adds features that shouldn't be in Sodium.

All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite performance mods!

Sodium addon providing support for the Fabric Rendering API, based on Indigo

Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric

Alternative Options Menu for Sodium

Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.

Reduce resource usage while Minecraft is in the background, idle, or on battery.

A mod that fixes random memory leaks for both the client and server

A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance

Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/Waila fork for Minecraft 1.16+)

Reduce block entity FPS lag with almost no compromises, and improve their visuals

Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.

Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Provides a way to get enchantment descriptions from enchanted books.

Clean and Customizable. Alternative to Just Enough Items/JEI.

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.

Improves third person camera view.

Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules. Say bye to pesky unintentional persistent mobs.

No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.

Fixes Tooltips from runnning off the screen.

Quick leaf decay from cutting down trees. Built for fast performance and mod compat!

Provides additional tooltip info for items

Completely removes recipe book from the game, optimizing player data.

Adds tags and configuration options for defining how dropped items should combine.

A MoreCulling extension mod with smaller changes I don't want to put into MoreCulling. MoreCulling API example mod

A mod made to merge dropped items beyond the vanilla stack limit while considering mod compatibility.