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

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

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

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

Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

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

Alternative Options Menu for Sodium

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

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

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

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

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

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

Provides a way to get enchantment descriptions from enchanted books.

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

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

Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.

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

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

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

Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

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

Improves third person camera view.

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.