Mods that improve game performance

• Cull Less Leaves - Adds leaf culling
• Dynamic FPS - Adds the ability to reduce Minecraft's FPS when tabbed out
• Enhanced Block Entities - Improves block entity rendering
• Entity Culling - Adds entity culling
• Lazy DFU - Disables DFU, which can greatly impact performance, unless necessary
• Lithium - Improves backend computations and processes to vastly improve game performance
• ModernFix - Generally improves game performance, reduces launch time, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs
• Sodium - Vastly improves rendering performance and other graphical issues
• Starlight - Improves the lighting engine to improve performance and reduce lighting errors
• Yeetus Experimentus - Disables the experimental settings popup when creating or loading worlds

Mods that make the game just a little easier to play

• AppleSkin - Shows food saturation & hunger
• bad packets - Allows syncing of information between mods
• Better F3 - Makes the F3 menu easier to read
• Controlling - Adds a search field to game settings
• Inventory Profiles Next - Adds the ability to sort and manage inventories more easily
• Jade - Adds a HUD that provides information about what the player is looking at
• Just Enough Items (JEI) - Adds a searchable block database to the inventory screen that shows and populates recipes
  • Just Enough Breeding (JEBr) - Adds a JEI category that shows breeding information for mobs
  • Just Enough Professions (JEP) - Adds a JEI category that shows villager profession workstations
  • Just Enough Resources (JER) - Adds a JEI category that shows in-game sources for items such as dungeon chests, mob sources, villager trades, or world gen information
• MiniHUD - Adds toggleable HUD info lines that give the player easy access to information they would otherwise have to dig for such as player coordinates, block coordinates, or block states
• Mod Menu - Adds a button in the escape screen to open a searchable menu listing all of the installed mods and the ability to access their configurations easily from the menu
• Player Health Indicators - Adds hearts above other players that show their current health
• Reese's Sodium Options - Replaces Sodium's options screen with an improved UX
• Searchables - Allows other mods to implement search bars and categories
• Shulker Box Tooltips - Adds a tooltip to Shulker boxes and other tile entities to show their contents in inventories
• Xaero's Minimap - Adds a minimap and waypoints
  • Xaero's World Map - Saves minimap information into a larger, scrollable map of all areas the player has explored
  • XaeroPlus - Adds extra features and increases the performance of Xaero's minimap and world map

These mods add pretty significant changes to the base game while still maintaining the vanilla feel. They are used by many players on any Yeastdonkey server and will allow you to fully interact with other players by utilizing shared schematics, maps, and more

• Item Scroller - Adds many utilities for moving items, mass crafting, and mass trading
• Litematica - Adds the ability to make and use schematics
  • Syncmatica - Allows players to sync schematics with each other
• ReplayMod - Adds the ability to record gameplay by recording the game states, which allows players to move through the replay world and produces lightweight files
• Servux - Allows clients to receive extra information needed by certain mods
• Simple Voice Chat - Adds an in-game voice chat (doesn't have to be used)
• Tweakaroo - Adds a wide variety of tweaks to the game
• WorldEdit - Allows players to edit their single-player worlds with tools such as copy & pasting, shape generation, and brushes
• Zoomify - Adds a zoom button

Mods that improve the graphics of the game

• Iris Shaders - Adds support for shaders
  • Complementary Shaders - Reimagined - Basic shader pack
• LambDynamicLights - Adds dynamic lighting
• Sodium Extra - Adds most of OptiFine's eye-candy options to sodium
• Yeastdonkey 5.0 - A resource pack from VanillaTweaks that makes the game look and sound better while retaining the vanilla feel. Also adds some information to blocks such as Redstone signal strength, Redstone component direction, and more