🌹 Unreal Vanilla

Mojang hire this person! Unreal Vanilla looks like a demo, but you can play it. It features numerous visual and auditory treats plus several quality of life improvements. This modpack does not alter gameplay, altough it does make you drool. Perfect for playing on servers, Unreal Vanilla delivers a perfected base game expereince.

📦 Mod List

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🚀 Performance & Optimization (12 mods)

Mod	What it does
Sodium	Modern rendering engine that massively boosts FPS and reduces stuttering.
Lithium	Optimizes game logic (mob AI, physics, world ticking) with no gameplay changes.
FerriteCore	Slashes memory usage by deduplicating block state and model data.
ImmediatelyFast	Speeds up immediate-mode rendering for text, GUIs, and entities.
ModernFix	Broad collection of fixes for load times, memory, and general performance.
BadOptimizations	Micro-optimizations for often-overlooked systems like lighting and the sky.
Entity Culling	Skips rendering entities and block entities you can't actually see.
More Culling	Culls hidden block faces, leaves, and other geometry for extra FPS.
Enhanced Block Entities	Renders chests, signs, and bells as regular blocks for a big performance win.
Dynamic FPS	Lowers FPS when the game is unfocused or minimized.
Bobby	Caches chunks beyond the server's render distance so you can see further.
Distant Horizons	Adds Level-of-Detail terrain so distant landscapes render out to the horizon.

🌄 Rendering & Visuals (23 mods)

Mod	What it does
Iris Shaders	Shader pack support, fully compatible with Sodium.
Continuity	Connected textures via resource packs.
LambDynamicLights	Held torches, glowing items, and burning mobs emit real light.
Better Clouds	Visually appealing clouds that put vanilla's flat slabs to shame.
Better Snow Coverage	Snow layers fill in around fences, plants, and other blocks properly.
Particle Rain	Replaces flat rain and snow sheets with proper particles.
Cool Rain	Tones down rain visuals and audio when you're under cover.
Explosive Enhancement	Cinematic explosion particles, smoke, and shockwaves.
Satin Free Wakes	Boats and swimming players leave splashes and wakes on the water.
Make Bubbles Pop	Underwater bubbles pop at the surface with a satisfying effect.
FootprintParticle	Leaves footprints behind players and mobs on soft ground.
Elytra Contrails Mod	Streaks trailing from your wingtips while gliding.
Elytra Physics	Your elytra has cape physics as you walk.
Wavey Capes	Capes sway and ripple instead of hanging stiff.
3D Skin Layers	Renders the outer skin layer in 3D for hats, sleeves, and more.
3D Armor	Gives armor pieces more depth and detail in 3D.
[EMF] Entity Model Features	Custom entity models (OptiFine CEM support) for resource packs.
[ETF] Entity Texture Features	Random, emissive, and blinking entity textures for resource packs.
Tightfire	Fire hugs slabs and fences properly instead of floating.
Punchy!	First-person animations and visible hands holding items.
Leawind's Third Person	Over-the-shoulder third-person camera with smooth aiming.
BoatCam	The camera follows the boat's heading while you paddle.
Camera Overhaul	Makes movement feel more satisfying by tilting and rotating the camera in response to what you're doing — strafing and turning lean the view sideways, jumping and falling shift the pitch, explosions shake the screen, and standing still lets the camera sway gently. Everything is adjustable in-game; set any feature to 0.0 to disable it.

🔊 Audio & Voice (8 mods)

Mod	What it does
Sound Physics Remastered	Realistic reverb, echo, and sound occlusion based on your surroundings.
AmbientSounds	Rich ambient soundscapes for biomes, caves, and weather.
Presence Footsteps	Footstep sounds that match the block you're walking on and your speed.
ImmersiveThunder	More varied and realistic thunder rolls during storms.
Sounds	Adds sounds to actions that are silent in vanilla — item pickups, hotbar scrolling, menus, and more.
Logarithmic Volume Control	Volume sliders that actually feel linear to your ears.
Simple Voice Chat	Built-in proximity voice chat with groups, push-to-talk, and more.
Simple Voice Chat Group Player Names	Shows player names inside voice chat groups.

🖥️ HUD & Interface (26 mods)

Mod	What it does
Jade 🔍	Shows info about the block or entity you're looking at.
AppleSkin	Displays hunger, saturation, and food values in the HUD and tooltips.
BetterF3	Cleaner, color-coded, customizable F3 debug screen.
Xaero's Minimap	Rotating minimap with waypoints, entities, and cave mode.
Xaero's World Map	Full-screen world map that syncs with the minimap.
Health Indicators	Floating health bars above mobs and players.
Simple Armor Hud	Shows equipped armor and its durability on the HUD.
FireHud	Indicates when you're on fire and how long you'll keep burning.
Dynamic Crosshair	Crosshair adapts to context — hides, changes shape, or shows interaction hints.
Immersive Hotbar	Animated hotbar slots and tooltips when swapping, using, or picking up items.
Immersive UI	Smooth animations and transitions across vanilla menus.
Smooth Swapping	Items glide between slots instead of teleporting.
Smooth Scrolling	Smooth, eased scrolling in menus and lists.
Item Highlighter	Highlights newly picked-up items in your inventory.
Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]	Chat messages slide in smoothly.
Chat Heads	Shows player heads next to messages in chat.
Blur+	Blurs the world behind GUI screens.
Dark Loading Screen	Replaces the blinding white loading screen with a dark one.
OptiGUI	Custom container GUIs via resource packs (OptiFine format).
Cursors Extended	Minecraft-themed, animated mouse cursors.
Mod Menu	In-game mod list with config access.
Quicker Connect Button	Adds a one-click server connect button to the main menu.
Quit from Game Menu	Adds a Quit button to the pause menu.
Smooth Gui	GUIs fade up and the background blur eases in when you open a screen instead of snapping into place.
Hover Items	Items pop out with a clean animation when you hover over them in any container, with an optional bounce.
Shadow Drop	Adds subtle drop shadows beneath items in GUIs for extra depth — color, opacity, and position are configurable.

🎮 Gameplay & Quality of Life (12 mods)

Mod	What it does
Inventory Profiles Next	Inventory sorting, auto-refill, and one-click move-all.
Simple Autoswitch	Automatically switches to the best tool for the block.
Quick Elytra	Hotkey to swap between chestplate and elytra instantly, also swaps automatically when you try to fly.
Controlify (Controller support)	Full gamepad support with rumble, button glyphs, and menu navigation.
CatVision	Toggleable night vision — no operator permissions required.
I Know How To Play!	Removes the vanilla tutorial toasts for good.
Cubes Without Borders	Borderless fullscreen mode for smooth alt-tabbing.
Default Options	Ships sensible default settings and keybinds with the pack.
Packed Packs	Group resource/data packs into profiles with drag-and-drop and multi-select.
ViaFabricPlus	Join servers running older (or newer) Minecraft versions.
CraftPresence	Discord Rich Presence showing what you're doing in-game.
Blocks Previewer	Shows a ghost preview of how a block will be oriented before you place it — like Create's placement preview, but for every block. Great for builders and redstoners.

🌐 Social (2 mods)

Mod	What it does
Essential Mod	Friends list, direct messaging, cosmetics, and host-your-world multiplayer.
Essential Patcher	Gets rid of micro-transactions.

📚 Libraries & APIs (16 mods) — required dependencies, no user-facing features

Mod	Required by
Fabric API	Nearly everything — core Fabric hooks.
Fabric Language Kotlin	Kotlin-based mods (e.g. Inventory Profiles Next).
Architectury API	Multi-loader mods.
Cloth Config API	Config screens for many mods.
YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)	Config screens for Controlify and others.
MidnightLib	Config handling for Midnight-family mods.
Balm	Blay's mods (e.g. Default Options).
CreativeCore	AmbientSounds and other CreativeMD mods.
Iceberg	Grend's mods (Health Indicators family).
JamLib	Jam Core mods (e.g. Quicker Connect Button).
libIPN	Inventory Profiles Next.
MRU	Cassian's mods (Immersive Hotbar, Immersive UI).
Perspective API	MineBlock's mods.
ShatterLib | OctoLib	Shattered/Octo mods.
UniLib	CraftPresence.
Text Placeholder API	Text formatting and placeholders.

🎨 Resource Packs

🐾 Entities & Animation (5 packs)

Pack	What it does
Fresh Animations	Brings vanilla mobs to life with smooth, expressive idle, walking, and attack animations. Requires EMF/ETF.
Fresh Animations: Emissive	Add-on that gives Fresh Animations mobs glowing eyes and emissive details.
Fresh Animations: Extensions	Add-on covering more mobs and variants not included in the base pack.
Fresh Animations: Player Extension	Add-on that applies Fresh Animations-style movement to the player model.
Icon Fresh	Replaces the mob icons on Xaero's Minimap and World Map with Fresh Animations-styled portraits.

🧱 Blocks & Textures (3 packs)

Pack	What it does
SPBR	PBR textures for vanilla 16x blocks — adds real surface depth, parallax, and material properties for shaders.
Rainbow Diamond Ores & Ancient Debris	Adds a glowing, animated rainbow outline to diamond ore and ancient debris so they're impossible to miss.
Minimalist Enchantment Glint	Tones the enchantment glint down to a subtle shimmer that doesn't hide item textures.

🖥️ UI & Menus (5 packs)

Pack	What it does
CozyUI+	Clean, subtle high-definition redesign of every vanilla UI element, with support for many client mods.
Enchant Icons	Displays a small icon for each enchantment in item tooltips, so you can read gear at a glance.
Classic Menu Panorama	Restores the original pre-1.13 title screen panorama as a full 360° 4K background.
Old logo	Brings back the classic Minecraft title logo and removes the "Java Edition" subtitle.
Swzo's Font!	Replaces the default font with a soft, elegant typeface.

🌅 Shaders

Unreal Vanilla ships with two shader packs so you can pick between maximum fidelity and maximum frames. Both load through Iris — press the shader key in-game (default F7) or open Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs to switch.

✨ Shader Packs (2 packs)

Shader	Style	What it does
ApexShader	🎬 Cinematic	Advanced ray-traced lighting with dynamic weather, multi-layer volumetric clouds, and full post-processing (bloom, depth of field, and more). The "showcase" option — stunning, but demanding. Not as demanding as you'd think though!
Stracciatella Shaders	🍦 Vanilla+	Ultra-lightweight vanilla-style shader that adds colored lighting and a handful of tasteful quality-of-life visual tweaks while keeping the classic look. Highly configurable and built for the highest possible performance.

⚠️ Important Notes

• This modpack was developed with 8GB of allocated RAM, so keep that in mind
• A dedicated graphics card, even a very old one, is highly reccomended to play with shaders
• The defualt Minecraft options with this pack are genreally vanilla with music turned off. The defualt mod options have been handcrafted to provide a pleasing expereince.
• These Java flags may give you better performance -XX:+UseZGC -XX:+ZGenerational -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch