Best Hardcore Vanilla+

Fabric 26.2 built for beautiful, fast and genuinely long-term solo Hardcore survival.

Current release: 1.5.2 — Beauty Immersion / Complementary Unbound

Highlights

• 83 carefully curated Fabric mods and libraries
• 11 resource packs, with SPBR 21 LabPBR 16x enabled
• 9 Iris shaders, led by Complementary Unbound r5.8.1
• Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, ModernFix and conservative culling optimizations
• Fresh Animations, immersive audio, polished HUD and restrained Vanilla+ quality of life
• Automatic world backups, Crash Assistant and Delete Worlds To Trash
• Strict singleplayer-only scope with no revival or multiplayer systems

True solo Hardcore

Hardcore death remains fully vanilla and final. The pack contains no revival system, keep-inventory, free totem, second chance or multiplayer rescue mechanic.

Backups protect long-running worlds against corruption, crashes and technical mistakes. Restoring one after a legitimate death deliberately breaks the Hardcore rule and is left to the player.

Natural 1440p visuals

SPBR keeps Minecraft's vanilla 16x art direction while adding LabPBR normal maps, material reflections and parallax. Complementary Unbound is configured for a sharp image with:

• High detail and volumetric clouds
• 224-block shader shadows
• POM quality 64 at a 32-block distance
• High material reflections at half resolution
• Clean TAA, sharpening 6 and light bloom
• Readable caves and enhanced Nether/End lighting
• No motion blur, depth of field, lens flare, chromatic aberration or vignette

Dry ground stays natural and matte. Puddles and wet reflections appear only while it rains; permanent full-coverage wet terrain is disabled.

Ores use colored visual emissives without artificial outlines. This does not alter block light levels, mob spawning, gameplay or world data. Pretty Realistic PBR remains installed but disabled as an optional alternative.

Recommended profile

• 2560×1440 fullscreen
• Render distance: 20 chunks
• Simulation distance: 10 chunks
• Entity distance: 100%
• FPS cap: 237 for a 240 Hz G-SYNC display
• Iris shadow limit: 14 chunks
• Java 25 with 8 GB RAM

On an RTX 5070 Ti and Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the profile targets roughly 90–160 FPS in normal scenes. Very large farms, dense entity areas and new-chunk generation can run lower. This is a target, not a guaranteed minimum.

Stable world protection

Bkups runs silently every 60 minutes and when leaving after a session of at least 30 minutes. Retention is capped at 10 GB and can be changed in its in-game settings.

Default Options applies the recommended profile only on a fresh installation. Later changes to language, controls, shaders, resource packs and graphics are preserved across modpack updates.

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Français

Best Hardcore Vanilla+ 1.5.2 propose une survie solo Hardcore longue durée, performante et fidèle à Minecraft. Le profil 1440p active Complementary Unbound et SPBR avec détails et nuages High, ombres 224 blocs, POM qualité 64, reflets PBR High et une image nette sans effets de flou inutiles.

Le terrain sec reste naturel et mat. Les flaques et reflets mouillés apparaissent uniquement lorsqu'il pleut : aucun sol mouillé permanent n'est activé.

Réglages par défaut : rendu 20 chunks, simulation 10, entités 100 %, limite 237 FPS, Java 25 et 8 Go de RAM. Sur RTX 5070 Ti + Ryzen 7 9800X3D, la cible est généralement de 90 à 160 FPS selon le monde et la scène.