# The Necessary ## What does this modpack do ? This modpack adds 50+ mods (20+ for **1.12.2**) to **optimize Minecraft** and **improve the HUD, recipe viewing, tooltips, and more**, making Minecraft smoother, more convenient, and easier to manage. ## Features (for Major versions) Note : These features aren't for Snapshot, Pre-release or Release Candidate versions of Minecraft. If you want to see features of them, go to **Features (for Minor versions)** section. **Core features**

Optimization

**Render**: Sodium (Fabric + Neoforge), Embeddium (Forge) **Mob AI**: Lithium (Fabric + Neoforge), Radium (Forge) **Chunk Loading**: C2ME (Fabric + Neoforge), C2MEF (Forge) **Culling**: Entity Culling, More Culling **Reduce Memory Usage**: FerriteCore **Block Entity Rendering (Fabric)**: BBE **Light Optimization**: ScalableLux, Starlight **Worldgen Optimization**: FastNoise **Optimize immediate mode rendering**: ImmediatelyFast **Reduce resource usage whie game in background**: Dynamic FPS **Fast language switching**: Language Reload **Optimize Minecraft server**: ServerCore **Decrease Datapack-loading time** - 26.1+: quick pack **Optimize Structures Jigsaw and NBT pieces**: Structure Layout Optimizer **Fix memory leaks (older)**: Memory Leak Fix **Misc Optimizations and Bug fixes**: ModernFix/ModernFix-mVus, BadOptimizations, PacketFixer ![Forge Optimization](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/Gvp9bbxY/images/ab2c31d55bfda5aef5b9653d682bfd6ec52fb56c.png)

HUD improvement

**Hunger and Saturation viewing**: AppleSkin **View armor durability**: uku's Armor HUD ![Uku](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/1ae9b4bb6906fcde55ceee7be8a7e664dfe6247e_0.webp) **Effect timing**: Status Effect Bar (Fabric), Effect Timer Plus (Neoforge + Forge) ![Status Effect Bars](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/x02cBj9Y/images/b078783e15bacfd25185abbce01cea107e2106bd.png) **Show Hotbar, Hunger Bar, etc. while riding mobs**: Better Mount HUD (Fabric), Leave My Bar Alone (Neoforge + Forge)

Player appearance improvement

**OptiFine Cape (Fabric)**: Capes **3D Skin**: 3D Skin Layers

Tooltip improvement

**Shulker Box item preview**: Shulker Box Tooltip ![Shulker box tooltip](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/7ea418388ba5e9c533fcea16851c09cab4ea52f0_0.webp) **Item durability viewing**: Durability Tooltip

Inventory Sorting

* **Inventory Profiles Next**: Inventory sorting * **Crafting Tweaks**: Arrange items more easily while crafting * **Mouse Tweaks (Fabric + Neoforge)**: Arrange items with mouse clicks

Other features

**Zoom**: Zoomify (Fabric), Just Zoom (Neoforge), Zume (Forge) ![Zoomify](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/w7ThoJFB/images/58587830dc7f5af65dca92af567d0e7906c54fda.webp) **Dynamic Lights**: LambDynamicLights **Shader**: Iris Shaders (Fabric + Neoforge), Oculus (Forge) **Fullbright**: Gamma Utils (Fabric), Fullbright UB + Clear Lava, Water Resourcepacks (Neoforge + Forge) **LAN server (Fabric + Neoforge)**: e4mc **Recipe manager**: JEI ![JEI](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/u6dRKJwZ/images/156edbd1e04f86d64edc4f41a6d00e849bc7984b.png) **Better visibility when on fire**: Low on Fire (Resourcepack) **Sodium/Embeddium Support**: Translations for Sodium (Resourcepack), Sodium Extra (Fabric + Neoforge) / Embeddium Extra (Forge), Reese's Sodium Options (Fabric + Neoforge) **View items while on a boat**: Boat Item View **Mod management/config**: Mod Menu (Fabric), Forge Config Screens (Forge) **Download Resourcepacks in-game without using a web browser (Fabric + Forge)**: Resourcify ![RESOURCIFY](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/RLzHAoZe/images/d1a2bf740a322e78d8df960c9e4272707df3793a.png) **Quit to the main screen without waiting**: fastquit **Remove outdated resourcepacks/datapacks warning**: No Resource Pack Warnings **Disable Chat Reports**: No Chat Reports **No (Re)loading screen**: Remove Reloading Screen **Increase maximum length of chat history**: More Chat History **Move Deleted Worlds to Trash**: Delete Worlds To Trash **Play in Borderless Full Screen**: Cubes Without Borders **Statistics Screen Improvement**: Better Statistics Screen

## Features (for Minor versions) **Minor versions here are the Snapshot, Pre-release and Release Candidate of Minecraft, the number of mod supporting minor versioners is small, so there will be not too much features**. **Optimization** - **C2ME**: Chunk loading optimization - **Ksyxis**: Disable spawn chunk loading to save FPS **Resource pack** (skip the resource pack warings, most of them may run well) - **Fast Better Grass**: Grass Decoration - **Low on Fire**: Better view when on fire - **FullBright UB**: Full Bright Some versions will lack of mods in list above, and there will be some extra mods for some version, for full features of versions, go to the version of Modrinth to see mod lists. ## Bugs and Issues ### Report bugs and issues Please report issues here: https://github.com/break08/The-Necessary/issues Many versions may have bugs in one or more mods included in this modpack, and I do not have enough time to test every version thoroughly. Please report any issues so I can remove the problematic mod and replace it if possible. ### Solve the issues by yourself If there are bugs/issues and you can solve them yourself, choose some solutions: 1. Remove the mods causing the issue 2. Install its required dependencies mod (if required) Note: **Fabric loader will always open a window to report to you the issue when Minecraft crash (except when you install a mod like Crash Assistant), read them to know how to solve the problem.If you can't read crash reports from logs/mod loaders/console, copy them and send to ChatGPT or other AI, they may be able to help you** **Finally, open an issue in project site on GitHub.** ## Some Notices: ### Overall * **The mods listed above are not all the mods in this modpack; they are only the core mods** * **Some versions may lack some of the features above because they are too old, outdated, or too new to receive updates immediately** * **Some features above may exist in a version, but the mods providing them may be different from the ones listed here** * **The features above are for the latest or near-latest versions. Therefore, backported versions of the modpack may not include all of them** ### On Tlauncher * Tlauncher Capes conflicts with some mods in this pack: **Entity Culling, Capes, ...** ### Image Attribution **Some images used in this modpack description are screenshots taken from the original pages or repositories of mods included in this modpack. These images remain the property of their respective authors unless otherwise stated. They are used here only to illustrate features of the included mods and to help explain the contents of the modpack.**