Thinkseal's recommended vanilla like mods

Lightweight and modular API providing common hooks and intercompatibility measures utilized by mods using the Fabric toolchain.

The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!

Configuration Library for Minecraft Mods

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

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

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

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

Alternative Options Menu for Sodium

Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

Bringing first-person animations to the third-person

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

A Fabric mod that allows for efficient connected textures

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

Makes chat unreportable (where possible)

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

A zoom mod with infinite customizability.

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

Adds dynamic lights to Minecraft as the most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod for Fabric.

A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.

Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models

A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack

See who you're chatting with!

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

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

Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker

..An Overly complicated Sound Mod...

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

BetterF3 is a mod that replaces Minecraft's original debug HUD with a highly customizable, more human-readable HUD.

Adds a neat little particle effect to leaf blocks

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

View the contents of shulker boxes from your inventory

Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.

Re-implements MCPatcher's CIT (custom item textures from optifine resource packs)

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Take control over you inventory. Sort. Move matching Items. Throw all. Locked slots. Gear sets! And much more.

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Lets you use capes from OptiFine, LabyMod and other cape mods

Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Makes the game boot faster by deferring non-essential initialization

Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.

Increases the maximum length of chat history.

See farther without turning your game into a slide show

Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.

Allows resource packs to define custom skyboxes.

Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering

Allows for render distances greater than the server's view-distance

A mod implementing the OptiFine/MCPatcher animated texture format

Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background!

Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!

A mod that adds sprite animations for edible and drinkable items.

Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Improves third person camera view.

Adds the best controller support to Minecraft Java edition!

Modifies how worlds are loaded to speed up loading times.

A Fabric mod designed to improve server performance at high playercounts.

spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.

Fast nvidia only rendering engine for sodium

Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses

Client-side mod that makes bubble particles pop and lets them rise realistically to the water surface.

A Minecraft Mod to record, relive and share your experience.

Spices up the boring vanilla blur effect – featuring animations, colors and lots of customizability!

Improve and tweak Minecraft thread scheduling. Fork of Smooth Boot for ≥1.20

Fixes Tooltips from runnning off the screen.

Reintroduces vanilla-like smooth lighting to non-full blocks (e.g. dirt paths and how they have dark shading when directly next to a full block) when using Sodium.

Adds sounds for drip particles landing & settings for block particles

Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.

Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactions to UI events. Easily tweak or expand the sounds with resource packs and data generation for a fully personalized audio experience.

Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.

Uses the attack indicator for more than just melee attacks

Modifes spiders to be more realistic

Adds splashes and wakes while traveling on water

Make items blink when they're about to despawn

Moves items smoothly in inventories

This mod fixes many Minecraft macOS input bugs. It makes scrolling with shift work properly on macOS, left click + control = left click (instead of right click) and more fixes!

Take full control over your vanilla game

More detail about armor in Armor bar!

Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.

Improve Minecraft CPU scheduling

Makes the explosion animation look cooler.

Fabric mod to connect to EVERY Minecraft server version (Release, Beta, Alpha, Classic, Snapshots, Bedrock) with QoL fixes to the gameplay

🔆 Press G to toggle the brightness/gamma in-game to maximum and get fullbright night vision.

Shows information (like enchantments) about the held item under its name.

Disable the telemetry introduced in 21w38a

Fabric client-side mod designed to improve Minecraft's ambience through particles, visual effects and sounds

Screenshots, made simple