Editorially reviewed mods, tested for performance impact, version compatibility, and trustworthiness before listing.
The reference modern rendering engine for Minecraft Java: multi-draw chunk meshing, vastly reduced CPU overhead
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
Reduces Minecraft memory usage significantly.
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
General-purpose server-side optimization: game logic, AI, fluids, entity collisions
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft!
Lightweight client minimap with waypoints and entity radar.
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
Adds a full screen world map which shows you what you have explored in the world. Works great together with Xaero's Minimap.
A Sodium addon that adds features that shouldn't be in Sodium.
Tooltip and HUD overlay showing exact saturation, hunger restored, and food values: fixes the most opaque vanilla mechanic
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite performance mods!
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
View Items and Recipes
Mine the whole vein on mining a single ore/block. Make the tedious mining experience to something satisfying and fun!
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/Waila fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
The most-installed shader pack of the modern Minecraft era: Reimagined branch focused on stylized, performant lighting
Reduce resource usage while Minecraft is in the background, idle, or on battery.
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Adds dynamic lights to Minecraft as the most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
Sodium addon providing support for the Fabric Rendering API, based on Indigo
An open source library for other mods!
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
A mod that fixes random memory leaks for both the client and server
A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack
Veinminer Addon - Use a hotkey to veinmine with a dynamic crosshair & block highlighting
Enhance your Minecraft with one simple mod. Host worlds for free, chat with friends, and so much more!
Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Provides a way to get enchantment descriptions from enchanted books.
Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models
Unofficial Fork of "Iris", made to work with FML
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
A Pokémon mod for Fabric and NeoForge
BetterF3 is a mod that replaces Minecraft's original debug HUD with a highly customizable, more human-readable HUD.
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
See farther without turning your game into a slide show
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
A simple mod to fix various problems with packets, nbt and timeouts.
Reduce block entity FPS lag with almost no compromises, and improve their visuals
Allows you to locate biomes anywhere in the world.
The most Immersive and Customizable modern FPS experience in Minecraft - A complete Remaster of the TaC gun mod by the original team.
Vanilla+ additions: Jars, signposts, faucets, weather vanes spring launchers, sconces, planters, lights, decoration and automation
Allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.
Carry On allows you to pick up Tile Entities and Mobs and carry them around!
Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!
Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.
A gameplay-focused shader pack with a semi-realistic style
Teleport back to activated waystones. For Survival, Adventure or Servers.
Kinetic engineering with rotating shafts, gearboxes, and contraptions: the defining tech mod of the last 5 years
Ensures correct destinations when travelling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules. Say bye to pesky unintentional persistent mobs.
A complete redesign of Minecraft's Nether fortresses!
A Quark is a very small thing. This mod is a collection of small things...
Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background!
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Comes in 16 different colors!
A Structure Datapack adding dungeons, taverns and other structures to find while you explore the world.
Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses
Run your favourite Fabric mods on NeoForge
Improves third person camera view.
Config API for adding Sodium options with a better categories menu
Modern desktop graphics application framework and low-level 3D graphics engine
Multiloader port of LambDynLights that adds Sodium options integration
Veinminer Addon - Adds vineminer enchantment to enchanting tables. Only tools with the enchantment can veinmine
Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors
Highlights newly picked-up items. Simple and convenient.
Gives Embeddium/Sodium additional Performance and Quality features for a tasteful experience
Pre-generates chunks, quickly and efficiently
Forge/Fabric/Quilt mod that adds the ability to walk around while in inventories
Makes the game boot faster by deferring non-essential initialization
A Fabric mod designed to improve server performance at high playercounts.
Fixes Tooltips from runnning off the screen.
A modern fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and stunning visuals
Modifies how worlds are loaded to speed up loading times.
A bunch of rustic aircraft to travel, transport, and explore!
Adds accessory support to the elytra so you can fly and wear chest armor at the same time. Formerly known as Curious Elytra and Elytra Trinket.
Gamers can finally touch grass!? OptiFine's Fancy and Fast better grass implemented on Fabric and NeoForge!
Performance improvements for vanilla AI, with the ability to turn off certain AI behaviors
A well performing fantasy styled shaderpack with emphasis on scene variation and customization.
See your held items when in a moving boat!
[WIP] A gameplay shaderpack based on complementary reimagined that has coloured block light with sharp shadows
EMI addon that appends status effects in EMI and provides information about each status effect.
Adding depth to Create's rail network & steam system
MakeUp aims to provide the best quality / performance ratio, building a shader that can be adapted to anyone's resources.
Places a gravestone with your inventory items inside when you die
Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.
Allows you to locate structures anywhere in the world.
Building Tools and Aesthetic Technology
An efficient and non-locational redstone dust implementation
Explore six new rare cave biomes hidden under the surface of the Overworld...
Create Crafts & Additions extends Create and acts as a bridge between electricity and kinetic energy
Ship graveyard with terrible deep sea creatures!
Adds Spears, Glaives, Chakrams, Katanas, Greathammer/axes, Rapiers, and many more weapons!
Inspired by cpw's Iron Chests mod, adds a few different tiers of furnace.
Adds accessory support for the Totem of Undying so you can place it in a slot and don't have to be holding it. Formerly known as Curio of Undying and Trink
A lightweight, highly configurable Vein Mining enchantment for tools.
Enderman Overhaul adds over 20 new enderman variants, each with their own sounds, models, and animations!
A shader pack created to convey the style of the cancelled Super Duper Graphics Pack and other popular Minecraft titles.
A lot of unique and vanilla-faithful armor sets.
A crossplatform API for devs that makes transfer and storage of items, fluids and energy easier, as well as some other helpful things
Mowzie's Mobs adds a variety of fictional creatures to Minecraft, priding itself in unique AI, rich atmosphere, and fluid animations. Prove your might agai
Industrial decoration themed around the aesthetics of the Create mod.
Making automation for Farmers Delight more sensible
A stylized, horror themed Iris shaderpack with high customizability and performance.
Custom blocks and items to make your Fabric Seasons experience better.
[NOTE: This mod is now only intended for use with pre-existing Faster Random worlds]
An all-new enchanting table for choosing your enchantments at fair prices without the randomness.
Dragons and Mythical creatures in minecraft.
A Minecraft mod for building large cannons with the Create mod.
🪄 Data driven magic library
AE2: A popular automation and storage mod
Live long and prosper, Ad Astra!
Vehicle mod adding customizable and functional cars
An aesthetic, performant pastel-colored shaderpack with multiple color presets.
Create: New Age is an addon for the Create mod that adds integration with electricity.
QoL blocks that you wish existed in Create - Highly configurable, disable what you don't need
Offering more tools and methods to automate food processing of other mod in Create.
ComputerCraft fork adding programmable computers, turtles and more to Minecraft.
Shaderpack with a painterly aesthetic made for people who want to actually play the game. It's easy on your eyes and on your computer!
Automatic Enchanting, with Create
Adds plenty of blocks and items to defend and secure your base with.
A set of additional aircraft for Immersive Aircraft with Create support in mind.
Shaderpack with very high customization. If you like effects, this shaderpack is made for you!
Capturing the essence of old shaderpacks to create a stylized and modern Minecraft-look.
Extremely lightweight with shadows and reflections
Vanilla rendering, but with TAA
Atmospheric, highly customizable horror shaderpack, successor of Insanity Shader.
A high-quality realistic, yet also somewhat stylized shaderpack.
A Spooky, very moody and atmospheric Complementary Shaders Edit
A very lightweight shaderpack that is still fancy in its own way.
A simple Minecraft Java shader that attempts to maintain the vanilla aesthetic while adding optional shadows, colored lighting, and ray-tracing.
[DISCONTINUED] Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's oriented towards vanilla aesthetics.
Using clever lighting techniques and powerful customization to create clean, immersive, and enjoyable visuals.
A fast and high-quality shaderpack with realistic visuals and PBR atmospherics.
An attempt at recreating the new 'Vibrant Visuals' for Iris.
A shaderpack that gives Minecraft a modern visual overhaul while staying faithful to its original look.
A shader aimed at maximum speed while maintaining good visuals. Scalable from low to high end computers.
Lux is a high fidelity Minecraft: Java Edition shader pack based on Capt Tatsu's BSL Shaders.
A shader that improves minecraft's style instead of replacing it
Clean, high performance shaders for modern hardware
Server-side toolkit for technical players: fake players, tick control, fillBiome, hundreds of optional vanilla tweaks
Tech-tree magic mod where every system is built from flowers and mana: no GUIs, no power bars
100+ new biomes and dramatic landscapes built entirely on vanilla worldgen: no Mojang code patched
Shader support for Fabric, built for Sodium.
Digital storage and autocrafting for tech modpacks.
Multithreaded chunk and lighting engine for Fabric.
![[ETF] Entity Texture Features](https://syntaxmine.com/media/uploads/26a63668-574c-4ed3-b5f7-5512733766d1.webp)
![[EMF] Entity Model Features](https://syntaxmine.com/media/uploads/b8ce4171-5106-45fa-9505-9f032c258c82.webp)
![[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero](https://syntaxmine.com/media/uploads/84135406-dc84-4985-9d3d-86b2fae200f3.webp)
