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Thinkseal's recommended vanilla like mods

92 mods
Fabric API
Lightweight and modular API providing common hooks and intercompatibility measures utilized by mods using the Fabric toolchain.
129.88M
27.5k
Yesterday
Client or server
Library
Fabric
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
119.46M
32.9k
2 weeks ago
Client
Optimization
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
Cloth Config API
Configuration Library for Minecraft Mods
95.36M
13.7k
2 months ago
Client or server
Library
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
91.51M
23.8k
2 weeks ago
Client
Decoration
Optimization
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
85.31M
12.8k
2 weeks ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Entity Culling
Using async path-tracing to hide Block-/Entities that are not visible
84.96M
13.8k
Last month
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Babric
+1
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
78.64M
22.2k
3 weeks ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Lithium
No-compromises game logic optimization mod. Well suited for clients and servers of all kinds. Now available for Fabric and NeoForge!
72.19M
19.7k
5 days ago
Client or server
Optimization
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
70.66M
8,782
2 weeks ago
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
57.88M
8,599
Last month
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
[EMF] Entity Model Features
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
54.66M
8,151
2 weeks ago
Client
Mobs
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Sodium Extra
A Sodium addon that adds features that shouldn't be in Sodium.
54.55M
11.3k
Last month
Client
Cursed
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
+1
AppleSkin
Food/hunger-related HUD improvements
52.72M
13.7k
3 weeks ago
Client or server
Food
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
49.13M
7,692
Last week
Client
Adventure
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
ModernFix
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite performance mods!
48.94M
5,731
3 weeks ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
47.13M
7,860
2 weeks ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
41.75M
13.3k
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/Waila fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
41.01M
6,664
2 weeks ago
Client or server
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
More Culling
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
37.22M
4,925
2 weeks ago
Client
Library
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
+1
Zoomify
A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
36.80M
8,286
4 days ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
36.49M
10.2k
Last week
Client or server
Adventure
Social
Utility
Fabric
Forge
+10
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
35.52M
2,996
2 months ago
Client or server
Social
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
32.91M
6,766
2 months ago
Client
Storage
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
32.48M
7,798
2 months ago
Client
Adventure
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
LambDynamicLights - Dynamic Lights
Adds dynamic lights to Minecraft as the most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
30.68M
11.6k
3 days ago
Client
Adventure
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
+1
Chat Heads
See who you're chatting with!
29.23M
5,521
4 days ago
Client
Decoration
Social
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Memory Leak Fix
A mod that fixes random memory leaks for both the client and server
28.68M
5,439
2 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
Quilt
Krypton
A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack
24.82M
4,953
4 months ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Model Gap Fix
Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models
23.99M
3,708
4 months ago
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Presence Footsteps
..An Overly complicated Sound Mod...
22.80M
5,750
3 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
LiteLoader
Quilt
Inventory Profiles Next
Take control over your inventory. Sort. Move matching Items. Throw all. Locked slots. Gear sets! And much more.
22.41M
6,578
Last week
Client
Storage
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
21.72M
4,285
2 months ago
Client or server
Storage
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
21.70M
1,927
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
AmbientSounds
#listentonature
21.04M
5,597
2 weeks ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
20.93M
2,452
2 months ago
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
BetterF3
BetterF3 is a mod that replaces Minecraft's original debug HUD with a highly customizable, more human-readable HUD.
20.90M
10.1k
Last month
Client
Decoration
Game Mechanics
Utility
Fabric
Forge
+2
Shulker Box Tooltip
View the contents of shulker boxes from your inventory
20.85M
8,009
2 weeks ago
Client
Storage
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Debugify
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
20.58M
3,115
Last month
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
Quilt
Cherished Worlds
Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.
20.41M
2,033
6 days ago
Client
Management
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
19.55M
6,445
1 hour ago
Server
Optimization
Fabric
Visuality
Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
18.89M
5,406
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Quilt
Distant Horizons
See farther without turning your game into a slide show
18.78M
12.0k
2 months ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Noisium
Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.
18.52M
3,328
8 months ago
Server
Optimization
World Generation
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Falling Leaves
Adds a neat little particle effect to leaf blocks
18.45M
5,236
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Enhanced Block Entities
Reduce block entity FPS lag with almost no compromises, and improve their visuals
18.42M
5,900
Last year
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
CIT Resewn
Re-implements MCPatcher's CIT (custom item textures from optifine resource packs)
16.78M
3,849
Last year
Client
Utility
Fabric
Capes
Lets you use capes from OptiFine, LabyMod and other cape mods
16.74M
2,063
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
More Chat History
Increases the maximum length of chat history.
15.93M
1,724
2 years ago
Client
Social
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Remove Reloading Screen
Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!
14.48M
2,075
4 days ago
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
Animatica
A mod implementing the OptiFine/MCPatcher animated texture format
14.28M
1,911
8 months ago
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Bobby
Allows for render distances greater than the server's view-distance
13.54M
5,069
2 months ago
Client
Fabric
Euphoria Patches
Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.
13.49M
2,068
Yesterday
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
FastQuit
Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background!
13.46M
1,413
3 weeks ago
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Better Third Person
Improves third person camera view.
12.98M
3,499
10 months ago
Client
Game Mechanics
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Fast IP Ping
Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses
12.92M
1,004
2 months ago
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Starlight (Fabric)
Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors
12.67M
4,498
2 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
Fabric
e4mc
Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
12.41M
3,148
Last week
Client and server
Social
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
+1
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
12.21M
1,784
2 months ago
Client or server
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
Controlify (Controller support)
Adds the best controller support to Minecraft Java edition!
12.07M
1,440
Last week
Client
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
LazyDFU
Makes the game boot faster by deferring non-essential initialization
11.57M
4,161
4 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
Fabric
Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks
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.
11.53M
1,063
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
ReplayMod
A Minecraft Mod to record, relive and share your experience.
11.43M
3,745
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
Eating Animation
A mod that adds sprite animations for edible and drinkable items.
11.31M
4,701
Last year
Client
Food
Fabric
Nuit (formerly FabricSkyboxes)
Allows resource packs to define custom skyboxes.
10.46M
1,544
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
Fastload
Modifies how worlds are loaded to speed up loading times.
10.34M
1,612
2 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
World Generation
Fabric
Forge
Quilt
Very Many Players (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve server performance at high playercounts.
10.29M
1,803
2 weeks ago
Server
Optimization
Fabric
ToolTipFix
Fixes Tooltips from runnning off the screen.
9.72M
1,243
3 years ago
Client
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Make Bubbles Pop
Client-side mod that makes bubble particles pop and lets them rise realistically to the water surface.
9.24M
2,357
4 months ago
Client
Adventure
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
Quilt
Sounds
It's what it says on the tin. A complete upgrade to Minecraft's SFX with over 170 new sound effects for UIs, items, blocks and more.
8.40M
3,228
2 months ago
Client
Game Mechanics
Social
Utility
Fabric
Forge
+1
ThreadTweak
Improve and tweak Minecraft thread scheduling. Fork of Smooth Boot for ≥1.20
7.63M
917
10 months ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Blur+
Spices up the boring vanilla blur effect – featuring animations, colors and lots of customizability!
7.42M
3,227
2 weeks ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
NeoForge
Quilt
Do a Barrel Roll
Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.
7.20M
3,409
2 months ago
Client
Equipment
Transportation
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Nvidium
Fast nvidia only rendering engine for sodium
6.21M
5,197
Last year
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Quilt
Carpet
Take full control over your vanilla game
5.95M
2,185
2 months ago
Server
Game Mechanics
Utility
Fabric
Drip Sounds
Adds sounds for drip particles landing & settings for block particles
5.59M
1,686
3 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Enhanced Attack Indicator
Uses the attack indicator for more than just melee attacks
5.43M
772
4 months ago
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
NeoForge
Nyf's Spiders
Modifes spiders to be more realistic
4.69M
1,958
Last month
Client and server
Mobs
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
Wakes
Adds splashes and wakes while traveling on water
4.43M
3,349
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Status Effect Bars
Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.
4.39M
2,902
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
ViaFabricPlus
Minecraft Fabric mod which allows you to join EVERY Minecraft server version (Classic, Alpha, Beta, Release, April Fools, Bedrock)
4.23M
941
2 weeks ago
Client
Cursed
Library
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Held Item Info
Shows information (like enchantments) about the held item under its name.
3.96M
1,430
4 months ago
Client
Decoration
Equipment
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Smooth Swapping
Moves items smoothly in inventories
3.92M
2,297
2 months ago
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
Explosive Enhancement
Makes the explosion animation look cooler.
3.89M
2,906
2 months ago
Client
Adventure
Decoration
Fabric
Full Brightness Toggle
🔆 Press G to toggle the brightness/gamma in-game to maximum and get fullbright night vision.
3.62M
892
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
Detail Armor Bar
More detail about armor in Armor bar!
3.12M
1,405
Last year
Client
Equipment
Utility
Fabric
Forge
Quilt
MacOS Input Fixes
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!
2.84M
163
2 months ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
ClearDespawn
Make items blink when they're about to despawn
2.60M
961
2 years ago
Client
Utility
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
No Telemetry
Disable the telemetry introduced in 21w38a
2.38M
975
Last month
Client
Fabric
Forge
NeoForge
Quilt
Effective
Fabric client-side mod designed to improve Minecraft's ambience through particles, visual effects and sounds
2.35M
3,176
Last year
Client
Decoration
Fabric
Quilt
Smooth Boot (Fabric)
Improve Minecraft CPU scheduling
2.32M
1,201
3 years ago
Client or server
Optimization
Utility
Fabric
Quilt
Snapper
Screenshots, made simple
57.3k
101
3 months ago
Client
Management
Social
Utility
Fabric
MetalRender
Optimisation mod for Apple Silicon hardware.
2,255
37
4 months ago
Client
Optimization
Fabric
Description

A list of vanilla like mods I recommend although some of these may be considered cheats, depending on what servers you play on. This also may not include all dependencies

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thinkseal
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Created last year Updated 3 months ago