My Mods
In what I like to call "the good ol' days," the only mod that I ever used was OptiFine, as I am what many refer to so lovingly as a "vanilla purist." But as time went on and the OptiFine mod became slower, more bloated, buggier, and more aggressive with its modifications to the game, it became clear to me that an alternative was necessary. At which point I found the mod trio Sodium, Lithium, and Phosphor, alongside a group of other mods that fulfilled OptiFine's many other features. From that day forward, my list of vanilla-esque mods has continued to grow. What follows is my complete list of mods at present.
All of these mods are used with the Fabric Mod Loader.
Compatibility Progress
The listed Minecraft version is the most recent release that each mod officially supports.
- Green means that it officially supports the latest release.
- Yellow means that it doesn't officially support the latest release, but has been tested by me and appears to function properly. (I make no guarantee that it will work for you.)
- Orange means that it won't load in the latest release, but a small modification to the fabric.mod.json file corrects this. It appears to function properly otherwise. (Again, I make no guarantee that it will work for you.)
- Red means that no compatibility with the latest release exists.
- Gray means that the project owner(s) have expressed little/no intention to update the mod to the latest release. These mods are likely to be removed from this list in the near future should they remain unmaintained.
Performance Optimizations
The following mods provide various performance optimizations across multiple layers and aspects of the game.
Asynchronous particle ticking and rendering.
1.21.10
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering.
1.21.10
Reduces lag by rendering block entities as normal blocks.
1.21.4
Skips rendering entities that aren't in view.
1.21.10
Skips reversed DNS lookup for literal IP addresses.
1.21.10
Makes switching between languages instant.
1.21.8
Optimizes general game logic to improve tick speed.
1.21.10
More aggressive block face culling.
1.21.10
Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.
1.21.10
Uses the nvidia rendering engine.
(Original appears abandoned.)
1.21.10
Improves the performance of light updates.
1.21.10
OptiFine/MCPatcher Features
The following mods offer the features of the old MCPatcher - later merged into OptiFine - ported to Fabric and improved upon.
Implements the OptiFine animated texture format.
1.21.6
Implements the OptiFine connected textures format and adds emissive texture support for blocks and items.
1.21.8
Implements the OptiFine custom entity models and animations format.
1.21.10
Implements the OptiFine random and emissive mob textures format.
1.21.10
Implements the OptiFine shader format.
1.21.10
Allows for custom skyboxes in resource packs.
1.21.10
Implements the OptiFine custom GUI format.
1.21.10
Implements the OptiFine custom colors format.
1.21.8
Adds a highly-configurable zoom.
1.21.10
Bug Fixes
These mods simply fix bugs.
Centers the crosshair to be perfectly in the middle of the screen.
1.21.10
Improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs.
1.21.10
Ports the bugfixes offered by the Paper project to Fabric.
1.21.10
Graphical and Audio Enhancements
These mods make slight enhancements to the world's graphics and sounds.
Renders player skins in 3D.
1.21.10
Adds sounds for drip particles landing.
1.21.9
Adds missing third-persion animations and modifies others to be better representative.
1.21.10
Enhances Minecraft's ambience with hand-crafted visual effects.
1.21.10
Provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption.
1.21.10
Adds and enhances sound effects throughout out the world, UI, and chat.
1.21.10
Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
1.21.10
The cape shouldn't be a static slab.
1.21.10
GUI/HUD Improvements
These mods make improvements to the player's GUI and HUD, both for appearance and utility.
Hide only the HUD using F1.
1.21.10
Makes the debug screen highly configurable and easier to read.
1.21.10
Shows both horse health and player hunger while mounted to a horse, donkey, or mule.
1.21.10
Improves the statistics screen.
1.21.10
Spices up the boring vanilla blur effect.
1.21.10
See who you're chatting with!
1.21.10
Touches up a few aspects of the mundane chat.
1.21.10
Removes all fade-out animations.
1.21.10
Show player heads on the locator bar.
1.21.10
Adds lodestones to the player locator bar.
1.21.10
Overhauls the advancements screen.
1.21.10
Better options menu for Sodium.
1.21.10
Adds a smooth animation when moving items between containers.
1.21.10
Adds bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.
1.21.10
Adds little animations when you pick up or insert items with your mouse.
1.21.8
Tools
The following mods provide tools to assist with a variety of tasks.
Favorite certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list.
1.21.10
Allows for taking screenshots of any resolution.
1.21.10
Shows information about what you are looking at.
1.21.10
Provides a holographic overlay of saved builds.
1.21.10
Provides on-screen info on various in-world properties.
1.21.10
Strips the cryptographic signature from chat messages so you can't be reported.
1.21.10
Adds a notepad to the game UI.
1.21.10
Dependencies
The following mods are required by one or more of the mods above to function.
Required by Enhanced Block Entities, Locator Heads, Locator Lodestones, Mod Menu, No Chat Reports, Optiboxes, OptiGUI, Particle Core, Particular Reforged, Shulker Box Tooltip, Smooth Swapping, and Sodium Dynamic Lights.
1.21.10
