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

Memory usage optimizations

Using async path-tracing to hide Block-/Entities that are not visible

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

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

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

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

Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

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

Bringing first-person animations to the third-person

Alternative Options Menu for Sodium

A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures

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

A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance

A zoom mod with infinite customizability.

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

Makes chat unreportable (where possible)

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

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

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

See who you're chatting with!

A mod that fixes random memory leaks for both the client and server

A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack

Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models

..An Overly complicated Sound Mod...

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

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

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

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View the contents of shulker boxes from your inventory

Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering

Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker

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

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

Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.

See farther without turning your game into a slide show

Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.

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

Adds a neat little particle effect to leaf blocks

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

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

Increases the maximum length of chat history.

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

A mod implementing the OptiFine/MCPatcher animated texture format

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

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

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

Improves third person camera view.

Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses

Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

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

Adds the best controller support to Minecraft Java edition!

Makes the game boot faster by deferring non-essential initialization

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.

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

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

Allows resource packs to define custom skyboxes.

Modifies how worlds are loaded to speed up loading times.

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

Fixes Tooltips from runnning off the screen.

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

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.

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

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

Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.

Fast nvidia only rendering engine for sodium

Take full control over your vanilla game

Adds sounds for drip particles landing & settings for block particles

Uses the attack indicator for more than just melee attacks

Modifes spiders to be more realistic

Adds splashes and wakes while traveling on water

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

Minecraft Fabric mod which allows you to join EVERY Minecraft server version (Classic, Alpha, Beta, Release, April Fools, Bedrock)

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

Moves items smoothly in inventories

Makes the explosion animation look cooler.

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

More detail about armor in Armor bar!

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!

Make items blink when they're about to despawn

Disable the telemetry introduced in 21w38a

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

Improve Minecraft CPU scheduling

Screenshots, made simple

Optimisation mod for Apple Silicon hardware.