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.

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

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

Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

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

Alternative Options Menu for Sodium

Bringing first-person animations to the third-person

A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures

Makes chat unreportable (where possible)

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

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

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

A zoom mod with infinite customizability.

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

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 for Fabric.

See who you're chatting with!

Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models

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

A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack

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

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

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

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.

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

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

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

#listentonature

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

Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.

Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Makes the game boot faster by deferring non-essential initialization

Increases the maximum length of chat history.

Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering

See farther without turning your game into a slide show

Allows resource packs to define custom skyboxes.

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!

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

Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

A mod implementing the OptiFine/MCPatcher animated texture format

Improves third person camera view.

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

Modifies how worlds are loaded to speed up loading times.

Adds the best controller support to Minecraft Java edition!

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

Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses

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

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

Fast nvidia only rendering engine for sodium

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

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!

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.

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

Adds sounds for drip particles landing & settings for block particles

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.

Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.

Modifes spiders to be more realistic

Uses the attack indicator for more than just melee attacks

Adds splashes and wakes while traveling on water

Take full control over your vanilla game

Moves items smoothly in inventories

Make items blink when they're about to despawn

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

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!

Makes the explosion animation look cooler.

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

Improve Minecraft CPU scheduling

🔆 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