HeXHub.net optimized | Handheld
ModpackShader- and Distant Horizons–ready client pack, optimized for entry-level gaming PCs or devices like the Steam Deck, compatible with unmodded multiplayer.
Description
About
A client-side Fabric pack for vanilla multiplayer. It changes no gameplay, adds no items and needs nothing installed on the server — you can join any vanilla or Paper server with it, modded or not.
Built and tested for HeXHub.net, so it is preconfigured for that network out of the box. Nothing ties it to HeXHub, though; it works just as well anywhere else.
What's inside
- Performance — Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, EntityCulling, C2ME and friends. The game runs better than vanilla before you touch a setting.
- View distance — Distant Horizons renders terrain far past the chunk limit your server hands out.
- Shaders — Complementary Shaders by EminGT via Iris, preconfigured and ready. Euphoria Patcher assembles it on first launch.
- Visuals — connected textures, custom entity models and textures from resource packs, better skies, particles, explosions and weather.
- Audio — realistic sound occlusion and reverb, per-block footsteps, and proximity voice chat via Simple Voice Chat (needs the server to run it — HeXHub does).
- Chat — player heads next to messages, longer history, working chat search and copy.
- Interface — Xaero's minimap and world map, tooltips via Jade, hunger and saturation via AppleSkin, a readable F3 screen, zoom, free look.
- Input — full controller support via Controlify, including Steam Deck.
- Menu — custom main menu with HeXHub.net already in the server list.
Full mod list on the Versions tab.
Fair play
This pack is meant to be usable on servers that ban cheat clients, so it stays on the right side of that line by default:
- The minimap ships without cave view, entity radar or anything else that shows you what you could not see yourself.
- Free look turns your head without moving you. No freecam, no spectator mode, nothing that detaches the camera from your body.
- The locator bar only shows what the server chooses to send.
- Nothing that automates play.
Fair-play settings are the defaults, not a lock. If you change them, that is between you and the server you play on.
Settings
Everything is preconfigured — graphics, shaders, map, utilities — so the pack works out of the box.
Keybinds are cleaned up only where mods collide. Vanilla keys and the keys you actually use stay where you expect them; minor mod keys get moved or unbound.
Mouse and gameplay options stay at vanilla defaults. Audio does not: sound occlusion, reverb and footsteps are part of what this pack is for. Everything is a toggle away in the mod menu.
YOSBR keeps your own settings across updates. Pack defaults apply only on a fresh install, or when a new mod arrives without an existing config.
About Distant Horizons
Distant Horizons builds its long-range terrain from chunks you have loaded, so the view keeps growing as you explore — and stays that way on your next visit. It needs nothing on the server side.
This edition — Handheld
For handhelds and entry-level gaming PCs. Shaders and Distant Horizons are on, tuned for a stable frame rate on a small power budget rather than maximum detail. Controller layout and UI scale are set up for a handheld screen.
Reference device: Steam Deck OLED
Which edition?
| Target | Shaders | Reference device | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potato | old laptops, weak PCs | no | i7-7200U, 8 GB |
| Handheld (this one) | handhelds, entry-level PCs | yes | Steam Deck OLED |
| Enhanced | gaming PCs | yes | RTX 3070, 32 GB |
The core mod list is shared across editions — what differs is the preconfiguration, and which visual and audio mods are included at all.
Minecraft versions
Tracks recent releases, currently 26.1.2, with builds for 1.21.10–1.21.11 and 1.21.8. Version support follows what HeXHub.net runs.
Status
Alpha. Under active development, updated often, expect the occasional rough edge. Feedback is welcome on Discord.
License and attribution
Mods are not redistributed by this pack — your launcher downloads them from their original authors, under their own licenses.
Only the pack's own files (configs, assets, texts) are covered by this project's MIT license.
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Contained Mods (72)
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Fresh Animations
Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
Xaero's Minimap
Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...
Xaero's World Map
Adds a fullscreen worldmap which shows you what you have explored in the world. Can work together with Xaero's Minimap.
Better Block Entities
A Minecraft optimization mod for Fabric/Sodium that improves FPS / Block Entity Rendering by implementing a Hybrid Rende...
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
MakeUp - Ultra Fast
MakeUp aims to provide the best quality / performance ratio, building a shader that can be adapted to anyone's resources...
Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]
Makes chat messages appear with a smooth animation.
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
MidnightLib
Common library with a built-in configuration system
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Cull Leaves
Adds culling to leaf blocks, providing a huge performance boost over vanilla.
Held Item Info
Shows information (like enchantments) about the held item under its name
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Zoomify
A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
BetterF3
A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.
Chat Patches
A Minecraft-Fabric client-side mod that touches up a few aspects of Minecraft's mundane chat.
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Language Reload
Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages
Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
Puzzle
Adds resourcepack features and a GUI to more conveniently configure OptiFine alternatives.
Distant Horizons
See farther without turning your game into a slide show
FancyMenu
Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!
Controlify (Controller support)
Adds controller support to Minecraft!
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Visuality
Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
Melody
OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.
Chunks fade in
A simple mod that adds fade-in animation for chunks!
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks
Reintroduces vanilla-like smooth lighting to non-full blocks (e.g. dirt paths and how they have dark shading when direct...
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
FreeLook
Look around without changing your direction of movement!
Fabric Capes
Lets you use capes from OptiFine, LabyMod and other cape mods
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Presence Footsteps
An overly complicated sound mod
Euphoria Patches
Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Text Placeholder API
Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.
Server Pinger Fixer
Improves pinging speed of the multiplayer server list
Sylbobek's Shader Pack
Realistic, FPS-friendly shaders - soft shadows, procedural sky, waving plants, glowing lights and cinematic colors.
Immersive Storms
Immersive fog and weather effects for mountains, deserts, pale gardens, and more!
Player Locator Plus
Track other players' locations on your experience bar like a compass!
Explosive Enhancement
Makes the explosion animation look cooler.
Particle Tweaks
Substantially improves particles!
Dark Green Tooltip (Monochrome)
Changes the Minecraft Tooltip to be Dark Green (Monochrome) – Part of the Pride Tooltips collection.
Talking Heads
Client-side Addon for Plasmo Voice & Simple Voice Chat, that scales player heads when they're talking.
FrozenLib
FrozenBlock's Giant Library of Shelves
Atmosfera
Adds atmospheric sounds to Minecraft!
MidnightControls
Adds controller support and enhanced controls overall.
Better Foliage
I made Minecraft foliage look better by giving plants variation and other tweaks
PatPat [Mod]
Allows you to pat ANY loved and unloved living mobs in Minecraft!
More Chat History
Increases the size of the chat history.
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
E-LITE shaders (MakeUp edit)
A MakeUp - Ultra Fast shaders edit that is highly customizable, beautiful, and fast!
ResourcePackCached
Keeps server resource packs loaded, so they don't need to be reloaded when you rejoin.
xali's Enhanced Vanilla
The texture pack for people who hate texture pack.
Your Options Shall Be Respected (YOSBR)
Your options shall be respected.