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Vanilla Plus

Modpack

Vanilla Plus modpack focused on performance, visuals and quality-of-life

Type

Modpack

Modrinth Downloads

6,968

Modrinth ID

Xd31u0tv

Last Updated

Apr 12, 2026

Description

Vanilla Plus is a lightweight Vanilla+ modpack focused on visuals, performance, and quality-of-life improvements - without changing core gameplay.

The goal is simple: keep Minecraft vanilla, but make it smoother, cleaner, and more immersive.

✨ Visuals & Atmosphere

  • Iris Shaders with Complementary Shaders – Reimagined
  • Connected textures and cleaner block transitions
  • Improved animations for players, mobs, and items
  • Enhanced ambient and weather sounds

🧭 Quality of Life

  • Better inventory management
  • Cleaner combat visuals and UI feedback
  • Improved camera behavior and zoom
  • Subtle UI animations (no gameplay impact)

🚀 Performance

  • Modern Fabric optimization stack
  • Higher FPS with or without shaders
  • No visual downgrades, no shortcuts

🏗 Builders & Multiplayer

  • Tools for building, planning, and screenshots
  • Fully client-side
  • Compatible with vanilla servers
  • Built-in proximity voice chat

✔ Features

  • Vanilla-compatible saves
  • No new items or mechanics
  • Clean visuals, smooth gameplay
  • Ideal for survival, building, and multiplayer

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

1.21.4 1.21.6 1.21.11

Screenshots

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Contained Mods (73)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 115,491,714
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

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

Mod 39,954,690
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 62,674,117
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

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

Mod 106,353,832
Fabric API

Fabric API

Core API library for the Fabric toolchain

Mod 356,109,708
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]

[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]

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

Mod 176,331,429
YetAnotherConfigLib

YetAnotherConfigLib

A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.

Mod 172,319,449
Sodium

Sodium

The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!

Mod 259,740,403
Iris Shaders

Iris Shaders

A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs

Mod 114,879,123
[ETF] Entity Texture Features

[ETF] Entity Texture Features

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

Mod 71,262,535
3D Skin Layers

3D Skin Layers

Render the player skin layer in 3d!

Mod 50,284,049
Fzzy Config

Fzzy Config

Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!

Mod 22,662,754
Simple Voice Chat

Simple Voice Chat

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

Mod 45,050,486
Forge Config API Port

Forge Config API Port

NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.

Mod 45,571,748
Mod Menu

Mod Menu

Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.

Mod 97,946,175
Reese's Sodium Options

Reese's Sodium Options

Alternative Options Menu for Sodium

Mod 56,646,094
Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric language module for Kotlin

Mod 76,684,260
Continuity

Continuity

A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures

Mod 50,713,852
Sodium Extra

Sodium Extra

Features that shouldn't be in Sodium

Mod 66,529,492
Particular ✨ Reforged

Particular ✨ Reforged

Particular is a mod that enhances Minecraft's ambience with many hand-crafted visual effects. Forge Port !

Mod 2,119,599
Text Placeholder API

Text Placeholder API

Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.

Mod 37,256,561
Freecam

Freecam

A highly customizable freecam mod.

Mod 13,244,607
Axiom

Axiom

The all-in-one tool for editing Minecraft Worlds.

Mod 7,911,575
Dynamic Crosshair

Dynamic Crosshair

A mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context

Mod 16,274,581
Fresh Flower Pots

Fresh Flower Pots

Adds more detail and variation to flower pots with new, vanilla-friendly models

Resource Pack 1,446,783
Detailed Animations

Detailed Animations

Actually decent player animations.

Resource Pack 3,622,188
Smooth Scrolling

Smooth Scrolling

Customize the scrolling smoothness or speed in various places like chat, hotbar, creative screen...

Mod 8,380,326
ClickThrough Plus

ClickThrough Plus

Click through Signs and Item Frames to Chests and other containers - a port of ClickThrough to modern versions.

Mod 1,030,607
Not Enough Crashes

Not Enough Crashes

When crashing, you can go back to the title screen and keep playing, without needing to restart, alongside other things...

Mod 10,275,492
MakeUp - Ultra Fast

MakeUp - Ultra Fast

MakeUp aims to provide the best quality / performance ratio, building a shader that can be adapted to anyone's resources...

Shader 8,239,502
Particle Core

Particle Core

Particle optimizations: Culling, rendering optimizations, configurable particle-type-specific spawn reduction, and potio...

Mod 8,789,608
Zoomify

Zoomify

A zoom mod with infinite customizability.

Mod 45,407,220
Unique Dark

Unique Dark

Dark GUI with unique textures for functional blocks. Dark mode for 78 mods

Resource Pack 2,330,184
Fresh Music Discs

Fresh Music Discs

A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D music disc models!

Resource Pack 538,707
Low Fire

Low Fire

Lower your first-person fire to enhance visibility!

Resource Pack 4,189,444
Fresh Ores and Ingots

Fresh Ores and Ingots

Give ingots, bricks, and ores a 3D makeover for a nicer, more detailed look.

Resource Pack 289,853
M.R.U

M.R.U

Mineblock's Repeated Utilities

Mod 13,120,565
Icons

Icons

Introduces icons throughout different aspects of the game

Resource Pack 2,188,234
Low Shield

Low Shield

Lower your shield for a visible view!

Resource Pack 2,665,782
Fresh Flowers and Plants

Fresh Flowers and Plants

A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D plant and flowers models!

Resource Pack 517,537
Fresh Paintings

Fresh Paintings

A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D paintings and item frames models!

Resource Pack 25,671
Fresh Food

Fresh Food

A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D food models and eating animations!

Resource Pack 1,269,982
Visual: Armor Trims

Visual: Armor Trims

Your favorite armor trims now show up in your inventory! Works in Vanilla 1.21.5+ ⚔️

Resource Pack 2,447,438
Bookshelf Inspector

Bookshelf Inspector

Inspect any book in a chiseled bookshelf.

Mod 1,172,462
voxy

voxy

A Level of Detail rendering mod

Mod 2,626,454
Theone's Eating Animation Pack

Theone's Eating Animation Pack

A texture pack that adds sprite animations for edible and drinkable items.

Resource Pack 1,529,100
Animated Items

Animated Items

Animates various item textures

Resource Pack 1,765,319
Fast Better Grass For Simple Grass Flowers

Fast Better Grass For Simple Grass Flowers

A texture that adds compatibility between Fast Better Grass and Simple Grass Flowers textures

Resource Pack 20,979
Soft Weather

Soft Weather

Makes rain and snow less visually obtrusive.

Resource Pack 19,234
Fast Better Grass

Fast Better Grass

Makes grass and related blocks use the top texture on the sides. Works with other resource packs!

Resource Pack 9,775,732
Bray & Cyber's Better, Fresher 3D Books

Bray & Cyber's Better, Fresher 3D Books

A collaboration pack between Bray and Cyber to make 3D book models for all enchanted book variations!

Resource Pack 412,061
Moss Panorama

Moss Panorama

A custom panorama for Minecraft 1.21.X

Resource Pack 2,445
Glowing Items

Glowing Items

Adds a colorful outline to various items

Resource Pack 36,369
Delight-map

Delight-map

Subtle tweaks to Minecrafts lighting, works in vanilla!

Resource Pack 14,839
Sound​s

Sound​s

Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...

Mod 10,654,437
Cubes Without Borders

Cubes Without Borders

A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.

Mod 18,029,551
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Shader 46,678,109
Boat Item View

Boat Item View

See your held items when in a moving boat!

Mod 9,704,607
Language Reload

Language Reload

Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages

Mod 28,265,498
OptiGUI

OptiGUI

Blazing fast custom GUI textures on Fabric and Quilt with built-in OptiFine custom GUI resource pack support

Mod 18,601,656
InvMove

InvMove

Adds the ability to walk around while in inventories

Mod 12,414,186
Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]

Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]

What's in my shulker box?

Mod 25,450,572
Polytone

Polytone

Custom Block Sounds, Colors, Lightmaps, Colormaps, Custom Item Models, Biome Variant Textures, Gui modifiers, Tooltips,...

Mod 10,383,018
LibJF

LibJF

A library for my mods

Mod 7,709,266
Respackopts

Respackopts

Config menus for resource packs

Mod 5,118,809
Raise Sound Limit Simplified

Raise Sound Limit Simplified

A mod that raises Minecraft sound sources limit in a simple way

Mod 2,131,291
ModernFix-mVUS

ModernFix-mVUS

A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.

Mod 2,094,538
Explosive Enhancement

Explosive Enhancement

Makes the explosion animation look cooler.

Mod 4,569,354
Better Block Entities

Better Block Entities

A Minecraft optimization mod for Fabric/Sodium that improves FPS / Block Entity Rendering by implementing a Hybrid Rende...

Mod 1,634,703
Hold My Items

Hold My Items

Make your hands visible in first person!

Mod 4,124,644
Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed

Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed

More details about armor in the armor bar!

Mod 1,646,069
Pickup Notifications

Pickup Notifications

Show notifications on item pickup.

Mod 968,170
Lightweight Inventory Sorting

Lightweight Inventory Sorting

Lightweight client-side inventory sorting with no extra fluff

Mod 0

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