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Vanilla Plus

Modpack

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

Type

Modpack

Modrinth Downloads

12,269

Modrinth ID

Xd31u0tv

Last Updated

Sep 12, 2026

Description

Vanilla Plus

Vanilla Plus is a lightweight Vanilla+ client-side modpack focused on stunning visuals, high performance, immersive audio, and quality-of-life improvements — while preserving the original Minecraft experience.

The goal is simple: Minecraft, just better. No new gameplay mechanics, no balance changes — only a smoother, cleaner, and more immersive vanilla experience.

🟩 Visuals & Immersion

  • Iris Shaders with Complementary Shaders – Reimagined
  • Improved lighting, weather, clouds, rain, and atmospheric effects
  • High-quality particle enhancements
  • Connected textures and seamless block transitions
  • Fresh Animations with extended entity animations
  • 3D models for armor, food, books, flowers, crops, ores, paintings, shields, and more
  • Enhanced item, entity, and environment visuals

🟫 Audio Experience

  • Realistic sound propagation with Sound Physics Remastered
  • Enhanced thunder, rain, ambient sounds, and music
  • Increased sound channel limits for richer environments

🟦 Quality of Life

  • Better inventory management and sorting
  • Improved UI with smooth animations and scrolling
  • Dynamic crosshair and cleaner HUD elements
  • Zoom, held item information, and pickup notifications
  • Shulker previews and numerous interface improvements
  • Click-through inventory interactions

🟨 Performance

  • Modern Fabric optimization stack
  • Sodium + Iris + ImmediatelyFast + Entity Culling + More Culling
  • Optimized rendering, particles, models, and chunk loading
  • Excellent FPS with or without shaders
  • No gameplay compromises or visual shortcuts

🧱 Building & Exploration

  • Axiom for advanced building and world editing
  • Voxy for massive view distances and efficient terrain rendering
  • Great for creative projects, screenshots, and large survival worlds

🌍 Multiplayer

  • Fully client-side
  • Compatible with vanilla servers
  • Built-in proximity voice chat
  • No server-side installation required

💎 Features

  • Vanilla-compatible worlds
  • No new items, mobs, or gameplay mechanics
  • Beautiful visuals and immersive atmosphere
  • Smooth animations and responsive UI
  • High performance
  • Perfect for survival, building, exploration, and multiplayer

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

1.21.4 1.21.6 1.21.11

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Mod 254,557,865
[ETF] Entity Texture Features

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Mod 110,167,872
3D Skin Layers

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Render the player skin layer in 3d!

Mod 83,733,862
Actually 3D Stuff

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Resource Pack 1,304,129
Animated Items

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Animates various item textures

Resource Pack 2,928,764
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 520,631,185
Axiom

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Mod 14,178,149
Better Block Entities

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Mod 13,378,319
Boat Item View

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See your held items as you row your boat!

Mod 31,805,517
Bookshelf Inspector

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Inspect any book in a chiseled bookshelf.

Mod 2,140,736
Bray & Cyber's Better, Fresher 3D Books

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

Resource Pack 1,128,801
ClickThrough Plus

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Mod 2,134,898
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

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Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 570,608,694
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

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

Shader 255,418,413
Continuity

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Mod 145,553,178
Cool Rain

Cool Rain

Creates ambient sounds for certain blocks during rain

Mod 8,241,410
Cubes Without Borders

Cubes Without Borders

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

Mod 45,766,819
Delight-map

Delight-map

Subtle tweaks to Minecrafts lighting, works in vanilla!

Resource Pack 31,052
Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed

Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed

More details about armor in the armor bar!

Mod 4,783,539
Detailed Animations

Detailed Animations

Actually decent player animations.

Resource Pack 5,329,407
Dynamic Crosshair

Dynamic Crosshair

A mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context

Mod 22,063,895
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

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Mod 425,284,963
Explosive Enhancement

Explosive Enhancement

Makes the explosion animation look cooler.

Mod 8,519,180
Fabric API

Fabric API

Core API library for the Fabric toolchain

Mod 525,171,075
Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric language module for Kotlin

Mod 217,487,902
FancyFast Bushy Leaves

FancyFast Bushy Leaves

Forces Fast Leaves rendering to improve performance with bushy textures, ensuring better FPS in dense biomes like jungle...

Resource Pack 1,656,093
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 13,982,395
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 64,512
Forge Config API Port

Forge Config API Port

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Mod 155,990,048
Freecam

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A highly customizable freecam mod.

Mod 22,909,646
Fresh Animations

Fresh Animations

Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.

Resource Pack 51,385,051
Fresh Animations: Extensions

Fresh Animations: Extensions

A combination of offical extension packs for Fresh Animations

Resource Pack 11,853,349
Fresh Flower Pots

Fresh Flower Pots

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

Resource Pack 3,278,672
Fresh Flowers and Plants

Fresh Flowers and Plants

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

Resource Pack 1,444,098
Fresh Food

Fresh Food

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

Resource Pack 2,851,120
Fresh Music Discs

Fresh Music Discs

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

Resource Pack 1,217,467
Fresh Ores and Ingots

Fresh Ores and Ingots

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

Resource Pack 466,317
Fresh Paintings

Fresh Paintings

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

Resource Pack 65,821
Fzzy Config

Fzzy Config

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

Mod 141,533,406
Glowing Items

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Adds a colorful outline to various items

Resource Pack 112,911
Glowy Nether Portals

Glowy Nether Portals

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Resource Pack 624,024
Held Item Info

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

Mod 9,997,794
Hold My Items

Hold My Items

Make your hands visible in first person!

Mod 7,130,952
Horse Armor & Stuff x Fresh Animations

Horse Armor & Stuff x Fresh Animations

A pack that makes Horse Armor & Stuff compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!

Resource Pack 782,594
I Like Vanilla

I Like Vanilla

A shader that improves minecraft's style instead of replacing it

Shader 3,993,621
Icons

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Introduces icons throughout different aspects of the game

Resource Pack 4,549,608
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 331,976,895
Immersive Hotbar

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Adds animations to the hotbar to make it more immersive

Mod 4,917,762
ImmersiveThunder: Reforged

ImmersiveThunder: Reforged

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InvMove

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Mod 24,853,048
Iris Shaders

Iris Shaders

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

Mod 192,724,990
Just 3D Armors HMI

Just 3D Armors HMI

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Resource Pack 837,731
Language Reload

Language Reload

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Mod 75,862,548
LibJF

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Mod 22,210,984
Lightweight Inventory Sorting

Lightweight Inventory Sorting

Lightweight client-side inventory sorting with no extra fluff

Mod 551,756
Lite Weather

Lite Weather

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Resource Pack 2,309
Low Fire

Low Fire

Lower your first-person fire to enhance visibility!

Resource Pack 8,079,476
Low Shield

Low Shield

Lower your shield for a visible view!

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M.R.U

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MakeUp - Ultra Fast

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Shader 14,072,045
Mod Menu

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Mod 243,768,149
ModernFix-mVUS

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Mod 13,632,503
MoreCulling

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Mod 102,641,836
Moss Panorama

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Mouse Tweaks

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Mod 550,150,519
Not Enough Crashes

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Mod 16,196,083
OptiGUI

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Mod 41,145,999
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Particle Core

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Mod 56,392,953
Particle Rain

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replaces the default weather with particle effects

Mod 43,399,000
Particular ✨ Reforged

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Pickup Notifications

Pickup Notifications

Show notifications on item pickup.

Mod 2,080,532
Polytone

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Mod 30,115,238
qrafty's Capitalized Font

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Resource Pack 3,497,865
Quieter Fireflies

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Resource Pack 2,046
Raise Sound Limit Simplified

Raise Sound Limit Simplified

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Mod 4,487,896
Reese's Sodium Options

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Remove Reloading Screen

Remove Reloading Screen

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

Mod 46,368,509
Respackopts

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Config menus for resource packs

Mod 16,706,379
Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]

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Mod 61,804,163
Simple Voice Chat

Simple Voice Chat

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

Mod 203,235,495
Smooth Gui

Smooth Gui

Makes menu screens open with a smooth animation.

Mod 5,742,687
Smooth Scrolling

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

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Smooth Swapping

Smooth Swapping

Moves items smoothly in inventories

Mod 16,246,632
Sodium

Sodium

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

Mod 411,868,794
Sodium Extra

Sodium Extra

Features that shouldn't be in Sodium

Mod 181,734,636
Soft Weather

Soft Weather

Makes rain and snow less visually obtrusive.

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Sound Physics Remastered

Sound Physics Remastered

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

Mod 212,024,746
Sound​s

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

Mod 38,032,464
Story Mode Clouds

Story Mode Clouds

Adds the clouds from Minecraft Story Mode into the main game.

Resource Pack 839,820
Text Placeholder API

Text Placeholder API

Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.

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Theone's Eating Animation Pack

Theone's Eating Animation Pack

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

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Unique Dark

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Resource Pack 3,933,573
Visual: Armor Trims

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Resource Pack 4,234,432
voxy

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Mod 7,576,369
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