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Vanilla Plus

Modpack

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

Type

Modpack

Modrinth Downloads

8,014

Modrinth ID

Xd31u0tv

Last Updated

May 28, 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 (86)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 476,642,993
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

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

Mod 498,595,108
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 462,737,396
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 248,242,713
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

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

Mod 321,917,412
Fabric API

Fabric API

Core API library for the Fabric toolchain

Mod 388,934,895
[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 194,599,345
YetAnotherConfigLib

YetAnotherConfigLib

A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.

Mod 192,605,331
Sodium

Sodium

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

Mod 290,619,257
Iris Shaders

Iris Shaders

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

Mod 129,478,044
[ETF] Entity Texture Features

[ETF] Entity Texture Features

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

Mod 78,691,834
3D Skin Layers

3D Skin Layers

Render the player skin layer in 3d!

Mod 56,620,017
Sound Physics Remastered

Sound Physics Remastered

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

Mod 170,010,197
Fzzy Config

Fzzy Config

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

Mod 97,936,011
Simple Voice Chat

Simple Voice Chat

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

Mod 154,669,561
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 121,367,572
Mod Menu

Mod Menu

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

Mod 180,984,569
Reese's Sodium Options

Reese's Sodium Options

Alternative Options Menu for Sodium

Mod 127,465,591
Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric language module for Kotlin

Mod 162,009,605
Continuity

Continuity

A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures

Mod 109,762,766
Sodium Extra

Sodium Extra

Features that shouldn't be in Sodium

Mod 136,481,254
Particular ✨ Reforged

Particular ✨ Reforged

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

Mod 26,449,568
Text Placeholder API

Text Placeholder API

Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.

Mod 43,517,323
Freecam

Freecam

A highly customizable freecam mod.

Mod 14,958,486
Axiom

Axiom

Small additions to Minecraft

Mod 9,133,934
Fresh Animations

Fresh Animations

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

Resource Pack 35,596,661
Dynamic Crosshair

Dynamic Crosshair

A mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context

Mod 17,333,451
Fresh Flower Pots

Fresh Flower Pots

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

Resource Pack 1,772,927
(Bee's) Fancy Crops

(Bee's) Fancy Crops

My take on prettier farming, compatible with mods

Resource Pack 5,794,192
Detailed Animations

Detailed Animations

Actually decent player animations.

Resource Pack 4,021,694
Smooth Scrolling

Smooth Scrolling

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

Mod 9,246,692
ClickThrough Plus

ClickThrough Plus

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

Mod 1,236,461
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 11,359,845
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 9,378,005
Particle Core

Particle Core

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

Mod 38,217,865
Zoomify

Zoomify

A zoom mod with infinite customizability.

Mod 88,356,444
Unique Dark

Unique Dark

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

Resource Pack 2,675,788
Fresh Music Discs

Fresh Music Discs

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

Resource Pack 666,541
Low Fire

Low Fire

Lower your first-person fire to enhance visibility!

Resource Pack 4,974,628
Fresh Ores and Ingots

Fresh Ores and Ingots

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

Resource Pack 343,844
M.R.U

M.R.U

Mineblock's Repeated Utilities

Mod 40,527,379
Icons

Icons

Introduces icons throughout different aspects of the game

Resource Pack 2,608,878
MoreCulling

MoreCulling

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

Mod 71,881,807
Low Shield

Low Shield

Lower your shield for a visible view!

Resource Pack 3,215,721
Fresh Flowers and Plants

Fresh Flowers and Plants

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

Resource Pack 677,404
Fresh Paintings

Fresh Paintings

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

Resource Pack 34,738
Fresh Food

Fresh Food

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

Resource Pack 1,562,527
Visual: Armor Trims

Visual: Armor Trims

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

Resource Pack 2,840,631
Bookshelf Inspector

Bookshelf Inspector

Inspect any book in a chiseled bookshelf.

Mod 1,366,246
voxy

voxy

A Level of Detail rendering mod

Mod 3,547,942
Theone's Eating Animation Pack

Theone's Eating Animation Pack

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

Resource Pack 1,771,184
Animated Items

Animated Items

Animates various item textures

Resource Pack 2,079,810
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 29,132
Soft Weather

Soft Weather

Makes rain and snow less visually obtrusive.

Resource Pack 25,828
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 10,569,832
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 552,459
Moss Panorama

Moss Panorama

A custom panorama for Minecraft 1.21.X

Resource Pack 3,089
Glowing Items

Glowing Items

Adds a colorful outline to various items

Resource Pack 40,714
Delight-map

Delight-map

Subtle tweaks to Minecrafts lighting, works in vanilla!

Resource Pack 18,040
Sound​s

Sound​s

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

Mod 24,793,023
Fresh Animations: Extensions

Fresh Animations: Extensions

A combination of offical extension packs for Fresh Animations

Resource Pack 8,098,331
Cubes Without Borders

Cubes Without Borders

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

Mod 31,875,187
qrafty's Capitalized Font

qrafty's Capitalized Font

This pack replaces lowercase letters with a smaller version of the capitalized letters, as seen on some servers. 🫐

Resource Pack 2,450,297
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

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

Shader 204,813,266
Boat Item View

Boat Item View

See your held items when in a moving boat!

Mod 25,804,911
Language Reload

Language Reload

Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages

Mod 59,323,004
OptiGUI

OptiGUI

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

Mod 32,423,873
Remove Reloading Screen

Remove Reloading Screen

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

Mod 34,981,291
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 1,288,712
InvMove

InvMove

Adds the ability to walk around while in inventories

Mod 18,786,588
Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]

Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]

What's in my shulker box?

Mod 45,793,770
Polytone

Polytone

Custom Block Sounds, Colors, Lightmaps, Colormaps, Post Shaders, Custom Item Models, Biome Variant Textures, Gui modifi...

Mod 19,632,223
LibJF

LibJF

A library for my mods

Mod 12,845,769
Respackopts

Respackopts

Config menus for resource packs

Mod 9,549,410
Raise Sound Limit Simplified

Raise Sound Limit Simplified

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

Mod 2,938,251
ModernFix-mVUS

ModernFix-mVUS

A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.

Mod 3,512,312
Smooth Swapping

Smooth Swapping

Moves items smoothly in inventories

Mod 11,226,810
Held Item Info

Held Item Info

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

Mod 8,355,271
Explosive Enhancement

Explosive Enhancement

Makes the explosion animation look cooler.

Mod 6,129,655
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 3,626,283
Hold My Items

Hold My Items

Make your hands visible in first person!

Mod 5,399,557
Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed

Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed

More details about armor in the armor bar!

Mod 2,428,222
Pickup Notifications

Pickup Notifications

Show notifications on item pickup.

Mod 1,215,323
Lightweight Inventory Sorting

Lightweight Inventory Sorting

Lightweight client-side inventory sorting with no extra fluff

Mod 462,763
Lite Weather

Lite Weather

Lite Weather makes rain and snow less distracting.

Resource Pack 250
ImmersiveThunder: Reforged

ImmersiveThunder: Reforged

ImmersiveThunder: Reforged is a Minecraft mod with realistic thunder that changes in volume and intensity based on dista...

Mod 6,875

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