Vital Modpack
ModpackAlternative to the Essential mod with world hosting features, free cosmetics, and much more!
Type
Modpack
Modrinth Downloads
13,255
Modrinth ID
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Last Updated
Jul 29, 2026
Description
Vital is a modpack designed as a QoL and performance modpack that dually serves as an alternative to Essential and OptiFine.
It includes the majority of Essential and OptiFine's features, including world hosting, cosmetics, many resource pack features, shaders, and so much more.
⭐ Features
🚀 Major performance improvement
Vital is built on top of the bleeding edge Simply Optimized Forked modpack, which improves the performance of every aspect of the game.
🔷 Essential features
Vital contains quite a few mods to replace Essential's features!
- Free world hosting that's secure and private, and does not require the other players to use it
- Simply click "Open to Friends" in the menu to get an IP address you can send to your friends to play!
- Completely free cosmetics!
- You can access these in the mod menu or settings menu. You could also visit the Cosmetica website!
- A bunch of neat skin management features
- Accessible through the main menu!
- Screenshot improvements
- When you take a screenshot, it will let you view it easily. You can also manage your screenshots in-game!
- Log into different accounts from ingame.
- Simply go into the main menu and select the account switcher!
- In-game recording
- Via the brilliant Flashback mod!
- Better organized main menu
- Inspired by Essentials layout; intended to be in the style of vanilla!
🔍 OptiFine features
Vital utilizes the core mods needed to bring over all of OptiFine's benefits;
- OptiFine resource pack features
- Built-in shaders support
- Dynamic lighting from held objects
- Better grass and snow
- OptiFine donator capes (and free capes)
- All OptiFine features and more information on the wiki
💡 Quality of Life
Vital also includes some extra features unrelated to OptiFine, although I aim to keep this list of mods minimal. Mods are suitable for the "other features" section if they are lightweight and unobtrusive. This includes things like:
- Small input fixes for MacOS and Linux players
- Borderless fullscreen window setting in the video settings
- All other features and more information on the Additive wiki
✅ Hardware Compatibility
For Hardware Compatibility information, see the corresponding section in Sodium's Modrinth description.
🐛 How to Report Issues
Experiencing bugs, crashes, or other issues? Feel free to open an issue on the issue tracker. Be sure to include necessary information like your hardware/software (e.g. GPU and CPU, modpack version and OS) so that it's easier for us to find issues and resolve them.
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Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
ImmediatelyFast
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Fabric API
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EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
![[ETF] Entity Texture Features](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/BVzZfTc1/af683d206d50b05258d865b0d6e4aa2f2cee12f2_96.webp)
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Crash Assistant
Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
Fast IP Ping
Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
Zoomify
A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
ServerCore
A mod that aims to optimize the minecraft server.
M.R.U
A library mod used by Cassian and IMB11's mods to function.
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
UniLib
A common set of Utilities, designed for over 50 versions of Minecraft!
Reimagined GUI (Dark)
Reimagined Minecraft GUI | Dark Theme
e4mc
Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Chat Reporting Helper
An educational tool that explains chat reporting in a simple and neutral way.
Screenshot Gallery
in game gallery to see your screenshots
Sounds
Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...
Cubes Without Borders
A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.
![[ESF] Entity Sound Features](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/IMuO8COj/a46f4aa1a729bd9114ce610df40b543c144a95d5_96.webp)
[ESF] Entity Sound Features
Allows for entity sound variation using OptiFine format property rules
Flashback
Record your Minecraft gameplay, play it back and create stunning cinematic shots
Immersive Optimization
A lightweight entity-tick-scheduler for doubling your TPS.
Ixeris
Buffered raw input and threaded event polling
Language Reload
Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages
Skyboxify
A skybox mod that allows you to use OptiFine skies in Fabric 1.21+
Main Menu Credits
Adds a way of adding information to the user's title screen.
Config Manager
A minecraft mod that allows modpack developers to ship configuration file in the most user-friendly way possible
Puzzle
Adds resourcepack features and a GUI to more conveniently configure OptiFine alternatives.
OptiGUI
Blazing fast custom GUI textures on Fabric and Quilt with built-in OptiFine custom GUI resource pack support
ScalableLux
A Fabric mod based on Starlight that improves the performance of light updates in Minecraft.
CalcMod
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AsyncParticles(Archived)
Async particle ticking/rendering.
Ears (+ Snouts/Muzzles, Tails, Horns, Wings, and More)
More skin customization options for just about every version + skin backports for pre-1.9 versions. Skinport port patch...
McQoy
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No Prying Eyes
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Shuttfup
A mod that fixes some minor annoyances!
Emotecraft (Fabric)
Emotes in minecraft
ModernFix-mVUS
A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.
Fast Noise
This optimizes noise generation
MacOS Input Fixes
This mod fixes many Minecraft macOS input bugs. It makes scrolling with shift work properly on macOS, left click + contr...
Cull Fewer Leaves
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RenderScale
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Nvidium
Fast nvidia only rendering engine for sodium
Controlify (Controller support)
Adds controller support to Minecraft!
Player Animation Library
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Resourcify
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Skin Shuffle
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Better Block Entities
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quick pack
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LambdaBetterGrass
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Cosmetica
Free custom capes and cosmetics for Minecraft
In-Game Account Switcher
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Simple Music Control
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KryptonFNP Patcher
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Reimagined GUI (Light)
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Chat Emoji Mod
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Jasione
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