Polished Survival
Modpackby Il_Frecciarossa
A carefully curated Fabric modpack that polishes every corner of vanilla Minecraft: better visuals, smoother performance, richer exploration, and quality-of-life improvements that feel like they were always there.
Description
✨ Polished Survival
Vanilla+ · Fabric · 26.1.2
No new dimensions. No magic systems. No tech overload.
Just the game you already love — polished to a shine, optimized to the bone, and beautiful enough to screenshot every five minutes.

Tectonic rebuilds the entire terrain engine from scratch. Mountain ranges feel like mountain ranges — towering, jagged, genuinely worth climbing. Biomes O' Plenty fills every corner of the map with new environments, from golden savannas to crimson badlands, each with unique flora and character. And then there's Distant Horizons — a Level-of-Detail system that extends your render distance to cinematic ranges without tanking your framerate. You'll see terrain dozens of chunks away, shrouded in atmospheric haze, fading into the horizon. It changes how the world feels to inhabit.



Choose from five handpicked shader packs — Complementary Reimagined, Complementary Unbound, BSL, Bliss, and Solas — each with a distinct visual identity, all running through Iris. The atmosphere doesn't stop at visuals: Sound Physics Remastered gives every space its acoustic identity — caves echo, forests absorb, stone chambers reverberate. AmbientSounds layers environmental audio over everything. Presence Footsteps adds a distinct sound to every surface you walk on. Falling Leaves, Cool Rain, and LambDynamicLights handle the rest. The world doesn't just look alive — it sounds alive.



The world is packed with things to find. Dungeons and Taverns, Explorify, Towns and Towers, Moog's Voyager Structures, Moog's End Structures, and several others scatter hundreds of unique structures across every biome — dungeons hidden in cliffsides, abandoned taverns in deep forests, desert villages carved into canyon walls, underwater ruins waiting to be looted. Loot Integrations ties all of it into vanilla's existing loot tables, so every chest you open feels like a genuine reward, not an afterthought.



Performance is not an afterthought. The full optimization stack — Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, C2ME, Entity Culling, More Culling, Dynamic FPS, and more — ensures the client runs as efficiently as the hardware allows. Async chunk loading, aggressive memory management, GPU pipeline optimization, background world saving — every bottleneck has been addressed. Distant Horizons LOD means you get cinematic render distances without paying the framerate cost. This is a beautiful pack that actually runs well.


Every rough edge in vanilla has been smoothed out. JEI for recipes. JourneyMap for navigation. Waystones for fast travel. VeinMiner for mining. RightClickHarvest for farming. Universal Graves so death doesn't cost you everything. AppleSkin for food information. Easy Magic and Easy Anvils for an enchanting system that respects your time. Farmer's Delight for a proper cooking loop. Simple Voice Chat for multiplayer. Lootr so every player gets their own loot in dungeons. Each mod was chosen because it solves a real problem without creating new ones. Nothing here feels out of place. Everything here feels like it should have been in the game all along.

⚡ At a Glance
- 🎨 5 shader packs included — Complementary Reimagined, Complementary Unbound, BSL, Bliss, Solas, MakeUp
- 🏔️ Tectonic + Biomes O' Plenty — dramatic terrain overhaul, 50+ new biomes
- 🔭 Distant Horizons LOD — cinematic render distances without the framerate cost
- 🏰 10+ structure mods — hundreds of handcrafted structures with integrated loot
- 🔊 Full audio overhaul — Sound Physics Remastered, AmbientSounds, Presence Footsteps
- 🚀 Full optimization stack — Sodium, Lithium, C2ME, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast and more
- 🌐 Multiplayer-ready — Simple Voice Chat, Lootr, e4mc, Waystones
- 🔨 Building expanded — Diagonal blocks, Macaw's Roofs, Mo Glass, Stoneworks
- 🍳 Farmer's Delight — a complete cooking and farming expansion
- 🗺️ JEI + JourneyMap + Waystones — navigation and recipe lookup done right


This pack was built by a group of friends, tested across dozens of hours of survival gameplay, and released because we thought other people deserved to play it too.
Polished Survival is for the player who loves Minecraft exactly as it is, and wants it to be exactly as it could be.
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Contained Mods (213)
5555ff-lib
Library used in Jodek's projects
All-in-One VeinMiner & TreeFeller
The ultimate harvesting utility for veins, trees, and 3x3 excavation—featuring Custom Block Manager (with custom block d...
Almanac Lib
A loader independent library containing shared code reused between mods and a fix for empty nbt issues.
AmbientSounds 6
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AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
AttributeFix
Removes arbitrary limits on Minecraft's attribute system.
BaguetteLib
A simple but powerful event library that gives mod developers the control they actually need.
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
Better Block Entities
A Minecraft optimization mod for Fabric/Sodium that improves FPS / Block Entity Rendering by implementing a Hybrid Rende...
Better Client
A client-side mod for a better server experience
Better Climbing
Improves some things related to climbing
Better Clouds
Beautiful clouds in touch with the vanilla style
Better Fps - Render Distance[Fabric]
Better fps for Fabric, 1.16 - 26.1
Better Glass / Clear Glass
Removes the outlines and visual noise from glass!
Better Lanterns
Improves lanterns and chains models with an enhanced 3D look for a more immersive experience.
Better Library
This is just a simple lib for config, 1st join message and live message
Better Spawner Control
✔️ Disables mob spawners whenever they are surrounded by 5 torches.
Better Swords Trims
Adds new smithing trims specially designed to personalize and enhance your swords and armor. Discover powerful combat ef...
BetterF3
A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.
BetterGrassify
Gamers can finally touch grass!? OptiFine's Fancy and Fast better grass implemented on Fabric and NeoForge!
Biomes O' Plenty
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
Bliss Shaders
A well performing fantasy styled shaderpack with emphasis on scene variation and customization.
Bridging Mod
Reacharound Placement (Bedrock Bridging) for Forge, Fabric, & Quilt
BSL Shaders
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]
Makes chat messages appear with a smooth animation.
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Cherished Worlds
Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.
Chest Search Bar
Adds a search bar to containers
CICADA
Confusing, Interesting and Considerably Agnostic Development Aid
Client Crafting
Clientside crafting without network delay
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined
Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
Configured
Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!
Configured Defaults
Allows for providing defaults for files absent in .minecraft like configs. A quintessential modpack utility.
Connectivity
Fix Login timeouts, Packet sizes errors, Payloads errors, ghostblocks and more.
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Cool Rain
Creates ambient sounds for certain blocks during rain
Craft Slabs Back into Blocks [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]
A fully configurable mod that lets you craft slabs back into blocks
Crash Assistant
Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.
CreativeCore
a core mod
Cristel Lib
A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.
Cubes Without Borders
A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
Cut Through
Cleanly swing through transparent blocks like tall grass to hit mobs without breaking said block.
Dark Paintings
Adds new paintings to Minecraft
Deimos Lib
Config and datagen library based on midnight lib
Delete Worlds To Trash
Deleted worlds are gone forever, right? Not anymore! Simply restore them from your recycle bin.
Diagonal Corners
Tired of seeing corners in blocks like glass panels and iron bars? Well, this is the mod for you!
Diagonal Fences
Fences connecting diagonally? Wait. That's illegal.
Diagonal Walls
The missing diagonal blocks are here! After all these years. Finally, you have them all.
Diagonal Windows
Now windows are connecting diagonally, too?! This is getting out of hand!
Dis-Enchanting Table
Recover enchantments from enchanted weapons or books!
Distant Friends
Player like mobs that look at you from a distance
Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod
Massively increase render distance without harming performance.
DnT Ancient City Overhaul
Standalone Splinter version of Dungeons and Taverns Ancient City Overhaul
DnT Desert Temple Overhaul
Overhauls Desert Temples with 4 Variants using new loot tables alongside the Vanilla Loot Tables. The chests at the TNT...
DnT Jungle Temple Overhaul
Overhauls Jungle Temples with 4 Variants using new loot tables alongside the Vanilla Loot Table and can have archeology...
DnT Nether Fortress Overhaul
This Mod Overhauls the Nether Fortress with 1 guaranteed spawner, the fortress inside hallways having decoration and bla...
DnT Ocean Monument Overhaul
This Mod/Datapack Overhauls the Ocean Monument, turning it into a jigsaw structure, every room has randomized walls and...
DnT Pillager Outpost Overhaul
Standalone split version of the Pillager Outpost Overhaul from Dungeons and Taverns
DnT Swamp Hut Overhaul
This Splinter Standalone version of Dungeons and Tavern adds the Swamp Hut rework.
DnT Woodland Mansion Overhaul
This Mod Overhauls the Woodland Mansion with 184 different rooms and 8 type of rooms. adding a basement layer and a road...
Do a Barrel Roll
Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.
Double Doors
🚪 Multiple identical double doors, trapdoors and fence gates can be opened simultaneously.
Dungeons and Taverns
an Vanilla styled structure mod
Dungeons and Taverns Mineshaft Overhaul
A Structure Datapack Overhauling and Replacing the Vanilla Mineshaft, Mesa Mineshaft and adding 4 New rare Mineshafts to...
Dungeons and Taverns Stronghold Overhaul LITE edition
Retired, we decided to retire this project. We wherent happy with the main DnT Stronghold overhaul but the v3 version of...
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
e4mc
Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Easy Anvils
Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.
Easy Magic
Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.
Enchanting Infuser
An all-new enchanting table for choosing your enchantments at fair prices without the randomness.
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
EnchantmentLevelBreak
Break through your enchantment level cap
Enhanced Movement [ Fabric / NeoForge ]
Enhanced Movement enabled double jumps and directional dashing
EnhancedVisuals
Feel the pain!
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Euphoria Patches
Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.
Expanded Axe Enchanting
This mod allows you to use Fire Aspect, Knockback, Looting, Impaling, Density, Breach, and Wind Burst on an axe.
Expanded Trident Enchanting
This mod allows you to use Fire Aspect, Knockback, Looting, Density, Breach, Wind Burst, and all other sword enchantment...
Explorify – Dungeons & Structures
A simplistic, vanilla-friendly collection of new structures.
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Falling Leaves (Fabric)
Makes leaf particles fall from leaf blocks
Farmer's Delight Refabricated
Modern Fabric port of the cooking and farming mod, "Farmer's Delight"
Fast Async World Save[Forge/Fabric]
Prevent lag-spikes and data loss during intermittent world saves
FerriteCore (Fabric)
Memory usage optimizations
Fire Aspect Torch
Hitting Players and Entities with a Torch causes them to burn and torches can lit campfires/candles.
fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]
A mod that fixes memory leaks on the client
Forge Config API Port
NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.
Friends&Foes (Fabric/Quilt)
Adds outvoted and forgotten mobs from the mob vote, expanding on their original concepts and adding new vanilla-like fea...
FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)
Adds many essential utility commands for servers
FTB Library (Fabric)
Common code for all GUI stuff in FTB Mods. Component/layer based GUI creation. Used by mods such as FTB Chunks, FTB Ques...
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Geophilic – Vanilla Biome Overhauls
A subtle-ish overhaul of vanilla Overworld biomes! Reworked!
Gero's Backpacks!
Dyeable and upgradeable vanila-friendly backpacks!
Get It Together, Drops!
Adds tags and configuration options for defining how dropped items should combine.
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Gnetum
Distribute HUD updates over multiple frames to improve performance
Hang Glider
Soar through the skies and explore the world's beauty with your brand-new hang glider!
Homesteads - Villager Expansion & New Professions
Homesteads is for the villagers who would prefer to forge their own path in the wilds. This mod adds 5 new Villagers, th...
Illager Invasion
The illagers are back! Be ready to fight new foes. A port of Illager Expansion.
Illager Warship
Adds a big illager warship to the oceans
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Immersive Optimization
A lightweight entity-tick-scheduler for doubling your TPS.
Improved Cutter
Cut glass, stone, wood, copper and more easily with the cutter - Get heads from any blocks or items
Inventory Essentials
The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!
Iris Shaders
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders
Iron Chests - Fabric
The Iron Chests Mod for newer versions of Fabric
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
JamLib
The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods
JourneyMap
Real-time map used for mapping in-game or your browser as you explore.
Just Enough Backups (JEB)
Just Enough Backups is a Fabric mod that adds server-side world backups with a usable in-game workflow.
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
Just Zoom
Lots of new features and improvements for the Spyglass, plus a standalone zooming mode!
JustHammers
Adds hammers to the game that are able to mine in a 3x3, 3x3x3, 5x5x1, 5x5x3 and finally a 5x5x5! They're pretty awesome...
Kinetic Minecart
This mod increases damage to moving minecarts; the faster they move, the higher the damage, with virtually no damage lim...
KleeSlabs
Break only the half of a double slab that you're looking at.
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
Ksyxis
Speed up your world loading by removing unneeded chunks.
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
Leaves Be Gone
Quick leaf decay from cutting down trees. Built for fast performance and mod compat!
Let Me Despawn
Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules.
Lios Hobbit Hill Village
Adds a cozy, hidden hill village with a grassy rooftop and expansive underground homes
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
Loot Integrations
Allows loot from loottables to be integrated into other lootables, inherently adds better dungeon loot to a few structur...
Loot Integrations: Dungeons and Taverns
Adds better loot to Dungeons and Taverns chests including modded loot
Loot Integrations: When Dungeons Arise & Co
Adds better loot to When Dungeons Arise chests, including modded loot
Lootr (Fabric)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
M.R.U
A library mod used by Cassian and IMB11's mods to function.
Macaw's Roofs
Build roofs with actual roofs instead of stairs!
MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
Melody
OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.
Memory Settings[Neo/Forge/Fabric]
Startup warning to configure the proper amount of ram/memory for java, prevents micro stuttering/freezing problems.
Merge Enchantments
merge the enchants that could not be combined like Silk Touch with Fortune, Infinity with Mending, Frost Walker with Dep...
MES - Moog's End Structures
Lots of Vanilla styled structures to fill up the end dimension with life!
Millager (Village Defenders)
Millager arms the villager side with a standing military of specialised infantry, mounted cavalry, summoners, and constr...
MNS - Moog's Nether Structures
loads of structures made with vanilla blocks and entities bringing life to your world! Discover loot, enemies, & more al...
Mo Glass
Minecraft mod that adds glass stairs and glass slabs. They look great in any build and connect seamlessly with vanilla g...
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
ModernFix-mVUS
A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.
MonoLib
A non-invasive library mod for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.
Moog's Structure Lib (moogs_structures)
This is a library mod for the Moogs Structure series
More Barrel Variants
Barrels for every kind of wood
More Villagers [Fabric]
Adds new villager jobs, with unique trades, workstations, and advancements!
MoreCulling
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
MVS - Moog's Voyager Structures
160+ structures made with vanilla blocks and entities bringing life to your world! Discover loot, enemies, & villagers a...
Nanite Library
Bespoke library mod for the mods in the Nanite family
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
OpenBlocks Elevator
Port of OpenBlocks Elevator.
Overflowing Bars
Expand health, armor and armor toughness bars beyond vanilla. Nice and compact without confusing colors.
oωo (owo-lib)
A general utility, GUI and config library for modding on Fabric and Quilt
Packet Fixer
A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.
Particle Core
Particle optimizations: Culling, rendering optimizations, configurable particle-type-specific spawn reduction, and potio...
Particular ✨ Reforged
Particular is a mod that enhances Minecraft's ambience with many hand-crafted visual effects. Forge Port !
Pick Up Notifier
Be notified about all the things you've just collected.
Played
Played is a lightweight Fabric mod that tracks local playtime for singleplayer worlds and multiplayer servers, with a to...
Polymer
Library for creating better server side content!
Presence Footsteps
An overly complicated sound mod
Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
Puddles & Floods
Adds detailed puddles and allows rivers to visually flood their banks
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
RightClickHarvest
Allows you to harvest crops by right clicking
Rosetta
A library mod for onboarding players to your mod.
ScalableLux
A Fabric mod based on Starlight that improves the performance of light updates in Minecraft.
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Server Performance - Smooth Chunk Save[Forge/Fabric]
Enables lag-free continuous chunk saving, increasing server TPS
ServerCore
A mod that aims to optimize the minecraft server.
Shogi
Rule-based, contextually dynamic configuration options for supported mods.
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
Skin Layers 3D
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
Snow Under Trees (Fabric)
1.19+ continuation of Snow Under Trees (Fabric)
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
Solas Shader
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
Sounds
Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
Squat Grow (Shift / Twerk to grow plants)
Squat for growth (Shift / Twerk to grow plants)
Stoneworks
Vanilla stone types in plenty of variations for all your building needs.
Swift Flight
Speed enchantment for happy ghast harnesses to increase flight speed
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
TerraBlender (Fabric)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Text Placeholder API
Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.
The Mountain Piercer
Adds drills of varying efficiency, with a chain of crafting recipes. Now you can dig the Nether with your hands on your...
Towns and Towers
Spice up your world with new villages, pillager outposts, and even new ships!
Trade Cycling
Refresh villager trades without needing to break workstations.
Trading Post
Rule the village! Trade with every villager at once!
TrashSlot
Adds a draggable trash slot to all inventory screens. Press T to toggle.
Traveler's Backpack [Fabric]
Unique and upgradeable backpacks with customisation, Trinkets integration and more!
Underground Villages
Adds underground villages to your world
Underground Villages, Stoneholm (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
((✓ Forge, ✓ Neoforge and ✓ fabric ) Stoneholm is a Forge & Fabric mod adds underground villages to the world. Inspired...
Underlay
Place any block (such as carpets) inside anything!
Underwater Village - Oceanic Structures
Discover a lot of new oceanic structures!
Universal Graves
Customisable grave mod for Fabric!
Villager Names
🧑🌾 Gives all villager entities a default or custom name to liven up the world.
Visual Workbench
Items stay inside of crafting tables and are also rendered on top. It's really fancy!
Waystones
Teleport from waystone to waystone or craft magical scrolls to warp.
Weapons Expanded
This mod adds new weapons, enchantments, effects, advancements, and more.
Witch Girl 🧹
This texture makes the Minecraft witch look more attractive.
YDM's Weapon Master
With this Mod your Hotbar items will be visible on your Character.
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.