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.
Type
Modpack
CurseForge Downloads
495
CurseForge ID
1546956
Last Updated
Jul 17, 2026
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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Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
JourneyMap
Real-time map used for mapping in-game or your browser as you explore.
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Waystones
Teleport back to activated waystones. For Survival, Adventure or Servers.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide Tiles/Entities that are not visible
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Melody
OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
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!
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Iris Shaders
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders
CreativeCore
a core mod
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
AttributeFix
Removes arbitrary limits on Minecraft's attribute system.
Packet Fixer
A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.
Connectivity
Fix Login timeouts, Packet sizes errors, Payloads errors, ghostblocks and more.
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Euphoria Patches
Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.
Crash Assistant
Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
Server Performance - Smooth Chunk Save[Forge/Fabric]
Enables lag-free continuous chunk saving, increasing server TPS
Configured
Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!
5555ff-lib
Library used in Jodek's projects
Cristel Lib
A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when travelling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
oωo (owo-lib)
A general utility, GUI and config library for modding on Fabric and Quilt
AmbientSounds 6
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Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Skin Layers 3D
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
Biomes O' Plenty
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
TrashSlot
Adds a trash slot to the inventory screen that allows deletion of unwanted items.
Towns and Towers
Spice up your world with new villages, pillager outposts, and even new ships!
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.
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Just Zoom
Zoom by pressing a hotkey and adjust the zoom factor with your mouse wheel!
OpenBlocks Elevator
Port of OpenBlocks Elevator.
FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)
Adds many essential utility commands for servers
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
FerriteCore (Fabric)
Memory usage optimizations
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
Visual Workbench
Items stay inside of crafting tables and are also rendered on top. It's really fancy!
Fast Async World Save[Forge/Fabric]
Prevent lag-spikes and data loss during intermittent world saves
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
Almanac Lib
A loader independent library containing shared code reused between mods and a fix for empty nbt issues.
Loot Integrations
Allows loot from loottables to be integrated into other lootables, inherently adds better dungeon loot to a few structur...
Pick Up Notifier
Be notified about all the things you've just collected.
Let Me Despawn
Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules.
Particular ✨ Reforged
Particular is a mod that enhances Minecraft's ambience with many hand-crafted visual effects. Forge Port !
MVS - Moog's Voyager Structures
160+ structures made with vanilla blocks and entities bringing life to your world! Discover loot, enemies, & villagers a...
MES - Moog's End Structures
Lots of Vanilla styled structures to fill up the end dimension with life!
Cherished Worlds
Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.
BaguetteLib
A simple but powerful event library that gives mod developers the control they actually need.
JamLib
The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods
Explorify – Dungeons & Structures
A simplistic, vanilla-friendly collection of new structures.
Memory Settings[Neo/Forge/Fabric]
Startup warning to configure the proper amount of ram/memory for java, prevents micro stuttering/freezing problems.
BetterF3
A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.
Moog's Structure Lib (moogs_structures)
This is a library mod for the Moogs Structure series
Overflowing Bars
Expand health, armor and armor toughness bars beyond vanilla. Nice and compact without confusing colors.
RightClickHarvest
Allows you to harvest crops by right clicking
Macaw's Roofs
Build roofs with actual roofs instead of stairs!
Easy Magic
Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.
Client Crafting
Clientside crafting without network delay
Easy Anvils
Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
Get It Together, Drops!
Adds tags and configuration options for defining how dropped items should combine.
Double Doors
🚪 Multiple identical double doors, trapdoors and fence gates can be opened simultaneously.
Particle Core
Particle optimizations: Culling, rendering optimizations, configurable particle-type-specific spawn reduction, and potio...
MNS - Moog's Nether Structures
loads of structures made with vanilla blocks and entities bringing life to your world! Discover loot, enemies, & more al...
Leaves Be Gone
Quick leaf decay from cutting down trees. Built for fast performance and mod compat!
Trade Cycling
Refresh villager trades without needing to break workstations.
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.
EnhancedVisuals
Feel the pain!
KleeSlabs
Break only the half of a double slab that you're looking at.
Diagonal Fences
Fences connecting diagonally? Wait. That's illegal.
Villager Names
🧑🌾 Gives all villager entities a default or custom name to liven up the world.
MoreCulling
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
Geophilic – Vanilla Biome Overhauls
A subtle-ish overhaul of vanilla Overworld biomes! Reworked!
Trading Post
Rule the village! Trade with every villager at once!
Bridging Mod
Reacharound Placement (Bedrock Bridging) for Forge, Fabric, & Quilt
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
MonoLib
A non-invasive library mod for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.
YDM's Weapon Master
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Deimos Lib
Config and datagen library based on midnight lib
Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod
Massively increase render distance without harming performance.
Diagonal Walls
The missing diagonal blocks are here! After all these years. Finally, you have them all.
e4mc
Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Configured Defaults
Allows for providing defaults for files absent in .minecraft like configs. A quintessential modpack utility.
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
Falling Leaves (Fabric)
Makes leaf particles fall from leaf blocks
Stoneworks
Vanilla stone types in plenty of variations for all your building needs.
Sounds
Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...
Dis-Enchanting Table
Recover enchantments from enchanted weapons or books!
Illager Invasion
The illagers are back! Be ready to fight new foes. A port of Illager Expansion.
Inventory Essentials
The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!
TerraBlender (Fabric)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Cubes Without Borders
A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.
Dark Paintings
Adds new paintings to Minecraft
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...
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...
Gnetum
Distribute HUD updates over multiple frames to improve performance
Immersive Optimization
A lightweight entity-tick-scheduler for doubling your TPS.
Dungeons and Taverns
an Vanilla styled structure mod
Farmer's Delight Refabricated
Modern Fabric port of the cooking and farming mod, "Farmer's Delight"
Bliss Shaders
A well performing fantasy styled shaderpack with emphasis on scene variation and customization.
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Merge Enchantments
merge the enchants that could not be combined like Silk Touch with Fortune, Infinity with Mending, Frost Walker with Dep...
Delete Worlds To Trash
Deleted worlds are gone forever, right? Not anymore! Simply restore them from your recycle bin.
Cut Through
Cleanly swing through transparent blocks like tall grass to hit mobs without breaking said block.
Underlay
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DnT Ancient City Overhaul
Standalone Splinter version of Dungeons and Taverns Ancient City Overhaul
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined
Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Underground Villages
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MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
BSL Shaders
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]
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CICADA
Confusing, Interesting and Considerably Agnostic Development Aid
Friends&Foes (Fabric/Quilt)
Adds outvoted and forgotten mobs from the mob vote, expanding on their original concepts and adding new vanilla-like fea...
Lootr (Fabric)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
Traveler's Backpack [Fabric]
Unique and upgradeable backpacks with customisation, Trinkets integration and more!
Do a Barrel Roll
Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.
Presence Footsteps
An overly complicated sound mod
Squat Grow (Shift / Twerk to grow plants)
Squat for growth (Shift / Twerk to grow plants)
BetterGrassify
Gamers can finally touch grass!? OptiFine's Fancy and Fast better grass implemented on Fabric and NeoForge!
Solas Shader
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
Universal Graves
Customisable grave mod for Fabric!
Cool Rain
Creates ambient sounds for certain blocks during rain
Diagonal Windows
Now windows are connecting diagonally, too?! This is getting out of hand!
Better Climbing
Improves some things related to climbing
Ksyxis
Speed up your world loading by removing unneeded chunks.
Better Client
A client-side mod for a better server experience
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...
Loot Integrations: When Dungeons Arise & Co
Adds better loot to When Dungeons Arise chests, including modded loot
ScalableLux
A Fabric mod based on Starlight that improves the performance of light updates in Minecraft.
Text Placeholder API
Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.
Better Lanterns
Improves lanterns and chains models with an enhanced 3D look for a more immersive experience.
Enchanting Infuser
An all-new enchanting table for choosing your enchantments at fair prices without the randomness.
DnT Pillager Outpost Overhaul
Standalone split version of the Pillager Outpost Overhaul from Dungeons and Taverns
DnT Nether Fortress Overhaul
This Mod Overhauls the Nether Fortress with 1 guaranteed spawner, the fortress inside hallways having decoration and bla...
DnT Jungle Temple Overhaul
Overhauls Jungle Temples with 4 Variants using new loot tables alongside the Vanilla Loot Table and can have archeology...
DnT Ocean Monument Overhaul
This Mod/Datapack Overhauls the Ocean Monument, turning it into a jigsaw structure, every room has randomized walls and...
Hang Glider
Soar through the skies and explore the world's beauty with your brand-new hang glider!
Underwater Village - Oceanic Structures
Discover a lot of new oceanic structures!
Puddles & Floods
Adds detailed puddles and allows rivers to visually flood their banks
Illager Warship
Adds a big illager warship to the oceans
More Barrel Variants
Barrels for every kind of wood
Dungeons and Taverns Stronghold Overhaul LITE edition
Server and low end PC friendly version of DnT Stronghold Overhaul
Polymer
Library for creating better server side content!
DnT Desert Temple Overhaul
Overhauls Desert Temples with 4 Variants using new loot tables alongside the Vanilla Loot Tables. The chests at the TNT...
ModernFix-mVUS
A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.
Better Swords Trims
Adds new smithing trims specially designed to personalize and enhance your swords and armor. Discover powerful combat ef...
Better Spawner Control
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Better Clouds
Beautiful clouds in touch with the vanilla style
Snow Under Trees (Fabric)
1.19+ continuation of Snow Under Trees (Fabric)
Lios Hobbit Hill Village
Adds a cozy, hidden hill village with a grassy rooftop and expansive underground homes
Loot Integrations: Dungeons and Taverns
Adds better loot to Dungeons and Taverns chests including modded loot
Better Fps - Render Distance[Fabric]
Better fps for 1.16+ minecraft, improved render distances
Better Block Entities
A Minecraft optimization mod for Fabric/Sodium that improves FPS / Block Entity Rendering by implementing a Hybrid Rende...
Underground Villages, Stoneholm (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
((✓ Forge, ✓ Neoforge and ✓ fabric ) Stoneholm is a Forge & Fabric mod adds underground villages to the world. Inspired...
Distant Friends
Player like mobs that look at you from a distance
Mo Glass
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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...
More Villagers [Fabric]
Adds new villager jobs, with unique trades, workstations, and advancements!
Craft Slabs Back into Blocks [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]
A fully configurable mod that lets you craft slabs back into blocks
Better Library
This is just a simple lib for config, 1st join message and live message
Chest Search Bar
Adds a search bar to containers
EnchantmentLevelBreak
Break through your enchantment level cap
Shogi
Rule-based, contextually dynamic configuration options for supported mods.
Gero's Backpacks!
Dyeable and upgradeable vanila-friendly backpacks!
Weapons Expanded
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Dungeons and Taverns Mineshaft Overhaul
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Expanded Trident Enchanting
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This mod increases damage to moving minecarts; the faster they move, the higher the damage, with virtually no damage lim...
Nanite Library
Bespoke library mod for the mods in the Nanite family
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Expanded Axe Enchanting
This mod allows you to use Fire Aspect, Knockback, Looting, Impaling, Density, Breach, and Wind Burst on an axe.
Iron Chests - Fabric
The Iron Chests Mod for newer versions of Fabric
Improved Cutter
Cut glass, stone, wood, copper and more easily with the cutter - Get heads from any blocks or items
Millager (Village Defenders)
Millager adds an infantry-and-cavalry armed faction to the villager side, with AI formation patrols, raid reinforcement...
Rosetta
A library mod for onboarding players to your mod.
Fire Aspect Torch
Hitting Players and Entities with a Torch causes them to burn.
Better Glass / Clear Glass
Removes the outlines and visual noise from glass!
Just Enough Backups (JEB)
Just Enough Backups is a Fabric mod that adds server-side world backups with a usable in-game workflow.
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...
Enhanced Movement [ Fabric / NeoForge ]
Enhanced Movement enabled double jumps and directional dashing
Diagonal Corners
Tired of seeing corners in blocks like glass panels and iron bars? Well, this is the mod for you!
Swift Flight
Speed enchantment for happy ghast harnesses to increase flight speed