Neon
ModpackA lightweight and extremely optimized modpack for vanilla minecraft
Type
Modpack
Modrinth Downloads
4,605
Modrinth ID
ifVzzDmW
Last Updated
Jul 29, 2026
Description
Neon
Stable 1.21.1 neoforged (LTS) 1.20.1 1.20.4
Unstable 1.21.4 1.21.5 1.21.8 1.21.11 26.2
About
A lightweight modpack for vanilla minecraft, with some nice tweaks and seriously raised performance. Made to play on vanilla (no mods) servers or you can create your own modpack based on this.
Steam deck and controllers compatibility
- Using Controlify
- Controlify comes with a huge range of settings to fine-tune each of your controllers individually, including vibration strength, every single controller input bind (no hardcoding!) and more.
Perfomance
We recommend allocate minimum 3GB of ram for singleplayer game and 1GB for playing on server. And dual core cpu is strongly recommended.
What exactly does this modpack include?
- Automatic screenshot copy
- Shulker box tooltip
- Immediate mode rendering optimization
- Cleaner F3
- Rendering optimization
- FPS counter
- Steam Deck support (and controllers)
- Saturation display
- Chunk fade animation
- Noise optimization
- Fixes GPU-related memory leaks
- Fixes random memory leaks for both the client and server
- Advanced blur
- Entity culling system
- Fast language loader
- Enhance block entities
- Improve the UI and UX for the advancements system
- Adds marking system (only if server support this)
- Fixes gaps in models
- Fixes various Minecraft bugs
- Disables telemetry
- Adds more advanced online mod configuration screen
- Random Generator optimization
- Adds Concurrent Chunk Management Engine
- Improves the visualization of specific blocks
- XP orbs optimization
- Advanced configuration for falling leaves effect
- Shader pack loader (and some shaders included)
- Dynamic crosshair
- Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons
- Solves various problems with packets
- Adds a customizable (bedrock like) preview of yourself
- Minecraft networking stack optimization
- Game logic optimization
- More detail about armor in Armor bar
- Automatic log cleaner
- Mod menu
- Improves the statistics screen
- Allows you to easily type emoji and emoticons in game
- Makes chat unreportable
- Redstone dust optimization
- Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles
- Improve footsteps sounds
- Memory usage optimizations
- Improve server performance at high playercounts
- Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
- Adds way to log into your account in game
- Render the player skin layer in 3d
- Connected textures support
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Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
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Puzzles Lib
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Resourceful Lib
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Iris Shaders
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FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
3D Skin Layers
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
CreativeCore
a core mod
Sound Physics Remastered
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Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
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Better Advancements
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Packet Fixer
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Prickle
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MidnightLib
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Pick Up Notifier
Be notified about all the things you've just collected.
Item Highlighter [Neo/Forge]
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Cherished Worlds
Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.
Alternate Current
An efficient and non-locational redstone dust implementation
JamLib
The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods
EMI
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Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
Rethinking Voxels
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Ping Wheel
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Dynamic Crosshair
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Model Gap Fix
Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models
Blur+
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Better Statistics Screen
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Bookshelf
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Max Health Fix
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Structure Layout Optimizer
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Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (NeoForge)
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Visuality: Reforged
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ServerCore
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Falling Leaves
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Traveler's Titles (Forge/NeoForge)
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Snow Under Trees
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Visuality
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MixinTrace Reforged
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Krypton Reno
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I'm Fast
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Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]
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lazy-language-loader (Fabric)
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MixinTrace
Adds a list of mixins in the stack trace to crash reports
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Main Menu Credits
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Noisium (archived)
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Log Cleaner
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ScalableLux
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VanillAA
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Horseman
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Krypton
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Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]
What's in my shulker box?
Enchanted Book Redesign
Better identify enchanted books
Fancy Toasts | Better Advancements
Overhauls the old advancement toast system, focusing on the presentation of advancements
Better Tooltips
Highly configurable tooltip rendering, so you can always read them!
Sort It Out!
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Better ModList
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Auth Me
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Chunks fade in
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Get a customizable (bedrock like) preview of yourself
Custom Item Despawn Duration
Configure how long items will last before despawning
ToadLib
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Borderless Window
Enables the fullscreen mode 'Borderless Window', which replaces the standard Minecraft fullscreen
authlogic
simple and effective hybrid authentication solution for modded minecraft servers.
Villa la Revolution
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Revamped Shipwrecks
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Log Cleaner Multi Loader
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Epoch
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