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A lightweight and extremely optimized modpack for vanilla minecraft

Type

Modpack

Modrinth Downloads

6,031

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

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric Neoforge

Game Versions

1.20.1 1.20.4 1.21 1.21.1 1.21.4 1.21.5 1.21.8 1.21.11 26.2

Recommended Gear

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