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Ultimate PBR Essentials

Modpack

Enhanced visuals with PBR, POM, colormap support, and legacy OptiFine features.

Type

Modpack

Modrinth Downloads

11,588

Modrinth ID

51lrV0sM

Last Updated

Aug 29, 2026

Description

Ultimate PBR Essentials

Ultimate PBR Essentials is the modpack for players who want to experience Minecraft with unparalleled visual enhancements while retaining the classic functionality they love. This modpack adds support for POM & PBR texturepack which previously used Optifine's features.

Who Is It For?

If you're looking to play with nearly any newer texture pack, whether it be realistic, vanilla, or one with minor tweaks, most require specific features and mods to provide these features. This modpack allows you to play with them effortlessly and also includes performance enhancements.

Isn't this just another Fabulously Optimized?

While the majority of mods are indeed common, however it does not mainly include visually game-altering mods, which are required/best suited for some PBR texture packs.

Classic OptiFine Features

  • Connected Textures:

  • Seamless glass, bookshelves, and other blocks using Continuity.

  • Dynamic Lighting:

  • Carry torches that illuminate surroundings using Sodium Dynamic Lights

  • Colormap Support

  • Using Polytone for legacy Optifine colormap, however compatibility with some older resource packs may not work.

  • Custom Splash Screen

  • Using Puzzle

  • Support for Entities

  • Using EMF and ETF

  • Performance Enhancements:

  • Optimize FPS without sacrificing quality, better fps in memory-hungry biomes Mods used:

  1. Sodium
  2. BetterGrassify
  3. Cull Leaves
  4. ClLumps
  5. Dynamic FPS
  6. Entity Culling
  7. Enhanced Block Entities
  8. Ferrite Core
  9. ModernFix
  10. Lithium
  11. ImmediatelyFast
  • Controller Support

  • Using Controlify

  • Zoom Options

  • Using Zoomify

  • Gameplay & Graphical Improvements

  • Not Enough Animations

  • Model Gap Fix

  • 3D Skin Layers

  • Better Third Person

  • Capes

  • Optimum Realism

  • Ambient Sounds

  • Remove Loading Screen

  • Shader Compatibility

  • Using Iris

  • Shaders themselves are not included, however pre-made configuration files for balanced performance and quality have been provided for some shaders.

  • Other Minor Enhancements

  • This modpack has libraries that are required by some of the mods mentioned above, and other mods. Some mods may have been added later and may not be mentioned in the list above however they will be suited for the modpack.

Please note that this Modpack is not perfect, and was originally created to make the installation of mods for Optimum Realism texturepack easier and more uniform, however it should cover the mods required for almost all other texture packs that previously used Optifine's feature and are currently in the loop with newer mods. If you have suggestions, please refer to the discord server. This modpack also includes additional files that are not on Modrinth, these files cannot be redistributed or modified.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

1.21.4 1.21.6 26.1.2

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Mod 310,728,634
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Mod 400,319,955
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Mod 494,846,984
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]

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Mod 239,339,910
YetAnotherConfigLib

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Mod 250,031,107
Sodium

Sodium

The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!

Mod 384,607,145
Iris Shaders

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A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs

Mod 179,928,360
FerriteCore

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Memory usage optimizations

Mod 153,474,571
[ETF] Entity Texture Features

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Mod 102,637,146
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Mod 274,946,440
Crash Assistant

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Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.

Mod 87,913,594
Lithostitched

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Mod 116,207,087
No Chat Reports

No Chat Reports

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Mod 179,245,895
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.

Mod 227,185,020
AmbientSounds 6

AmbientSounds 6

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Mod 168,151,304
Forge Config API Port

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Mod 147,716,227
Mod Menu

Mod Menu

Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.

Mod 228,444,034
Reese's Sodium Options

Reese's Sodium Options

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Mod 157,855,717
Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric Language Kotlin

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Mod 205,428,424
Continuity

Continuity

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Mod 137,312,913
Terralith

Terralith

A 1.18+ overworld expansion for Fabric and Forge, with tons of new biomes and caves!

Mod 97,083,474
Sodium Extra

Sodium Extra

Features that shouldn't be in Sodium

Mod 170,611,810
Dynamic FPS

Dynamic FPS

Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background

Mod 118,905,856
Zoomify

Zoomify

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Mod 109,389,399
MoreCulling

MoreCulling

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Mod 94,018,052
LambDynamicLights

LambDynamicLights

The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.

Mod 104,082,088
Tectonic

Tectonic

Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!

Mod 49,538,012
e4mc

e4mc

Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Mod 47,513,440
Paginated Advancements & Custom Frames

Paginated Advancements & Custom Frames

Better advancements screen

Mod 17,768,259
Debugify

Debugify

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Mod 72,928,198
Cubes Without Borders

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Mod 42,963,777
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Photon Shader

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Ixeris

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Mod 19,333,881
Language Reload

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Mod 72,141,191
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More Chat History

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Mod 41,336,938
Skyboxify

Skyboxify

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Mod 16,323,456
Better Mount HUD

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Mod 44,857,539
Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks

Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks

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Mod 23,777,378
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Mod 7,915,398
BetterGrassify

BetterGrassify

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Mod 23,814,035
Puzzle

Puzzle

Adds resourcepack features and a GUI to more conveniently configure OptiFine alternatives.

Mod 48,631,910
Cape Provider

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Mod 5,580,951
OptiGUI

OptiGUI

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Mod 38,822,799
Remove Reloading Screen

Remove Reloading Screen

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Mod 43,549,314
FastQuit

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Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background!

Mod 33,479,657
Polytone

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Mod 27,674,391
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Shader 3,161,979
Fabrishot

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Mod 32,946,824
Animatica Refabricated

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Make it Grassy

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