Ultimate PBR Essentials
ModpackEnhanced visuals with PBR, POM, colormap support, and legacy OptiFine features.
Type
Modpack
Modrinth Downloads
11,017
Modrinth ID
51lrV0sM
Last Updated
Jul 25, 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
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Connected Textures:
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Seamless glass, bookshelves, and other blocks using Continuity.
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Dynamic Lighting:
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Carry torches that illuminate surroundings using Sodium Dynamic Lights
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Colormap Support
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Using Polytone for legacy Optifine colormap, however compatibility with some older resource packs may not work.
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Custom Splash Screen
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Using Puzzle
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Support for Entities
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Using EMF and ETF
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Performance Enhancements:
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Optimize FPS without sacrificing quality, better fps in memory-hungry biomes Mods used:
- Sodium
- BetterGrassify
- Cull Leaves
- ClLumps
- Dynamic FPS
- Entity Culling
- Enhanced Block Entities
- Ferrite Core
- ModernFix
- Lithium
- ImmediatelyFast
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Controller Support
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Using Controlify
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Zoom Options
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Using Zoomify
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Gameplay & Graphical Improvements
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Not Enough Animations
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Model Gap Fix
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3D Skin Layers
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Better Third Person
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Capes
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Optimum Realism
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Ambient Sounds
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Remove Loading Screen
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Shader Compatibility
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Using Iris
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Shaders themselves are not included, however pre-made configuration files for balanced performance and quality have been provided for some shaders.
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Other Minor Enhancements
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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.
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Contained Mods (53)
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide Tiles/Entities that are not visible
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
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!
Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
CreativeCore
a core mod
Crash Assistant
Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
AmbientSounds 6
#listentonature
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.
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Terralith
A 1.18+ overworld expansion for Fabric and Forge, with tons of new biomes and caves!
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
Zoomify
A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
MoreCulling
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
e4mc
Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Paginated Advancements & Custom Frames
Better advancements screen
Debugify
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
Cubes Without Borders
A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.
Photon Shader
A gameplay-focused shader pack with a semi-realistic style
Ixeris
Buffered raw input and threaded event polling
Language Reload
Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages
More Chat History
Increases the size of the chat history.
Skyboxify
A skybox mod that allows you to use OptiFine skies in Fabric 1.21+
Better Mount HUD
Improves the ingame HUD while riding a mount
Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks
Reintroduces vanilla-like smooth lighting to non-full blocks (e.g. dirt paths and how they have dark shading when direct...
Main Menu Credits
Adds a way of adding information to the user's title screen.
Config Manager
A minecraft mod that allows modpack developers to ship configuration file in the most user-friendly way possible
BetterGrassify
Gamers can finally touch grass!? OptiFine's Fancy and Fast better grass implemented on Fabric and NeoForge!
Puzzle
Adds resourcepack features and a GUI to more conveniently configure OptiFine alternatives.
Cape Provider
Provides you with capes! You can choose from various providers or add your own
OptiGUI
Blazing fast custom GUI textures on Fabric and Quilt with built-in OptiFine custom GUI resource pack support
Remove Reloading Screen
Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!
FastQuit
Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background!
Polytone
Custom Block Sounds, Colors, Lightmaps, Colormaps, Post Shaders, Custom Item Models, Biome Variant Textures, Gui modifi...
Kappa Shader
A high-quality realistic, yet also somewhat stylized shaderpack.
Fabrishot
Take large screenshots because why not
Animatica Refabricated
A fork of Animatica implementing the OptiFine/MCPatcher animated texture format.
Make it Grassy
An extensive addon for Optimum Realism
Optimum Realism
Realistic 64x Minecraft pack with PBR, POM, and custom models with 3M+ downloads across platforms