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lestx's Barely Vanilla

Modpack

lestx's Barely Vanilla preserves core vanilla gameplay while adding subtle visual polish, QoL conveniences and performance optimizations. Client & Server

Type

Modpack

Modrinth Downloads

358

Modrinth ID

4X3Bub2Y

Last Updated

Aug 29, 2026

Description

lestx's Barely Vanilla -- Barely Changed. Sharply Polished.

lestx's Barely Vanilla keeps Minecraft feeling like Minecraft. The goal is simple: preserve vanilla mechanics and balance while giving players a slightly cleaner look, smoother performance, and a handful of non-intrusive quality-of-life improvements. By design, this pack is conservative, with mostly clientside visual/animation/resource tweaks, QoL ergonomics, and performance tooling. This pack is intended to be installed on both client and server for the best, most consistent experience because a few bundled mods provide additional behavior when installed server-side.

What this pack does

  • Keeps vanilla gameplay intact: no added biomes, major systems, or balance changes.

  • Subtly improves visuals: Clean item and entity textures, gentle glows, nicer leaves and armor trim visuals, improved animations — all while retaining the vanilla art style.

  • Makes play more ergonomic, including useful conveniences such as quick recipe lookup, smoother inventory handling, right-click crop harvest, centered crosshair, and clearer tooltips.

  • Boosts performance. Modern Fabric optimizers reduce the rendering/tick load and memory pressure to make it smoother on low–mid hardware.

  • Client & server aware. Some features are purely clientside (visuals/animations); others require server presence for correct behaviour — so install on both sides where possible.

Key highlights

  • Performance gains from Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, Entity Culling, Dynamic FPS, and several targeted optimizers.

  • OptiFine-parity presentation - custom entity models, custom item textures, conditional textures, animation reworks - implemented via Fabric mods so resourcepacks can do modern visual tricks without OptiFine.

  • QoL that doesn't change progression: JEI, MouseTweaks, RightClickHarvest, InvMove, ToolTipFix, and related small helpers.

  • Polished: Glowing Nether portals, item enchantment glints, armor trim material, fancy leaves, light dynamics.

Who this is for

  • Players who want a vanilla experience but with better FPS and tasteful visual polish.

  • Hosts looking for a lightweight, consistent visual uplift for players, without changing server rules.

  • People who prefer conservative packs — minimal gameplay risk, maximal playability.

Credits & notes

Every mod and resourcepack is the work of its original author. A full credits.txt is included in the pack with links and license information The pack is intentionally conservative — if you want radical gameplay changes, this is not that pack.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

1.21.1 1.21.8 1.21.11 26.2

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Mod 537,575,288
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Mod 401,175,613
Collective

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Mod 495,982,222
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Mod 385,658,206
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A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs

Mod 180,441,277
FerriteCore

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Memory usage optimizations

Mod 153,841,756
[ETF] Entity Texture Features

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Mod 110,745,689
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Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!

Mod 130,757,195
Crash Assistant

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Mod 88,231,551
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Mod 116,505,158
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Mod 179,504,515
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Cristel Lib

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Mod 119,068,102
NetherPortalFix

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Mod 187,482,806
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An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.

Mod 227,691,344
oωo (owo-lib)

oωo (owo-lib)

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Towns and Towers

Towns and Towers

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Mod 119,505,846
Forge Config API Port

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Mod 148,017,630
Mod Menu

Mod Menu

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Mod 229,006,698
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Fabric Language Kotlin

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Mod 137,601,798
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BaguetteLib

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BetterF3

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Mod 111,972,375
Text Placeholder API

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Mod 66,693,852
Fresh Animations

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Baby Animals and Rabbit model Backport

Baby Animals and Rabbit model Backport

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Resource Pack 23,361
Punchy!

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Various first person animations!

Mod 5,089,929
PneumonoCore

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Mod 2,481,129
Dynamic FPS

Dynamic FPS

Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background

Mod 119,167,432
Cool Rain

Cool Rain

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Mod 7,655,521
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Sparse Structures

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Mod 38,521,914
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Leaves Be Gone

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Mod 71,547,818
M.R.U

M.R.U

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Mod 52,289,958
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Fresh Animations: Player Extension

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Resource Pack 4,226,099
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Mod 34,166,614
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LambDynamicLights

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Mod 104,339,607
Particle Rain

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Visual: Armor Trims

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Resource Pack 3,885,756
Theone's Eating Animation Pack

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e4mc

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Mod 47,513,440
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Mod 32,962,574
Pufferfish's Biome Dither

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Mod 679,564
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Mod 35,400,975
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Mod 156,518
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Shader 243,485,103
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Mod 16,385,654
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Enchanter Fix

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Allows players to decorate their enchanting table setup by fixing the "enchantment power transmitter" block tag.

Mod 2,781,112
MaLiLib

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No Resource Pack Warnings

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Mod 16,177,733
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Soul fire'd

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Mod 12,209,148
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Spyglass Improvements: Zoom, Quick Access... [Fabric/NeoForge]

Enhance Minecraft's Spyglass with adjustable zoom, quick access and various spyglass overlays. Versions for Fabric and F...

Mod 23,331,660
Locator Lodestones

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Adds Lodestones to the Player Locator Bar

Mod 1,391,689
Axolotl Buckets

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Show the color and age of axolotls when in buckets.

Mod 1,841,455
Pyrotechnic Elytra

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Create a show everywhere you fly!

Mod 3,436,419
InvMove

InvMove

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Mod 23,485,838
Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]

Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]

What's in my shulker box?

Mod 57,980,856
Void Fog

Void Fog

Brings back the void fog that was removed in Minecraft 1.8

Mod 9,248,363
Drip Sounds

Drip Sounds

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Mod 12,452,159
Fancy Toasts | Better Advancements

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Mod 9,330,668
Polytone

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Custom Block Sounds, Colors, Lightmaps, Colormaps, Post Shaders, Custom Item Models, Biome Variant Textures, Gui modifi...

Mod 27,765,323
SmoothTextureFix

SmoothTextureFix

Pixels were made to be crisp and clean! Fixes texture sampling introduced in 1.21.11+

Mod 50,410
Fishing Frontier

Fishing Frontier

A reworked fishing loot table system in Minecraft, with a progression system, custom enchantments for new mechanics, and...

Mod 70,193
Smooth Bow Animations

Smooth Bow Animations

Makes the Bow and Crossbow loading Animation more smooth by adding more frames

Resource Pack 36,330
Underground Beacons

Underground Beacons

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Mod 764,352
LibJF

LibJF

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Mod 20,234,666
Respackopts

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Mod 15,069,804
Raised

Raised

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Mod 8,944,509
TLib

TLib

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Mod 2,961,603
NBT Autocomplete

NBT Autocomplete

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Mod 7,831,994
Smooth Swapping

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Moves items smoothly in inventories

Mod 14,993,619
Fishing Rod Fix

Fishing Rod Fix

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Mod 398,300
Leaves Us In Peace

Leaves Us In Peace

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Mod 514,704
Explosive Enhancement

Explosive Enhancement

Makes the explosion animation look cooler.

Mod 8,091,584
Text Formatting Everywhere

Text Formatting Everywhere

Brings back the ability to use Minecraft's old formatting system.

Mod 1,462,693
Status Effect Bars

Status Effect Bars

Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.

Mod 11,353,800
Better Block Entities

Better Block Entities

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Mod 10,874,538
Hold My Items

Hold My Items

Make your hands visible in first person!

Mod 6,804,460
Naturally Trimmed

Naturally Trimmed

Minecraft mod that applies armor trims to naturally generated armor and equipment from mobs, loot tables and trades

Mod 3,370,079
Dark Loading Screen

Dark Loading Screen

Makes the loading screen darker

Mod 8,581,164
LAN World Plug-n-Play

LAN World Plug-n-Play

mcwifipnp

Mod 10,204,390
Shine

Shine

Adds selective bloom to Minecraft.

Mod 663,990
Glowy Nether Portals

Glowy Nether Portals

Gives nether portals of any size a bright border all around, while keeping the vanilla look.

Resource Pack 487,247
Smooth Skies

Smooth Skies

Smooths out the skybox colors on far render distances.

Mod 2,575,452
Superflat World No Slimes

Superflat World No Slimes

🙅 Removes those pesky slimes when you're trying to be creative in a superflat world.

Mod 6,466,161
Enderscape

Enderscape

Total overhaul of The End with new generation, biomes, mobs, and other features.

Mod 2,810,222
Elytra Physics

Elytra Physics

A simple mod that adds physics when walking around with the elytra

Mod 4,690,520
ItemSwapper

ItemSwapper

Inventory update concept for hotswapping items.

Mod 2,864,746
Centered Crosshair

Centered Crosshair

Centers the crosshair to be perfectly in the middle of the screen

Mod 1,959,966
Fish No Stuck

Fish No Stuck

A small mod that fixes fish stop moving entirely (MC-182763)

Mod 213,526
Blocky Bubbles

Blocky Bubbles

Ports the Fast Bubbles setting from Bedrock Edition!

Mod 241,293
Interdimensional Map Markers

Interdimensional Map Markers

Makes maps show your location even when in other dimensions

Mod 125,816
Title Fixer

Title Fixer

Makes the in-game HUD title fit the screen at all times.

Mod 4,377,905
NoNarrator

NoNarrator

A simple mod that disables the narrator feature in Minecraft.

Mod 184,279
Golden Dandelion Backport

Golden Dandelion Backport

Adds the Golden Dandelion to earlier versions of the game

Mod 5,682
Alternative Rain Sounds

Alternative Rain Sounds

New sounds for rain and thunder

Resource Pack 563,865
Silk Touch Budding Amethyst [PurpurPack]

Silk Touch Budding Amethyst [PurpurPack]

Budding amethyst blocks now drop when mined with silk touch

Mod 99,780
Sunbathing Godrays

Sunbathing Godrays

Adds godrays to Minecraft! requires polytone

Resource Pack 517,778
Os' Shulkers

Os' Shulkers

Give each color of shulker a unique pattern upon dying it to identify it even easier.

Resource Pack 116,977
Anti-Smooth

Anti-Smooth

Makes entity movements more responsive

Mod 56,821
Auto Map Update

Auto Map Update

Auto Map Update is a mod to make your map have all the new building you built after creating a map

Mod 4,751
Name Tag Backport

Name Tag Backport

Backports the new name tag recipe

Mod 38,553
Nicer Portals

Nicer Portals

Various small improvements to portals.

Mod 208,848
BARE SKIES. Bare Bones' sky

BARE SKIES. Bare Bones' sky

Brings back the iconic Bare Bones skies with fully renewed sky textures, restoring the vibrant and cinematic atmosphere...

Resource Pack 5,726
1.21.6 Recipes Backport

1.21.6 Recipes Backport

A Datapack that backports the bundle, saddle and lodestone crafting recipes.

Mod 14,516
Os' Shimmering Ores

Os' Shimmering Ores

Emissive and non-emissive options available. Emissive version requires Optifine or McMeta Emissive Textures. Make your...

Resource Pack 31,374
Status Effect Fix

Status Effect Fix

Make status effect levels higher than 9 show up in the inventory!

Mod 2,076
Replant Swamp Trees

Replant Swamp Trees

Can replant swamp trees using oak saplings in swamp biomes.

Mod 195,264
Treasure Map Coordinates

Treasure Map Coordinates

This mod gives you coordinates of the structure that is on the treasure map that you are holding

Mod 5,513
lestx's Standable Striders

lestx's Standable Striders

A small Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.11 that lets adult Striders work as stable, standable platforms when a player stan...

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lestx's Creeper Redesign

lestx's Creeper Redesign

Vanilla-style creeper redesign featuring smoother and softer colors.

Resource Pack 294
Rustic Variance

Rustic Variance

Give your builds a rustic makeover with Rustic Variance, featuring unique, custom textures for every terracotta block.

Resource Pack 629
lestx's Rarity Keep

lestx's Rarity Keep

Keep only what matters when you die.

Mod 94

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