Better Zoom
Modby awesome_hippo
Smoothly zoom with wheel and hotkeys as much as you want, in a simple way with customizations
Type
Mod
CurseForge Downloads
1,122,824
CurseForge ID
Modrinth Downloads
639,913
Modrinth ID
Last Updated
Nov 6, 2026
Description
Better Zoom v2.7, allows you to zoom smoothly with wheel scrolling and hotkeys. It offers a simple and efficent zoom with unique customizations. All of that without any mixin/asm, for a faster loading speed..
The goal of this mod is to offer a simple & suitable zoom with smooth wheel/hotkeys zooming. No fancy or complicated parameters included. The mod offers customizations (see screenshots below) and runs without any mixin or any additional library.
While it's called Better Zoom, it's just meant to be simple, compatible, including all the necessary features with a clean configuration GUI without fancy stuff, in order to offer a good zooming experience!
**The mod is actively maintained and receive frequrent updates on github.
**

Press "c" by default to toggle zoom. (Configurable keybind)
Press "+"/"-" or scroll with wheel to zoom in/out (Configurable)
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Default configuration GUI (Forge 1.20.1 reference):
(open with 'V' keybind by default) and at mods/config...)

You can configure:
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"Zoom Increment" - How much zoom it increments per scroll wheel. (useful to zoom/dezoom very quickly)
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"Mouse Sensitivity" - The mouse sensitivity that will be multiplited by when you zoom. (adjust as you need so the camera doesn't move too fast when zooming a lot)
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"Hold to Zoom" - Require to hold the zoom keybind in order to keep zooming
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"Smooth Zoom" - A real Smooth Fade in/out when zooming
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"Auto Adjust" - Adjust the mouse sensitivty automatically according to the zoom level
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"Easing Factor" - Easing factor for the smooth transitions. Lowers = slower/smoother
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"Disable Bobbing while zooming" - Disable the bob biew/bobbing while zooming
(Tooltips are avilable ingame for more informations)
Custom keybinds:
Translations are available for French and English. Feel free to suggest better ond, or add translations on github!
Issues for suggestions/bugs: https://github.com/AwesomeHippo/BetterZoom/issues
Feel free to add this in any modpack published on curseforge! This is highly appreciated.
The code is open source : https://github.com/AwesomeHippo/BetterZoom under MIT license and the mod is available on curseforge: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/better-zoom
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