Vanilla Vistas
ModpackA vanilla+ modpack dedicated to overhauling minecraft's immersion and visuals without using shaders.
Description

Vanilla Vistas
Vanilla Vistas is a stylized overhaul to vanilla minecraft, attempting to make the game as immersive and cinematic as possible without any shaders. This pack completely overhauls the game's visuals, audio, animations, and ingame UI.
Features
- Enhanced overworld visuals
- Prettier foliage
- Godrays and atmospheric fog
- Better world generation
- Improved player and mob animations
- Improved first-person animations and combat
- Smooth animated UI
- QoL improvements
- (Almost) Full controller support
- Steam deck support (Somewhat slow worldgen, but fps smooths out over time)
- Voice chat and improved third-person interactions
- Ambient sounds and effects
...And more!
Notes
Though it may look like it, Vanilla Vistas is NOT client-side. The pack relies on server side mods for terrain generation, misc improvements, and feature backports.
I recommend you set your modpack's java memory to at least 4096, or you might have performance problems.
This modpack is incompatible with sodium/iris, and will break if they are installed!
This modpack relies on many curated resource packs to function. To preserve the experience, these packs are forced enabled, however if you would like to manually change them disable the mod Global Packs.
Controller support is only configured for xbox controllers and steam deck by default in this release, but more controller types may come with time. Some controller types should work without configuration. To configure a controller, you'll need to bind the Change Block Shape keybind in controlify settings. My default bind for it is the right face button (B on an xbox controller)
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