🌹 Unreal Vanilla

Mojang hire this person! Unreal Vanilla looks like a demo, but you can play it. It features numerous visual and auditory treats plus several quality of life improvements. This modpack does not alter gameplay, altough it does make you drool. Perfect for playing on servers, Unreal Vanilla delivers a perfected base game expereince.

📦 Mod List

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Mod What it does Sodium Modern rendering engine that massively boosts FPS and reduces stuttering. Lithium Optimizes game logic (mob AI, physics, world ticking) with no gameplay changes. FerriteCore Slashes memory usage by deduplicating block state and model data. ImmediatelyFast Speeds up immediate-mode rendering for text, GUIs, and entities. ModernFix Broad collection of fixes for load times, memory, and general performance. BadOptimizations Micro-optimizations for often-overlooked systems like lighting and the sky. Entity Culling Skips rendering entities and block entities you can't actually see. More Culling Culls hidden block faces, leaves, and other geometry for extra FPS. Enhanced Block Entities Renders chests, signs, and bells as regular blocks for a big performance win. Dynamic FPS Lowers FPS when the game is unfocused or minimized. Bobby Caches chunks beyond the server's render distance so you can see further. Distant Horizons Adds Level-of-Detail terrain so distant landscapes render out to the horizon. Mod What it does Iris Shaders Shader pack support, fully compatible with Sodium. Continuity Connected textures via resource packs. LambDynamicLights Held torches, glowing items, and burning mobs emit real light. Better Clouds Visually appealing clouds that put vanilla's flat slabs to shame. Better Snow Coverage Snow layers fill in around fences, plants, and other blocks properly. Particle Rain Replaces flat rain and snow sheets with proper particles. Cool Rain Tones down rain visuals and audio when you're under cover. Explosive Enhancement Cinematic explosion particles, smoke, and shockwaves. Satin Free Wakes Boats and swimming players leave splashes and wakes on the water. Make Bubbles Pop Underwater bubbles pop at the surface with a satisfying effect. FootprintParticle Leaves footprints behind players and mobs on soft ground. Elytra Contrails Mod Streaks trailing from your wingtips while gliding. Elytra Physics Your elytra has cape physics as you walk. Wavey Capes Capes sway and ripple instead of hanging stiff. 3D Skin Layers Renders the outer skin layer in 3D for hats, sleeves, and more. 3D Armor Gives armor pieces more depth and detail in 3D. [EMF] Entity Model Features Custom entity models (OptiFine CEM support) for resource packs. [ETF] Entity Texture Features Random, emissive, and blinking entity textures for resource packs. Tightfire Fire hugs slabs and fences properly instead of floating. Punchy! First-person animations and visible hands holding items. Leawind's Third Person Over-the-shoulder third-person camera with smooth aiming. BoatCam The camera follows the boat's heading while you paddle. Camera Overhaul Makes movement feel more satisfying by tilting and rotating the camera in response to what you're doing — strafing and turning lean the view sideways, jumping and falling shift the pitch, explosions shake the screen, and standing still lets the camera sway gently. Everything is adjustable in-game; set any feature to 0.0 to disable it. Mod What it does Sound Physics Remastered Realistic reverb, echo, and sound occlusion based on your surroundings. AmbientSounds Rich ambient soundscapes for biomes, caves, and weather. Presence Footsteps Footstep sounds that match the block you're walking on and your speed. ImmersiveThunder More varied and realistic thunder rolls during storms. Sounds Adds sounds to actions that are silent in vanilla — item pickups, hotbar scrolling, menus, and more. Logarithmic Volume Control Volume sliders that actually feel linear to your ears. Simple Voice Chat Built-in proximity voice chat with groups, push-to-talk, and more. Simple Voice Chat Group Player Names Shows player names inside voice chat groups. Mod What it does Jade 🔍 Shows info about the block or entity you're looking at. AppleSkin Displays hunger, saturation, and food values in the HUD and tooltips. BetterF3 Cleaner, color-coded, customizable F3 debug screen. Xaero's Minimap Rotating minimap with waypoints, entities, and cave mode. Xaero's World Map Full-screen world map that syncs with the minimap. Health Indicators Floating health bars above mobs and players. Simple Armor Hud Shows equipped armor and its durability on the HUD. FireHud Indicates when you're on fire and how long you'll keep burning. Dynamic Crosshair Crosshair adapts to context — hides, changes shape, or shows interaction hints. Immersive Hotbar Animated hotbar slots and tooltips when swapping, using, or picking up items. Immersive UI Smooth animations and transitions across vanilla menus. Smooth Swapping Items glide between slots instead of teleporting. Smooth Scrolling Smooth, eased scrolling in menus and lists. Item Highlighter Highlights newly picked-up items in your inventory. Chat Animation [Smooth Chat] Chat messages slide in smoothly. Chat Heads Shows player heads next to messages in chat. Blur+ Blurs the world behind GUI screens. Dark Loading Screen Replaces the blinding white loading screen with a dark one. OptiGUI Custom container GUIs via resource packs (OptiFine format). Cursors Extended Minecraft-themed, animated mouse cursors. Mod Menu In-game mod list with config access. Quicker Connect Button Adds a one-click server connect button to the main menu. Quit from Game Menu Adds a Quit button to the pause menu. Smooth Gui GUIs fade up and the background blur eases in when you open a screen instead of snapping into place. Hover Items Items pop out with a clean animation when you hover over them in any container, with an optional bounce. Shadow Drop Adds subtle drop shadows beneath items in GUIs for extra depth — color, opacity, and position are configurable. Mod What it does Inventory Profiles Next Inventory sorting, auto-refill, and one-click move-all. Simple Autoswitch Automatically switches to the best tool for the block. Quick Elytra Hotkey to swap between chestplate and elytra instantly, also swaps automatically when you try to fly. Controlify (Controller support) Full gamepad support with rumble, button glyphs, and menu navigation. CatVision Toggleable night vision — no operator permissions required. I Know How To Play! Removes the vanilla tutorial toasts for good. Cubes Without Borders Borderless fullscreen mode for smooth alt-tabbing. Default Options Ships sensible default settings and keybinds with the pack. Packed Packs Group resource/data packs into profiles with drag-and-drop and multi-select. ViaFabricPlus Join servers running older (or newer) Minecraft versions. CraftPresence Discord Rich Presence showing what you're doing in-game. Blocks Previewer Shows a ghost preview of how a block will be oriented before you place it — like Create's placement preview, but for every block. Great for builders and redstoners. Mod What it does Essential Mod Friends list, direct messaging, cosmetics, and host-your-world multiplayer. Essential Patcher Gets rid of micro-transactions. Mod Required by Fabric API Nearly everything — core Fabric hooks. Fabric Language Kotlin Kotlin-based mods (e.g. Inventory Profiles Next). Architectury API Multi-loader mods. Cloth Config API Config screens for many mods. YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL) Config screens for Controlify and others. MidnightLib Config handling for Midnight-family mods. Balm Blay's mods (e.g. Default Options). CreativeCore AmbientSounds and other CreativeMD mods. Iceberg Grend's mods (Health Indicators family). JamLib Jam Core mods (e.g. Quicker Connect Button). libIPN Inventory Profiles Next. MRU Cassian's mods (Immersive Hotbar, Immersive UI). Perspective API MineBlock's mods. ShatterLib | OctoLib Shattered/Octo mods. UniLib CraftPresence. Text Placeholder API Text formatting and placeholders.

🎨 Resource Packs

Pack What it does Fresh Animations Brings vanilla mobs to life with smooth, expressive idle, walking, and attack animations. Requires EMF/ETF. Fresh Animations: Emissive Add-on that gives Fresh Animations mobs glowing eyes and emissive details. Fresh Animations: Extensions Add-on covering more mobs and variants not included in the base pack. Fresh Animations: Player Extension Add-on that applies Fresh Animations-style movement to the player model. Icon Fresh Replaces the mob icons on Xaero's Minimap and World Map with Fresh Animations-styled portraits. Pack What it does SPBR PBR textures for vanilla 16x blocks — adds real surface depth, parallax, and material properties for shaders. Rainbow Diamond Ores & Ancient Debris Adds a glowing, animated rainbow outline to diamond ore and ancient debris so they're impossible to miss. Minimalist Enchantment Glint Tones the enchantment glint down to a subtle shimmer that doesn't hide item textures. Pack What it does CozyUI+ Clean, subtle high-definition redesign of every vanilla UI element, with support for many client mods. Enchant Icons Displays a small icon for each enchantment in item tooltips, so you can read gear at a glance. Classic Menu Panorama Restores the original pre-1.13 title screen panorama as a full 360° 4K background. Old logo Brings back the classic Minecraft title logo and removes the "Java Edition" subtitle. Swzo's Font! Replaces the default font with a soft, elegant typeface.

🌅 Shaders

Unreal Vanilla ships with two shader packs so you can pick between maximum fidelity and maximum frames. Both load through Iris — press the shader key in-game (default F7) or open Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs to switch.

Shader Style What it does ApexShader 🎬 Cinematic Advanced ray-traced lighting with dynamic weather, multi-layer volumetric clouds, and full post-processing (bloom, depth of field, and more). The "showcase" option — stunning, but demanding. Not as demanding as you'd think though! Stracciatella Shaders 🍦 Vanilla+ Ultra-lightweight vanilla-style shader that adds colored lighting and a handful of tasteful quality-of-life visual tweaks while keeping the classic look. Highly configurable and built for the highest possible performance.

⚠️ Important Notes

• This modpack was developed with 8GB of allocated RAM, so keep that in mind
• A dedicated graphics card, even a very old one, is highly reccomended to play with shaders
• The defualt Minecraft options with this pack are genreally vanilla with music turned off. The defualt mod options have been handcrafted to provide a pleasing expereince.
• These Java flags may give you better performance -XX:+UseZGC -XX:+ZGenerational -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch