Shades 'n' Shine
ModpackThis modpack aims to create a semi-realistic, vanilla-style environment, visual and interactive adventure with minimal FPS drops and high customisability.
Description
If you want to play the full version of the modpack, please download the latest 1.21.11 version!!!
This Modpack is a collection of Mods and Resourcepacks that you can find on Modrinth that aims to create a semi-realistic, vanilla-style environment, visual and interactive adventure with minimal FPS drops and high customisability. I have gone through many, many Modrinth pages to find the best optimisations and debug mods to squeeze out every last drop of FPS.
NOTE: When playing in multiplayer, ensure that you disable the mod "Wet Sand" as the game becomes unplayable as block id's get messed up easily; you might find your deepslate becoming water!
Q: How often do updates come out?
Answer: I try my best to push out updates as quickly as possible, but with school and testing needs for the modpack, it may take a week or two to upload an update.
Q: How do I install it?
Answer: Download the file and double-click it. This should start creating the modpack for you in Modrinth if you have Modrinth installed.
Q: Can you make the modpack for older versions?
Answer: Unfortunately, outside of 1.21.11, the main mods that bring the life together are not compatible with 1.21.10 and earlier. 1.21.10 is the earliest version I will update for, as 1.21.9 has little to no features regarding this mopack; there aren't even replacement mods I could find.
Q: Can you update the modpack for a newer version?
Answer: Currently, no. Most of the mods still need to be upgraded.
Common Errors and Fixes:
Java Version Incompatibility Error:

For this error, you must install said version of Java on your computer and then go to Shades 'n' Shine> Instance Settings> Java and memory> Java version. Here you need to tick the box that says: "Custom Java Installation" and then choose "Detect" and then choose the correct version of Java.
JDK Error:

For this error, click on "Guide for popular launchers", and it should be smooth sailing from their - It'll have an easy step-by-step on their site.
Future Additions:
- My custom music
- Custom quests and advancements
- More simple QoL improvements
- Enhanced Structures (without adding much)
- Missing blocks (stairs, slabs, etc)
- Better balanced loot tables and chests
Minecraft Title created using the "Minecraft Title" plugin, which can be found on Blockbench: https://blockbench.net
My Music: https://musescore.com/s/user/62305303/sets/14941418 (to be added in the update 2.0)
Vanilla Tweaks: https://vanillatweaks.net/
Note: For an even better visual experience for skin customisation and emotes, I would recommend Essentials (mod), but remember to disable the Fresh Animations Player extension and HMI and HMI X Fresh Player Patch to avoid armour and player animations from being broken.

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Contained Mods (180)
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
CreativeCore
a core mod
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
AmbientSounds 6
#listentonature
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
Forge Config API Port
NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.
Packet Fixer
A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
MoreCulling
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
Pick Up Notifier
Be notified about all the things you've just collected.
Just Zoom
Lots of new features and improvements for the Spyglass, plus a standalone zooming mode!
3D Skin Layers
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
Krypton
A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack
Fast IP Ping
Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses
libIPN
Gui/Config Libarary for Inventory Profiles Next and related mods
JamLib
The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods
Debugify
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
Language Reload
Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages
Visuality
Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
Presence Footsteps
An overly complicated sound mod
Get It Together, Drops!
Adds tags and configuration options for defining how dropped items should combine.
Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]
What's in my shulker box?
Particle Core
Particle optimizations: Culling, rendering optimizations, configurable particle-type-specific spawn reduction, and potio...
Fresh Animations
Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.
Puzzle
Adds resourcepack features and a GUI to more conveniently configure OptiFine alternatives.
bad packets
Bad Packets allows packet messaging between different modding platforms.
Better Mount HUD
Improves the ingame HUD while riding a mount
Stoneworks
Vanilla stone types in plenty of variations for all your building needs.
More Chat History
Increases the size of the chat history.
Particle Rain
replaces the default weather with particle effects
Friends&Foes (Fabric/Quilt)
Adds outvoted and forgotten mobs from the mob vote, expanding on their original concepts and adding new vanilla-like fea...
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
Particular ✨ Reforged
Particular is a mod that enhances Minecraft's ambience with many hand-crafted visual effects. Forge Port !
Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]
Makes chat messages appear with a smooth animation.
Boat Item View
See your held items as you row your boat!
CleanCut
Attack enemies through obstructions! FORGE & NEOFORGE & FABRIC!
Polytone
Custom Block Sounds, Colors, Lightmaps, Colormaps, Post Shaders, Custom Item Models, Biome Variant Textures, Gui modifi...
ScalableLux
A Fabric mod based on Starlight that improves the performance of light updates in Minecraft.
Let Me Despawn
Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules. Say bye to pesky unintentional persistent mobs.
Ixeris
Buffered raw input and threaded event polling
Almanac
Almanac is a library used by my mods with mostly loader independent shared code between multiple mods to avoid duplicati...
LibJF
A library for my mods
Very Many Players (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve server performance at high playercounts.
Variants&Ventures
Adds multiple new mob variants seamlessly integrated into your Minecraft world.
Immersive Optimization
A lightweight entity-tick-scheduler for doubling your TPS.
Gnetum
Distribute HUD updates over multiple frames to improve performance
Respackopts
Config menus for resource packs
Better Biome Reblend
Updated version of Better Biome Blend, a mod that improves and fixes biome color blending
Friends&Foes - Beekeeper Hut (Fabric/Quilt)
An addon for the Friends&Foes mod, adding a beekeeper hut structure.
ukulib
Small Utility Mod for Uku's Mods.
Fast Noise
This optimizes noise generation
lazy-language-loader (Fabric)
lazy-language-loader improves loading times when changing your language by only reloading the language instead of all th...
GPUTape
Fix VRAM leaks. Based on VideoTape.
ModernFix-mVUS
A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.
Make Bubbles Pop
Client-side mod that makes bubble particles pop and lets them rise realistically to the water surface.
Better Block Entities
A Minecraft optimization mod for Fabric/Sodium that improves FPS / Block Entity Rendering by implementing a Hybrid Rende...
Friends&Foes - Flowery Mooblooms (Fabric/Quilt)
An addon for the Friends&Foes mod, adding one moobloom variant for each flower.
FallingTree
Break down your trees by only cutting one piece of it
Drip Sounds
Adds sounds for drip particles landing
No Telemetry
Disable the telemetry introduced in 21w38a
uku's Armor HUD
Minimalist vanilla-like widget to display your armor items and their durability. Forked by uku.
Better Clouds
Beautiful clouds in touch with the vanilla style
Wakes
Adds splashes and wakes while traveling on water
ViaFabricPlus
Minecraft Fabric mod which allows you to join EVERY Minecraft server version (Classic, Alpha, Beta, Release, April Fools...
No Chat Restrictions
Restores access to game chat for all accounts
(Bee's) Fancy Crops
My take on prettier farming, compatible with mods
Cool Rain
Creates ambient sounds for certain blocks during rain
Cursors Extended
Configurable Minecraft-themed cursors
Hold My Items
Make your hands visible in first person!
Crops Love Rain
Makes crops grow faster when it's raining.
WalksyLib
A config / utility library for my mods
Enchant Icons
makes enchantment names have icons and colors for enchanted books and items and colored enchanting
Marlow's Crystal Optimizer
Optimization that fixes waiting on the server after crystal break before end crystal entities are cleaned.
Even Better Enchants
Unique textures for Enchanted Books!
Os' Colorful Grasses
Fluffier grasses! Tall, short, or original X style versions available, as well as a mix of the three for the optimal bal...
Fresh Animations: Player Extension
Animates players in Fresh Animations' style. An official FA extension.
ToadLib
Library-mod for minecraft. I need it for my other mods
Scribble
Expertly edit your books with rich formatting options, page utilities and more!
Visual: Armor Trims
Your favorite armor trims now show up in your inventory! Works in Vanilla 1.21.5+ ⚔️
Shuttfup
A mod that fixes some minor annoyances!
Fancy World Animations
This mod adds animations to a bunch of interactable blocks like doors, trapdoors, levers, buttons, jukeboxes but also sw...
Shield Fixes
This mod resolves issues with shield sounds and corrects the animation glitch where the player's shield doesn't display...
Map Distance Fix
A simple mod that shows a player indicator instead of a white dot when outside map boundaries.
Shut Up GL Error
Fixes invalid keycodes logging obnoxious and constant messages
XXL Packets
XXL Packets is a fork of XL Packets which raises the packet size limit from 2MB to the Java Integer limit (2.147483647 G...
Particle Interactions
Adds particles to more interactions in the game, such as placing blocks or stripping logs. Fully configurable and client...
ViaVersion
Allow newer Java Edition clients to connect to older servers.
TLib
Library for Take's Mods.
Effectual
Atmospheric effects and decorative particles.
Vocal Villagers
Adds 43 extra sounds villagers can make! Maintain the vanilla feel while making villages more lively.
Theone's Eating Animation Pack
A texture pack that adds sprite animations for edible and drinkable items.
PneumonoCore
Core mod my other mods depend on
Fresh Animations: Details
Adds an assortment of extra details to mobs for Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.
Countered's Terrain Slabs
A mod designed to enhance world generation and elevate the gameplay experience by smoothing out terrain with custom slab...
AL's Piglins Revamped x Fresh Animations
A pack that makes AL's Piglins Revamped compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!
Fresh Animations: Emissive
Makes some Fresh Animations' textures emit light. An official FA extension.
AL's Enderman Revamped x Fresh Animations
A pack that makes AL's Enderman Revamped compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!
AL's Dungeons Boss Bars
A pack that makes the Boss Bars in the style of Minecraft Dungeons!
Streams Reflowing
Adds beautiful flowing streams to your world.
Elytra Contrails Mod
Adds Accurate Elytra Trails with a Mod!
Fresh Skeleton Physics
Give skeletons physics - Now with Fresh Animations!
Ray's Better Sugarcane
Ever wanted better, more natural looking Sugarcane, and don't have the time or energy to get create your own textures, w...
Fresh Animations: Spiders
Overhauls the design of spiders with Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.
Snow Imprints
A client-side mod that adds dynamic block trails
Fresh Flowers and Plants
A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D plant and flowers models!
Enchantment Glows
Adds a glowing visual effect to enchanted tools
Fresh Animations: Creepers
New look for creepers, compatible with Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.
Roman Numerals for Enchant Icons
Replaces Enchant Icon's numbers with roman numerals.
Gravestones
Adds highly configurable Graves that spawn on death to hold your items
Natural Motion Blur
A motion blur mod that tries to mimic human vision motion blur by blending frames together, reducing stroboscopic effect...
Cassette Music Disc
turns the music discs into little cassettes tapes
Head in the Clouds
Make it not rain over the cloud level
Fresh Animations: Quivers
Gives skeletons quivers, compatible with Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.
No Realms Button
Removes the Minecraft Realms button from the main menu
Armor 3D
Renders the player and entity equipped armor in 3D and is compatible with most modded armor, dyes, and trims with suppor...
SWAY
Realistic foliage interaction and deformation for Minecraft.
Interactive Foliage
Plants physically react to players, mobs and items — no shaders required.
Riding Mouse Fix
Fixes the sluggishness of the mouse when riding on entities.
Jasione
Reduce GC pressure by safely eliminating Enum#values array cloning and memory allocation overhead through bytecode analy...
Simply No Shading
Removes darkening on sides of geometry, inspired by the old lighting from OptiFine's internal shaders, for in-game block...
Sunbathing Godrays
Adds godrays to Minecraft! requires polytone
small totem pop
A simple texture pack that makes the totem pop animation on your screen smaller so you dont turn blind immediately. can...
Rethoughted Spawn Eggs
Spawn eggs visual enchancement.
VTDownloader
Pick and download Vanilla Tweaks resource packs directly from your Minecraft client!
(Bee's) Fluffy Carpets and Wool
My take on prettier, fluffier carpets and wool blocks
RailOptimization
A simple mod that makes powered/activator rails turn on/off up to 4x faster. Fix vital crash.
Blooming Biosphere
Reimagines vanilla biomes, and adds brand new ones to make the overworld feel more polished and complete.
Emissive Glowing Ores
Makes ores glow to enhance visibility. (OptiFine/Continuity required)
Faster Crouching
🏃 Sprint and walk while crouching/sneaking at the speed of as if you weren't.
Immersive Storms
Immersive fog and weather effects for mountains, deserts, pale gardens, and more!
C2ME OpenCL Acceleration Module
C2ME addon that provides hardware accelerated world generation through OpenCL
F.M.R.P
This pack aim to bring the flair of Fresh Animations into the modded world.
Replanter Plus
Client-side mod to harvest and replant crops automatically with a single click
ServerAddressSpaceFix
Fix the "unknown host" bug when adding a server or connecting directly to a server with a space at the end of the server...
Shaded Font
Add a shading effect to the vanilla Minecraft font. Popular amongst Hypixel Skyblock players!
Faster Ladders
Spiritual Sucessor to Faster Ladder Climbing
FA: Player × HMI Patches
This resourcepack fixes Hold My Items and Fresh Animations: Player Extension compatibility problems.
Wet sand
Sand touching water will wet over time, creating beautiful and beaches. Wet sand defies gravity and can grow sugar cane...
Signs Faster
Optimizes the text of the signs
facebar
Replaces the icons on the locator bar of players with player skin
shut up realms
removes the realms notification dot and news icon!
sodiumfpscapfix
Replaces Sodium's FPS cap slider with a textbox so you can set any custom FPS cap.
World Alive: Ambient birds and wildlife
Particle based client side ambient birds and wildlife, based on cosy critters and creepy crawlies. Also contains other a...
Armorstands Reimagined
Armorstands Re-Worn!
AL's Ghasts Revamped x Fresh Animations
A pack that makes AL's Ghasts Revamped compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!
Dungeons Crit Sound REMAKE
A pack that replaces the Player Attack sounds with Sounds From Minecraft Dungeons.
Atmospheric Fauna
Minecraft mod that adds birds and other fauna making your world feel alive.
Cerulean Fork
Advancements optimization mod, updated fork of Icterine / Cerulean with added features
XXL Enderchest
A Fabric mod that expands your enderchest from the vanilla 3 rows (27 slots) to up to 6 rows (54 slots).
Fresh Animations Patch - Variants and Ventures
A Fresh Animations patch pack that allows "Variants & Ventures" to function with "Fresh Animations".
Extra Sodium Fog Fix
Restores Minecraft’s vanilla fog behavior to prevent unfair visibility advantages caused by other mods like Sodium Extra...
Shulker Buddies
Turns bundles into miniature shulkers that carry around your items!
BiomeWater+
Overhaul of water colors in many biomes
Better paths
Allow paths below some non full blocks
No More Gap
Place compatible blocks together in the same Minecraft cell for more detailed builds and seamless decoration.
Fast Links
Removes the confirmation screen for clicking links to save your precious time.