By Design
ModpackA vanilla Minecraft modpack focused on performance, polish, and intentional quality-of-life improvements.
Type
Modpack
Modrinth Downloads
65
Modrinth ID
Cuw9cG6b
Last Updated
Oct 6, 2026
Description
By Design
A vanilla Minecraft modpack focused on performance, polish, and intentional quality-of-life improvements.
By Design is a curated collection of Fabric mods that improves Minecraft while preserving its vanilla gameplay and identity.
What It Does
Performance Optimizes rendering, memory usage, chunk processing, lighting, networking, and other systems to provide smoother gameplay and better performance.
Polish Improves visual presentation, audio, animations, interfaces, and other small details while keeping Minecraft's existing style.
Quality of Life Adds small, practical improvements to interfaces, information, and everyday interactions without automating gameplay or replacing vanilla mechanics.
Design Philosophy
Every mod was chosen because it provides a specific improvement that fits the pack's goals. Many mods were tested and removed because they were redundant, inconsistent, unnecessary, or changed vanilla more than intended.
By Design intentionally avoids major gameplay overhauls, new progression systems, magic, technology, quests, and other additions that fundamentally change how Minecraft is played.
The goal is simple: make Minecraft run better, feel better, and stay Minecraft.
Technical Information
Minecraft: 26.2 Loader: Fabric Focus: Client-side
By Design is intended to work alongside vanilla multiplayer while improving the client experience.
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Contained Mods (69)
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
3D Skin Layers
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
CreativeCore
a core mod
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
Packet Fixer
A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Crash Assistant
Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
AmbientSounds 6
#listentonature
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
Text Placeholder API
Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
Fast IP Ping
Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses
Dynamic Crosshair
A mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context
Better Statistics Screen
A Minecraft mod that improves the statistics screen and makes it more useful.
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
kennytvs-epic-force-close-loading-screen-mod-for-fabric
Instantly closes the loading terrain screen on world changing and drastically reduces the resource pack loading screen d...
Structure Layout Optimizer
Attempts to optimize the generation of Jigsaw Structures and NBT pieces
M.R.U
A library mod used by Cassian and IMB11's mods to function.
MoreCulling
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
Fast Better Grass
Makes grass and related blocks use the top texture on the sides. Works with other resource packs!
Chat Reporting Helper
An educational tool that explains chat reporting in a simple and neutral way.
Debugify
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
Sounds
Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...
Gnetum
Distribute HUD updates over multiple frames to improve performance
Ixeris
Buffered raw input and threaded event polling
Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]
Makes chat messages appear with a smooth animation.
Boat Item View
See your held items as you row your boat!
Presence Footsteps
An overly complicated sound mod
OptiGUI
Blazing fast custom GUI textures on Fabric and Quilt with built-in OptiFine custom GUI resource pack support
Remove Reloading Screen
Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!
FastQuit
Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background!
ScalableLux
A Fabric mod based on Starlight that improves the performance of light updates in Minecraft.
Krypton
A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack
AsyncParticles(Archived)
Async particle ticking/rendering.
Raise Sound Limit Simplified
A mod that improves sound engine performance and raises Minecraft sound sources limit in a simple way
ModernFix-mVUS
A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.
Fast Noise
This optimizes noise generation
TCDCommons API
TheCSDev's personal library mod for the Minecraft modding enviroment.
Held Item Info
Shows information (like enchantments) about the held item under its name
Better Tab Info
Improves tab list with extra info (TPS & numerical ping), customizable rows and columns, as well as scrolling.
Smooth Gui
Smooth animation when opening GUI for Minecraft. GUI fades up when opened.
Very Many Players (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve server performance at high playercounts.
Status Effect Bars
Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.
quick pack
Improve datapack / resourcepack zip file loading times
Async Logger
Asynchronous logging and efficient filtering - performance improvements and utility for keeping your logs clean
Craft Config Lib
A client-side configuration library that supports presets and built-in keybinds.
AudioThrottle
Improves the Minecraft sound engine for better performance
Optimised Block Entities
A client-side optimization mod to make block entities render faster
Jasione
Reduce GC pressure by safely eliminating Enum#values array cloning and memory allocation overhead through bytecode analy...
ZConfig
A mixin config mod with override loading from other mods