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By Design

Modpack

A 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.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

26.2 26.3

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Contained Mods (69)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 558,764,356
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.

Mod 542,501,940
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 512,206,036
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 320,276,436
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible

Mod 412,409,735
Fabric API

Fabric API

Core API library for the Fabric toolchain

Mod 510,206,313
YetAnotherConfigLib

YetAnotherConfigLib

A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.

Mod 257,958,340
Sodium

Sodium

The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!

Mod 398,178,944
FerriteCore

FerriteCore

Memory usage optimizations

Mod 159,033,039
3D Skin Layers

3D Skin Layers

Render the player skin layer in 3d!

Mod 81,094,374
CreativeCore

CreativeCore

a core mod

Mod 279,587,102
Sound Physics Remastered

Sound Physics Remastered

A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.

Mod 205,823,096
Better Advancements

Better Advancements

Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+

Mod 281,584,215
Resourceful Config

Resourceful Config

Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs

Mod 160,220,726
Packet Fixer

Packet Fixer

A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.

Mod 142,385,622
Fzzy Config

Fzzy Config

Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!

Mod 134,972,104
Crash Assistant

Crash Assistant

Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.

Mod 91,499,747
Simple Voice Chat

Simple Voice Chat

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

Mod 197,393,055
No Chat Reports

No Chat Reports

Makes chat unreportable (where possible)

Mod 182,737,604
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.

Mod 234,106,302
AmbientSounds 6

AmbientSounds 6

#listentonature

Mod 171,146,162
Chat Heads

Chat Heads

See who are you chatting with!

Mod 168,483,409
BadOptimizations

BadOptimizations

Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering

Mod 124,512,933
Mod Menu

Mod Menu

Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.

Mod 236,722,746
Reese's Sodium Options

Reese's Sodium Options

Alternative Options Menu for Sodium

Mod 161,960,624
Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric language module for Kotlin

Mod 211,712,430
Continuity

Continuity

A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures

Mod 140,967,048
Sodium Extra

Sodium Extra

Features that shouldn't be in Sodium

Mod 175,512,026
Text Placeholder API

Text Placeholder API

Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.

Mod 70,226,297
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)

Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)

A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.

Mod 39,638,209
Fast IP Ping

Fast IP Ping

Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses

Mod 78,005,832
Dynamic Crosshair

Dynamic Crosshair

A mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context

Mod 21,579,615
Better Statistics Screen

Better Statistics Screen

A Minecraft mod that improves the statistics screen and makes it more useful.

Mod 19,826,000
Dynamic FPS

Dynamic FPS

Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background

Mod 122,288,250
kennytvs-epic-force-close-loading-screen-mod-for-fabric

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...

Mod 7,873,389
Structure Layout Optimizer

Structure Layout Optimizer

Attempts to optimize the generation of Jigsaw Structures and NBT pieces

Mod 37,617,877
M.R.U

M.R.U

A library mod used by Cassian and IMB11's mods to function.

Mod 53,739,111
MoreCulling

MoreCulling

A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance

Mod 97,610,205
Fast Better Grass

Fast Better Grass

Makes grass and related blocks use the top texture on the sides. Works with other resource packs!

Resource Pack 13,499,772
Chat Reporting Helper

Chat Reporting Helper

An educational tool that explains chat reporting in a simple and neutral way.

Resource Pack 17,116,642
Debugify

Debugify

Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker

Mod 74,784,333
Sound​s

Sound​s

Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...

Mod 36,592,325
Gnetum

Gnetum

Distribute HUD updates over multiple frames to improve performance

Mod 17,081,200
Ixeris

Ixeris

Buffered raw input and threaded event polling

Mod 21,184,250
Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]

Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]

Makes chat messages appear with a smooth animation.

Mod 35,865,392
Boat Item View

Boat Item View

See your held items as you row your boat!

Mod 31,045,359
Presence Footsteps

Presence Footsteps

An overly complicated sound mod

Mod 70,556,014
OptiGUI

OptiGUI

Blazing fast custom GUI textures on Fabric and Quilt with built-in OptiFine custom GUI resource pack support

Mod 39,986,833
Remove Reloading Screen

Remove Reloading Screen

Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!

Mod 44,841,696
FastQuit

FastQuit

Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background!

Mod 34,688,129
ScalableLux

ScalableLux

A Fabric mod based on Starlight that improves the performance of light updates in Minecraft.

Mod 27,276,658
Krypton

Krypton

A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack

Mod 80,658,398
AsyncParticles(Archived)

AsyncParticles(Archived)

Async particle ticking/rendering.

Mod 15,590,567
Raise Sound Limit Simplified

Raise Sound Limit Simplified

A mod that improves sound engine performance and raises Minecraft sound sources limit in a simple way

Mod 4,221,114
ModernFix-mVUS

ModernFix-mVUS

A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.

Mod 11,637,748
Fast Noise

Fast Noise

This optimizes noise generation

Mod 12,822,630
TCDCommons API

TCDCommons API

TheCSDev's personal library mod for the Minecraft modding enviroment.

Mod 22,214,366
Held Item Info

Held Item Info

Shows information (like enchantments) about the held item under its name

Mod 9,802,261
Better Tab Info

Better Tab Info

Improves tab list with extra info (TPS & numerical ping), customizable rows and columns, as well as scrolling.

Mod 368,379
Smooth Gui

Smooth Gui

Smooth animation when opening GUI for Minecraft. GUI fades up when opened.

Mod 5,289,746
Very Many Players (Fabric)

Very Many Players (Fabric)

A Fabric mod designed to improve server performance at high playercounts.

Mod 20,869,008
Status Effect Bars

Status Effect Bars

Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.

Mod 11,613,835
quick pack

quick pack

Improve datapack / resourcepack zip file loading times

Mod 5,140,590
Async Logger

Async Logger

Asynchronous logging and efficient filtering - performance improvements and utility for keeping your logs clean

Mod 3,451,846
Craft Config Lib

Craft Config Lib

A client-side configuration library that supports presets and built-in keybinds.

Mod 540,440
AudioThrottle

AudioThrottle

Improves the Minecraft sound engine for better performance

Mod 230,482
Optimised Block Entities

Optimised Block Entities

A client-side optimization mod to make block entities render faster

Mod 2,183,479
Jasione

Jasione

Reduce GC pressure by safely eliminating Enum#values array cloning and memory allocation overhead through bytecode analy...

Mod 449,079
ZConfig

ZConfig

A mixin config mod with override loading from other mods

Mod 845,546

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