List of Minecraft mods I use

modlist.md

Last updated: 2024-10-11

• Minecraft ver: 1.21.1
• Modloader: Quilt*

* Most of these mods work on both Quilt and Fabric. For Quilt-exclusive mods, Fabric-compatible alternatives are listed (if there are any).

Dependencies

• Quilt Standard Libraries (or Fabric API if you're on Fabric)
  • Required by many mods in this list.
• Quilt Kotlin Libraries (or Fabric Language Kotlin if you're on Fabric)
  • Required by Capes, Inventory Profiles Next, and Fzzy Config.
• Cloth Config API
  • Required by many mods in this list.
• Mod Menu (optional, but will make your life much easier)
  • Adds a mods button that shows a list of installed mods.
  • Lets you configure mods that have a configuration screen.

Performance

• Sodium
  • Improves rendering performance.
  • Optional: Add Sodium Extra for more video settings.
  • Optional: Add Reese's Sodium Options for a better options screen.
• Lithium
  • Improves performance in game physics and mob AI.
• Entity Culling
  • Skips rendering entities and block-entities that are not visible.
• More Culling
  • Skips rendering a whole lot of things that are not visible. I can't list them all.
• Enhanced Block Entities
  • Improves block entity rendering.
• FerriteCore
  • Reduces Minecraft's memory usage.

QOL

• MixinTrace
  • Adds mixins to the stack trace in crash reports. Useful in identifying which mod caused the crash.
• Mod Loading Screen
  • Shows the mod loading process in a loading screen before the game starts.
• No Telemetry
  • Removes Telemetry from the game.
• NotifMod
  • Plays a notification sound when certain things happen (e.g. chat messages, low durability).
• Better Ping Display
  • Shows exact ping values in the player list.
• Better Statistics Screen (requires TCDCommons API)
  • Massively improves the statistics screen.
• Controlling (requires Searchables)
  • Adds improvements to the keybinds screen (e.g. search keybinds, show conflicting keybinds).
• Hide Hands (requires Collective)
  • Hides your hands in first-person, depending on the items you're holding.
• Who am I?
  • Shows your own nametag above your head (in inventory and third person view), like other players.
• Clear Despawn
  • Makes items flash when they are about to despawn.
• OK Zoomer
  • Adds a customizable zoom function.
• AppleSkin
  • Adds food-related HUD improvements (shows saturation value, previews hunger value when holding a food item).
• Chat Heads
  • Shows player heads next to chat messages.
• Custom HUD
  • Fully customizable text HUD.
• Status Effect Bars
  • Shows bars on the effect overlay HUDs, showing the remaining duration of effects.

• WTHIT (requires Bad Packets)
  • Adds a tooltip that shows the block/entity you are looking at. Useful in modded games, or when you want to know blockstates (e.g. age of wheat crops or whatever).
• Pet Owner
  • Shows the owner of each pet under their nametag.
• Xaero's Minimap
  • Minimap mod.
• Xaero's World Map
  • Worldmap mod (displays a full map of all explored chunks in a world).
• Inventory Profiles Next (requires LibIPN)
  • Adds many customizable inventory tweaks and keybinds, like inventory sorting.
• EMI
  • Item recipe viewer, similar to REI/JEI/NEI/TMI.
  • Optional: add EMI Loot (requires Fzzy Config) for loot tables of blocks, mobs, and chests.
• VTDownloader
  • Lets you download a VanillaTweaks resource pack from inside the game.

Aesthetic

• Iris
  • Shaders mod. Compatible with OptiFine shader packs.
• LambDynamicLights
  • Adds dynamic lighting when you hold a light-emitting block like a torch. Also adds dynamic lights to some mobs like blazes.
• LambdaBetterGrass (ported to 1.21.x by IMS)
  • Adds better connected textures for grass, snow, and sculk.
• Distant Horizons
  • Adds customizable LOD rendering for chunks further than your vanilla render distance, effectively giving you a higher render distance.
• Continuity
  • Adds the ability to have connected textures in resource packs.
  • Also comes with a resource pack that adds connected textures to glass, bookshelves, and sandstone.
• Falling Leaves
  • Adds falling leaf particles to leaf blocks.
• Not Enough Animations
  • Adds more player animations (e.g. eating, rowing boat paddles, climbing ladders).
• Wavey Capes
  • Adds a smooth animation to capes when the player is moving.
• Blur+
  • Adds customizable options for the background blur in menus and your inventory.
• Smooth Scrolling
  • Adds a smooth animation to UI elements when scrolling.
• Smooth Swapping (ported to 1.21 by Riflusso)
  • Adds a smooth animation to item movements in inventories (when shift-clicking an item).
• Ambient Sounds (requires CreativeCore)
  • Adds ambient sounds.
• Sound Physics Remastered
  • Adds realistic sound physics (attenuation, reverb, and absorption).
• Presence Footsteps
  • Adds improved footstep sound effects.

Other

• ViaFabric
  • Lets you join servers that run older versions of Minecraft. (use at your own risk!)
• Capes
  • Shows unofficial capes (e.g. OptiFine and LabyMod).
• Ears
  • Adds customizable ears, tails, and other accessories to player skins.