List of Minecraft mods I use

modlist.md

Last updated: 2026-07-25

• Minecraft ver: 26.2
• Modloader: Fabric

Dependencies

• Fabric API
  • Required by many mods in this list.
• Fabric Language Kotlin
  • Required by Capes and Inventory Profiles Next.
• 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.
• FerriteCore
  • Reduces Minecraft's memory usage.

QOL

• MixinTrace
  • Adds mixins to the stack trace in crash reports. May be useful in identifying which mod is causing crashes.
• Mod Loading Screen
  • Shows the mod loading process in a loading screen before the game starts.
• No Telemetry
  • Removes Telemetry from the game.

• Better Ping Display (ported to 26.1.2-26.2 by FengguaYa)
  • Shows exact ping values in the player list.
• 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.

• 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.

• Status Effect Bars
  • Shows bars on the effect overlay HUDs, showing the remaining duration of effects.
• Better Mount HUD
  • Fixes the HUD when riding an animal.

• Pet Owner (ported to 26.2 by CausingCoalition)
  • 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).
• Light Overlay (requires YetAnotherConfigLib)
  • Adds a toggleable light overlay that shows where mobs can spawn.
• Inventory Profiles Next (requires LibIPN)
  • Adds many customizable inventory management tweaks, like auto replacing items in your hotbar, and continuous crafting.
  • Might be against the rules of some servers. Use at your own risk.
  • I have the inventory sorting features disabled, and use ClientSort instead (see below).
• ClientSort
  • Inventory sorter.
• Roughly Enough Items (requires Architectury API)
  • Item recipe viewer, similar to EMI & JEI (I prefer EMI and will switch after it gets updated to 1.21.2+).
• Shulker Box Tooltip
  • Shows the contents of shulker boxes (and the ender chest if the mod is installed on the server too) in the tooltip when hovering over them in the inventory.

Aesthetic

• Iris
  • Shaders mod.
• LambDynamicLights
  • Adds dynamic lighting when you hold a light-emitting block like a torch. Also adds dynamic lights to some mobs like blazes.
• LambdaBetterGrass
  • Adds better connected textures for grass, snow, and sculk.
• Particle Rain (26.2 build)
  • Makes weather effects look nicer.
• 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.
• Not Enough Animations
  • Adds more player animations (e.g. eating, rowing boat paddles, climbing ladders).
• Wavey Capes
  • Makes player capes wave smoothly/realistically when the player is moving.
• Blur+
  • Adds customizable options for the background blur in menus and inventory UIs.
• Smooth Scroll
  • Adds a smooth animation to the UI when scrolling.
• Smooth Swapping
  • 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

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