Eridanus Origin

Eridanus is a series of modpacks built upon Origin, the core base modpack designed to preserve vanilla gameplay while significantly enhancing mechanics, graphics, and overall user experience.

Every variant in the Eridanus series builds on top of Origin with the goal of bundling essential addons around a specific core mod.

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Origin Modpack

Overview

The main goal of Origin is to elevate the core vanilla experience without introducing overhaul blocks or gameplay-breaking mechanics. It focuses on visual enhancements and essential Quality of Life (QoL) features.

Key Features

• Visual Enhancements: Advanced particle effects, custom shaders, visual effects, 3D textures, and more. The pack can offer a good visual improvement also without shaders to be light and aesthetic on low-end pcs.
• Quality of Life (QoL) Improvements:
  • Automatic tree felling
  • Automatic door opening
  • Crop harvesting with automatic replanting
  • Tool repairing using player experience points
  • Conflict-free, pre-configured default keybindings
  • Screenshot viewer in settings
  • View mod list for complete mechanics

Performance & Configuration

• Balanced Resource Profile: Pre-configured for optimal performance out of the box.
• Distant Horizons: Configured to maintain smooth performance while supporting up to 256 render distance chunks (with pre-generation enabled).
• Shaders: Disabled by default for maximum compatibility, with popular shader packs pre-included in the settings menu.

Platform & Compatibility

• Loaders: NeoForge & Fabric
• Minecraft Versions: Target versions starting from 1.21.1+
• Parity: Maintaining maximum feature and mod parity between both loaders.

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Aesthetic & Visuals

Mod Name	Description / Category
3D Skin Layers	3D player model details
AmbientSounds	Immersive environment audio
Better Animations Collection	Improved entity animations
Better Clouds	Volumetric & customizable clouds
Blur+	Background blur in GUI menus
Chat Animation Smooth Chat	Smooth chat transitions
Chat Heads	Player heads in chat messages
Cinematic Zoom	Smooth camera zoom feature
Distant Horizons	Extended LOD view distances
Elytra Physics	Realistic flight physics
Iris Shaders	High-performance shader support
Particle Interactions	Physics-based particles
Particle Rain	Enhanced weather particles
Shadow Drop	Entity shadow rendering
Smooth Swapping	Item animation transitions
Sound Physics Remastered	Realistic acoustics & reverberation
Traveler's Titles	On-screen biome/area notifications
Wavey Capes	Dynamic cape physics
Wavey Hair	Dynamic hair physics

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Gameplay & Mechanics (Quality of Life)

Mod Name	Description / Feature
Automatic Doors	Automatically opens and closes doors as player approaches
Better Than Mending	Repair gear using XP directly from player experience points
Bottled Air	Craftable glass bottles that restore oxygen underwater
Full Brightness Toggle	Keybind shortcut to toggle night vision / full brightness
Inventory Tabs	Quick navigation tabs for nearby chests and inventories
Nemo's Inventory Sorting	One-click inventory and chest item sorting
No Animal Tempt Delay	Animals respond immediately when holding food
Quick Right-Click	Fast item harvesting and interaction with right click
Replanting Crops	Harvest mature crops and automatically replant seeds
Resourcify	In-game browser to download texture and resource packs
Screenshot Viewer	Integrated gallery interface to view taken screenshots
Stack Refill	Automatically refills hotbar slots when items run out
Thorny Bush Protection	Armor prevents damage when walking through sweet berry bushes
Tree Harvester	Chop down entire trees by breaking a single block
Xaero's Minimap	Clean, customizable HUD minimap with waypoints
Xaero's World Map	Full-screen interactive map with exploration tracking
Xaero Head Tracker	Displays player skin icons on Xaero's map interfaces
XaeroPlus	Performance and integration enhancements for Xaero's maps