Vanilla SMP

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• 🏆 1000+ Advancements — with rewards and trophies
• ⚡ Better Performance — runs great on just 2 GB RAM
• 🔊 Better Sounds — GUI sounds, sound physics, expanded Minecraft music
• 🩺 Better HUD — armor durability HUD, status effects HUD
• 🎨 Better Visuals — animations, textures, particles, atmosphere & animated mobs
• 🖼️ Better GUI — legendary tooltips, icons, custom font, chat animations, dark mode
• 🧭 Better Gameplay — Litematica, freecam, click-through frames, shulker tooltips, waypoint location bar
• 🧱 Better Textures — connected textures, refreshed vanilla textures
• 🎭 Better Customization — skin changer, cape changer
• ⚙️ Better Settings — fog control, entity render distance control

🎮 Gameplay

• Advancements — 1000+ Advancements with Rewards and Trophies
• Events — Special plugin that brings live server-wide events
• Fishing — Makes fishing more dynamic: the catches depend on where you fish, weather, and your luck level. It turns every trip to the water into a mini-game instead of a flat random roll.
• Items — Adds special gear, tools, and consumables with unique effects.
• Worlds — Your gateway to fresh, random regenerated worlds in Minecraft!
• Enchantments — Additional Enchantments with unique custom mechanics, effects and magic
• Teams — Players can build a real squad: organize chat, unlock shared perks, and make teamwork feel connected
• Quests - Everyone completes on the same quest board. Be first. Grab the reward
• Playtime Rewards - Earn emeralds just by playing!

⚡ Performance

• Sodium — Complete rendering engine replacement. Massive FPS gains with zero gameplay impact.
• Sodium Extra — Extra toggles for Sodium: animations, weather, particles — full control.
• Lithium — Optimizes game logic (mob AI, physics, chunks) without changing behavior.
• EntityCulling — Skips rendering entities behind walls and out of view. Big FPS boost in crowded areas.
• MoreCulling — Extends culling to blocks and foliage for even fewer wasted draw calls.

🎨 Visuals

Shaders & Textures

• Iris Shaders — Shader loader for Fabric, fully compatible with Sodium. Supports OptiFine shader format.
• Continuity — Connected textures for glass, leaves and more — just like OptiFine.
• SimpleFog — Fine-tune or disable fog; add atmospheric haze at any distance.

Animations & Models

• Not Enough Animations — New first-person and third-person player animations: off-hand holding, swimming, ladder climbing.
• ETF — Entity Texture Features — Random and variant mob textures. Required by FreshAnimations.
• EMF — Entity Model Features — Custom entity models via resource packs. Required by FreshAnimations.
• SkinLayers 3D — Renders the outer skin layer as true 3D geometry — hats, jackets, beards all pop out.

Particles & Atmosphere

• Visuality — Adds ambient particles: torch sparks, bubbles, magical effects on mobs and items.
• InventoryParticles — Emits particles from inventory slots based on equipped items.
• CoolRain — Improved rain with splash animations on surfaces.

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🔊 Sound

• Sound Physics Remastered — Realistic sound physics: cave echo, muffled audio behind walls, reverb in large spaces.
• Sounds — Extended sound pack with new sounds for actions, mobs and environment.

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🖥️ UI & HUD

Menus & Loading

• FancyMenu — Fully customize the main menu: backgrounds, buttons, animations, music.
• Drippy Loading Screen — Stylish loading screen with progress bar, custom background and logo.
• ModMenu — Browse installed mods in settings with direct access to each mod's config.

Advancements

• BetterAdvancements — Redesigned advancements screen: smooth navigation, stats, search.
• Advancements+ — Extra achievement hints and progress information.

Tooltips & Inventory

• ShulkerBox Tooltip — Hover over a shulker box to preview its contents without opening.
• Dynamic Tooltips — Animated item tooltips with smooth fade-in appearance.
• Enchantment Descriptions — Shows a description of each enchantment directly in the item tooltip.
• TierTagger — Colored rarity/tier badge on items in inventory.
• ClickThrough+ — Click through signs and item frames to interact with blocks behind them.

HUD

• Simple Armor HUD — Compact on-screen display showing armor durability at a glance.
• EffectTimerPlus — Remaining duration overlay for every active status effect.
• Effectual — Visual improvements to status effect icons and their layout.
• Stendhal — Better formatting and display of long text in books and chat.

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🧭 Utilities & Gameplay

Building & Navigation

• Litematica — Schematic tool: load a structure and build it block by block with a ghost overlay.
• VanillaWaypoints — Waypoints integrated into the vanilla interface — no bloated UI.
• LocatorLodestones — Compass can point to lodestones directly from your inventory.
• Legacy Freecam — Detached free camera for screenshots and scouting without moving your character.

Exploration

• BookshelfInspector — Hover over a bookshelf to see the books stored inside.
• Spyglass Astronomy — Point your spyglass at the night sky to observe constellations and planets.
• Legacies & Legends — RPG elements: artifacts, legendary items and unique abilities hidden in the world.

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💬 Social & Personalization

• Simple Voice Chat — In-game voice chat with positional audio, walkie-talkie mode and channels.
• CraftPresence — Discord Rich Presence showing exactly what you're doing and where in Minecraft.
• SkinShuffle — Switch skins without restarting; manage multiple skin profiles.
• BetterCapes — Custom capes: upload your own or pick from a community collection.
• Chat Animation — Messages in chat appear with a smooth slide-in animation.

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🎨 Resource Packs

Mob Animations

• FreshAnimations v1.10.4 — Complete overhaul of every mob's animations: fluid movement, expressive faces, lifelike behavior. The flagship pack.
• FA+Details — Addon to FreshAnimations adding high-detail textures and fine surface details.
• Eating Animation — Unique eating animations in the player's hand for every food item.
• AL's Enderman Revamped — Enderman rebuilt for FA: new model, animations and menacing expression.
• AL's Piglins Revamped — Piglins and Brutes with detailed new FA-style animations.
• AL's Skeletons Revamped — All skeleton variants with improved models and Fresh-style movement.
• AL's Zombies Revamped — Zombies with reworked motion and detailing tuned for FreshAnimations.
• AL's Scorpions & Crabs — Spiders reimagined as scorpions and crabs with unique animations.
• Drodi's Blazes FA — Blazes with reworked models and smooth Fresh-compatible animations.
• Drodi's Illagers x FA — Pillagers, Evokers and Vindicators with detailed FA animations.

World Enhancement

• Simple Grass Flowers — Sprinkles small flowers and plants into grass for a lush, lived-in look.
• Fancy Crops — Crops (wheat, carrot, potato) rendered as full, voluminous plants as they grow.
• Connected Bricks — Seamless brick textures that flow across block boundaries.
• Connected Paths — Cobblestone and stone slab paths connect without hard edges.
• Connected Rocks — Stone and cobblestone form monolithic rock surfaces on large walls.
• Vanilla Experience+ — Large-scale vanilla texture refresh that stays true to Minecraft's original style.

UI & HUD

• Default Dark Mode — Dark theme for the entire Minecraft UI: inventory, menus, books.
• MandalasGUI Dark Mode — Ornate dark-themed GUI with mandala patterns for an elegant look.
• Numbered Hotbar — Slot numbers on the hotbar for instant orientation.
• Icons — Improved icons for status effects, tools and other HUD elements.
• TGK Enchants — Enchantments displayed as clean symbolic icons on items.
• qrafty's Capitalized Font — All-caps style font for clean, readable in-game text.
• Chat+ — Enhanced chat formatting with icons, dividers and better layout.
• Wynn Ranks — WynnCraft-style rank prefixes and badges in chat.
• BACAP Language Pack — Localization pack for Better Advancements Completion achievements.

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🌟 Shaders

• Complementary Reimagined r5.7.1 — The gold standard for vanilla-style shaders. Soft lighting, volumetric clouds, realistic shadows — beautiful without breaking Minecraft's aesthetic.

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