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Recommended Mods

Performance mods

We’re a vanilla-compatible server and players won’t miss out on anything by not installing any client-side mods, but we still recommend these performance-improving mods to everyone!

  • Sodium - A rewritten renderer for the game that gives enormous performance improvements! If you’re only going to try one of these mods, make it this one!
  • Dynamic FPS - Reduce the game’s max FPS when it’s not the active window - very handy for laptop users trying to save battery and reduce heat! It can reduce the game’s volume for you as well.
  • Lithium - A large assortment of game optimisations
  • FerriteCore - A range of memory usage optimisations
  • EntityCulling - Skips rendering of entities that are behind walls etc.
  • ImmediatelyFast - Optimisations for “immediate mode” rendering, which covers e.g. the GUI and particles
  • Krypton - Optimisations for the game’s network packet handling

There are also more performance mods that you can try (e.g. Exordium), but the ones listed here provide the bulk of possible improvements and can be relied on to work with lots of other mods without you having to change their settings.

Quality-of-Life Mods

Here are some other mods we recommend that add features, if you want them:

  • Mod Menu - Essential for configuring mods ingame!
  • FPS - Display - a simple FPS counter you can keep on all the time.
  • Iris - adds support for those fancy shader packs that you might have seen! All of the screenshots showcasing the world generation tweaks were taken with shader packs.
  • Xaero’s Minimap and World Map Xaero's world map and Xaero's minimap
    • We have server-side support for world ID sending that works with these and similar mods like JourneyMap, so they don’t get the regular overworld and creative zone mixed up.
  • AppleSkin - Shows additional hunger info (saturation and exhaustion) on your hunger meter, plus how much hunger and saturation is restored by a given kind of food. Screenshot of AppleSkin showing saturation and exhaustion on the hunger meter, plus showing hunger and saturation recovery on item tooltips
    • Yes, we have server-side support for saturation and exhaustion info sync
  • Show Me Your Skin! - People have great skins, so why not make it easier to see them under their armour?

For newer players, we especially recommend:

  • WTHIT (“What the hell is that?“) - Adds a tooltip that tells you the name of thing you’re looking at in the world
    • You can disable the option that adds what mod something is from to the tooltip - on this server, it’s always going to say “Minecraft”
  • EMI, or any other recipe browser mod - Lets you search through all the items in the game and look up their crafting recipes and ways of obtaining them. EMI open, searching for logs and showing some recipes, including how campfires can be made with any log
  • idwtialsimmoedm (“I didn’t want to install a library, so I made my own enchantments description mod”) - Tells you what the different kinds of enchantments do, right in the item tooltip!

You may also want the Stardust Labs Biome Name Fix resource pack, which adds friendly and translated names for the biomes introduced by Terralith and Nullscape instead of you just seeing their internal names like terralith:alpine_highlands in e.g. Xaero’s Minimap.