The BEST Mods to Enhance Vanilla Minecraft 1.21.7

The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!

A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs

Using async path-tracing to hide Block-/Entities that are not visible

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric

Adds a full screen world map which shows you what you have explored in the world. Works great together with Xaero's Minimap.

EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.

Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures

Render the player skin layer in 3d!

Reduce resource usage while Minecraft is in the background, idle, or on battery.

Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.

Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.

See farther without turning your game into a slide show

Allows for render distances greater than the server's view-distance

A Minecraft mod that improves the statistics screen and makes it more useful.

A client-side schematic mod with extra features for creative mode work

A Minecraft Mod to record, relive and share your experience.

Replaces weather with prettier particle effects

Be notified about all the things you've just collected.

Durability Tooltip shows you the durability of an item!

Spices up the boring vanilla blur effect – featuring animations, colors and lots of customizability!

There, I fixed Minecraft for you. Various optional tweaks to improve Minecraft Quality of Life.

Customize the scrolling smoothness or speed in various places like chat, hotbar, creative screen...

In-game resource pack, data pack and shader browser and updater.

The all-in-one tool for editing Minecraft Worlds.

A Minecraft Map Editor... that runs in-game! With selections, schematics, copy and paste, brushes, and scripting. Use it in creative, or use it temporarily in survival.

Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.

Helpful camera utilities

Makes text more pleasant to select by improving the "move by word" feature (Ctrl+← and Ctrl+→).

Shows information (like enchantments) about the held item under its name.

Removes useless information from the debug screen.

A "mini F3" HUD mod, also with various overlays like light level, spawn chunks, slime chunks etc.

Makes the loading screen darker.

Creates ambient sounds for certain blocks during rain

Boids simulation for flocking fish 🐟

A calculator in your chat with shortcuts designed for Minecraft

Take control of the position of your GUI and fix the broken hotbar selection texture!

Inventory update concept for hotswapping items.

Hide only the HUD using F1

A Fabric mod that provides additional information about items and blocks

Adds animations to the hotbar to make it more immersive

😍 Removes the cooldown in between trying to attract animals with their desired food.

Configurable orthographic view mode

Easily bind Minecraft commands to keyboard keys