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.

Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

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

A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures

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

Render the player skin layer in 3d!

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

Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

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

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

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

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

Durability Tooltip shows you the durability of an item!

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

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

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

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

Replaces weather with prettier particle effects

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

Smoothly scrolls chat, hotbar, creative inventory and much more!

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.

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

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+→), and enabling text selection with the mouse.

Makes the loading screen darker.

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.

A calculator in your chat with shortcuts designed for Minecraft

Fixes the hotbar selector texture and lets you move around GUI layers to your liking!

Boids simulation for flocking fish 🐟

Inventory update concept for hotswapping items.

A Fabric mod that provides additional information about items and blocks

Hide only the HUD using F1

Creates ambient sounds for certain blocks during rain

Configurable orthographic view mode

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

Easily bind Minecraft commands to keyboard keys

Adds animations to the hotbar to make it more immersive