Here are some of the top Minecraft Mods that you should be using .. you can thank me later.
- Optimization
- Lithium (faster game logic)
- Sodium (faster rendering)
- Indium (addon for Sodium)
- Sodium Extra (addon for Sodium)
- Reese’s Sodium Options (addon for Sodium)
- FerriteCore (reduced RAM usage)
- Memory Leak Fix (self-explanatory)
- Entity Culling (don’t render hidden things)
- UI
- Mod Menu (self-explanatory)
- Jade (block info)
- Roughly Enough Items (recipe viewer)
- Blur (makes menus stand out)
- Raised (fixes hotbar being too low)
- Enchantment Descriptions (self-explanatory)
- AppleSkin (show food values in UI)
- Detail Armor Bar (show different armors on bar)
- Chat Heads (see player heads in chat)
- Plague’s Chat Timestamps (self-explanatory)
- More Chat History (self-explanatory)
- Better Ping Display (self-explanatory)
- BetterF3 (self-explanatory)
- Better Statistics Screen (self-explanatory)
- other visual improvements
- SEUS (shaders)
- Not Enough Animations (better third-person animations)
- 3D Skin Layers (self-explanatory)
- WaveyCapes (self-explanatory)
- Show Me Your Skin! (hide armor out of combat)
- Visuality (more particles)
- Continuity (connected textures)
- Eating Animation (self-explanatory)
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