Neoforge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 102 free Neoforge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Shaders + HDR, Better Combat Punchy Fix, Aeronautics Hot Air Fix.
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Shaders + HDR
Enable native HDR in Minecraft with Iris shaders
Better Combat Punchy Fix
Fixes duplicated first-person weapon rendering when using Better Combat, Punchy, and shaders.
Aeronautics Hot Air Fix
Fixes a shader artifact when using Iris with Create: Aeronautics.
Sable: Destructive
Physics-driven destruction for Sable: block-by-block impacts, craters, debris, dust plumes, shockwaves, camera shake, custom shaders and live server controls.
The Forgotten Man
A hand-built DELTARUNE Chapter 5 dimension you reach through a craftable door. The tree room, the man behind the tree, and a shader based portal you can see through.
Cobblemon Cards
Collect, trade, grade, and display Pokémon trading cards with stunning 3D holographic shaders in Cobblemon!
Biome Shader Switch
🗸 Switches shaders based on the player's current biome. Supports Iris & Oculus shader packs with per-biome, per-height, and fallback shader rules. Auto-detects all biomes including modded ones — zero manual config needed.
Meshelium
A performance mod that uses mesh shader rendering to offer a signifigant boost in performance. Support Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPU's/iGPU's.
Always Bright
A mod that forces full brightness even when shaders are enabled, so your world is always fully lit with no dark areas.

Velvet
A Fabric & NeoForge library to help with shader usage, based off of Satin
Radiance (Linux)
Radiance is rebuilt of Minecraft OpenGL on a Vulkan C++ backend, featuring native Hardware Ray Tracing. Break free from OpenGL limits for Minecraft on Linux.
Nuclear and Atomic Bombs
Place and remotely detonate nuclear bombs that create massive craters, mushroom clouds with volumetric shaders, radiation effects, and scorched wastelands
Shader Patcher
Attempts to patch any Iris/Optifine shaderpack to add mod support
Simple Mod Sync (SMS)
A simple way to share and sync mods, resource packs, shaders, and other Minecraft content with your friends or community.
Outline N' Stuff - Enchantments
Client-side glowing outlines and enchant runes on enchanted items, with per-item colors and rarity tiers. Shader-compatible. Modpack Compatible. NeoForge & Fabric.

Literally Nothing
The ultimate universal Mod/Plugin/Resource pack/Shader that does literally nothing and runs on everything!

Vital
A mod which adds clean, minimal, but readable SHADER COMPATIBLE health bars to each mob in the game (optionally replacing boss bars with colour coded bars per active boss too).
WindLink
Adds a realistic wind engine that is terrain aware for shaders to respond to.
Entity Dithering
Adds bedrock-like transparency effect to entities. Compatible with any shaders!
PlunderEngine
A feature library that bridges the world data and expands vanilla and shaderpack visual capabilities within the world. Adds readable water, wind, particle data and broad mod compatibility.
Shaderite
NeoForge library to help modders with shader usage
Ultra Secret Settings
Client side mod that brings back Super Secret Settings with more shaders
WoM: Shaders & Overlays Effects
This small mod/resource pack adds shader effects when running WoM animations.
FramePace
Extremely simple optimization mod that fixes horrible frame pacing when the GPU is under heavy load. Mostly helps with shaders.
can-pipe
Minecraft Mod for loading Canvas shader pipelines
MapperPlugin
Provide more elements and features for the Map Creator, such as custom cameras, custom hud, custom interfaces, playing animations, adding post production shaders, etc
Particle Dithering
Adds dithered transparency effect to particles. Compatible with any shaders!
Veil Iris Lights Compat [VILC]
Veil light & shadow support for Iris + Shaderpacks
DynamicDisasters
Experience extreme, physics-based natural disasters like tornadoes and cosmic rifts in 1.21.1 – zero custom textures, fully shader-optimized!
Shader Carry Forked
Fixes Carry On rendering bugs with shaders for Fabric and NeoForge.
LowExposure
A post-processing shader that applies a low exposure effect to your game. (completely customizable!)
Just Glowing Buttons
These 16 Colored Buttons Glows/Emits Light. Best To Use With Shaders.
Item Dithering
Adds dithering to hand items for cleaner view. Compatible with any shaders!
PackPulse
Open-source Fabric mod updater that syncs mods, configs, resource packs, and shader packs from a remote manifest before you play.
ArtX
A decorative, building block mod
Flatter Signs: A Mode 13h Addon
A Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.20.1/1.21.1 that adds billboarding to signs when paired with the Mode 13h shaderpack.