Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 351 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Neon Lamps, Retro Horror, BodyHealth⚡Locational Health & Damage for Minecraft⚡Free & Open-Source.
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Neon Lamps
A mod that adds redstone controllable neon colored lamps that supports colored lighting with shaders.
Retro Horror
Combines creepy and nostalgic things to make a spoopy mod (has pre-installed shaders!)
BodyHealth⚡Locational Health & Damage for Minecraft⚡Free & Open-Source
Simulate health per body part | highly customizable | scriptable effects | raytracing | API & Addons
TridentPerf
TridentPerf is a Forge 1.20.1 (Java 17) client-side mod that pins game threads to P-cores, prewarms/caches OpenGL shaders, and live-tunes settings to stabilize frametimes in heavy modpacks, with or without shaders.
Psychedelicraft (NeoForge Port)
A NeoForge 1.21.8 port of Psychedelicraft with psychoactive effects, custom shaders, and full content progression
NMinimap - Serverside minimap based on core shaders
Serverside minimap based on core shaders
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QuickSortX [1.21.x]
A plugin that sorts your chest automatically
Veil Lib Mod (1.21.1) – Bring Custom Shaders and Fluid Animations to Life
Veil Lib Mod brings advanced rendering tools and modern graphic systems to Minecraft. It lets other mods create fluid animations, custom visual effects, and new shaders directly inside the game engine. This library serves as a shared technical base for projects that want to upgrade visual presentation and build bone-based entity animations. Features: Manages colors […]
Euphoria Prism Overlay Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Bring Glowing Shader Effects
Euphoria Prism Overlay Mod adds custom shader support for modded blocks, items, and mobs to work with Euphoria Patches. It includes a built-in resource pack that covers hundreds of popular modded materials. The mod also fixes rendering bugs on item displays and adds special visual touches like custom End skies and thick morning fog. Players […]
Velvet Frames Engine Mod (26.1.2, 1.21.11) – Play with Heavy Shaders
Velvet Frames Engine Mod boosts your game framerate when playing with demanding shaders on lower-spec hardware. The mod renders the world at a lower internal resolution and scales it back up into a clear picture using temporal upscaling. It gives extra headroom for beautiful graphics packs and doubles frame output with built-in frame generation. Features: […]
Radiant Arcane Phantasm Mod (1.20.1) – Cast Glowing Cosmic Spells
Radiant Arcane Phantasm Mod adds legendary astronomical spells for Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks with built-in real-time colored lighting and ray-traced shadows. This mod gives you powerful cosmic magic where each spell lights up surrounding blocks and casts soft shadows without needing shader packs. It also brings custom tooltip styles, floating combat damage numbers, and full […]
Seamless Flux Link Mod (26.2, 26.1.2) – Download Mods and Shaders Without
Seamless Flux Link Mod lets you download mods, shaders, and resource packs directly inside Minecraft without opening a web browser. It scans your installed files, checks for new releases in seconds, and downloads them in the background while you play. You can review all incoming files on a confirmation screen and apply new updates with […]
GUHAO's VIX Mod (1.21.11, 1.20.1) – Turn Every Battle Into a Cinematic Movie
GUHAO's VIX Mod brings graphics processing tools to Minecraft. This mod handles shader post-processing rendering to improve how visual effects display in the game. It helps call high-quality particles during action moments. The mod also supports cinematic camera angles during character animations, giving combat sequences a movie-like feel. Features: Adds a post-processing rendering pipeline for […]
Vulkanic Light Engine Mod (26.2) – Run OptiFine Shader Packs on Native Vulkan
Vulkanic Light Engine Mod lets you run standard OptiFine-format shader packs on the native Vulkan renderer in Minecraft. It reads existing packs directly from your shader folder, translates the shader code during startup, and renders graphics through Vulkan. The mod includes an FSR upscaling slider to keep frame rates smooth while keeping the interface clear. […]
Databank Mod (1.21.11, 1.21.1) – Add Custom Animations and Giant Multiblock
Databank Mod provides specialized rendering tools, custom model setups, and sound systems for modpacks and custom projects. It acts as a core library built to handle visual effects, multiblock mechanics, and massive world structures. Features: Loads custom post-processing shaders directly into the game. Lets creators add animated models for blocks, items, and mobs with mesh […]
OptiFine HD 9minecraft (26.2) – Run Smooth Shaders Without the Lag
OptiFine HD 9minecraft is the all-in-one performance, shaders, and visual-features pack that brings everything you love about OptiFine – and more – to the latest version of Minecraft. Boost your FPS, turn on stunning shaders, and unlock the full set of OptiFine-style features in a single installer, all with a free key. Whether you want […]
Glowing Emissive Ores Definitive Edition Mod (1.21.1, 1.20.1)
Glowing Emissive Ores Definitive Edition Mod makes vanilla and modded ores glow in the dark. It works right out of the box without needing extra shader or lighting mods. The mod loads only the ore textures for the mods you have installed, keeping your game fast and saving memory during startup. Features: Makes ores from […]
IR Lights Mod (1.21.11, 1.20.1) – Illuminate Your Builds with Cinematic Studio
IR Lights Mod brings a real-time light editor directly into your game world. This mod lets you place point lights and spotlights with real shadows, fog beams, and custom projector shapes through Iris shaders. You can adjust colors, brightness, and angles on the fly to illuminate your builds or film cinematic videos. Features: Light Editor: […]
Luma Light Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Give Your World Vibrant Colors
Luma Light Mod adds colorful lighting, sharp outlines, and a cartoon visual style to the game without needing shader packs. It generates glowing colors straight from block textures and paints skies with biome-matching tones. Sunlight shifts naturally from warm daytime beams to cool moonlight at night. The mod works directly on the client side, letting […]
Flashier Flashlights Mod (1.20.1) – Light Up Pitch Black Caves with Real Shadows
Flashier Flashlights Mod brings realistic handheld lighting and shadow mapping to your world. It works with modern shader packs like Iris, Oculus, Sodium, and Embeddium to cast detailed shadows that react to blocks and mobs. You can explore dark underground tunnels or night forests with a focused beam of light powered by energy batteries. The […]
Discontinued Shader Fixer Mod (1.7.10) – Enjoy Glitch-Free Shaders
Discontinued Shader Fixer Mod patches visual bugs in Vanilla Minecraft and several popular mods. It fixes lighting, shadows, and broken textures when you play with Angelica shaders, making sure everything looks right on your screen. Features: Removes the 30 frames-per-second limit on the main menu so you can set your own speed. Fixes the black […]
Focal Engine Mod (1.20.4, 1.20.1) – Run Advanced Shaders for Realistic Lighting and Weather
Focal Engine Mod replaces the standard graphics system in Minecraft to run advanced shaders. It works alongside OptiFine to give shader packs more control over how your world looks. This mod acts as a base for Continuum shaders, adding highly detailed lighting and weather effects to the game. Features: Realistic Weather: Adds thick fog, falling […]
Iris & Oculus Search Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Find Shader Settings Without Scrolling
Iris & Oculus Search Mod extends Iris and Oculus with a handy text box. It adds a search bar right into the shader options menu and the shader pack list. You no longer need to click through endless pages just to turn on waving leaves or change the lighting. You just type what you want […]
Blue Archive Halo Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Float Glowing Rings Above Beacons
Blue Archive Halo Mod adds glowing rings above your active beacons. This client-side addition changes how beacon beams look in your world by placing anime-style halos right at the source of the light. As you upgrade your beacon to higher levels, the glowing rings grow larger and multiply. It works perfectly with most shader packs, […]
PolyBlur Mod (26.2, 1.21.1) – Background Blur Effect
PolyBlur Mod adds a Gaussian blur shader to the background of all GUIs, which fades into give it a sleek look. Features: Updated buildscript. Migrated from ASM to Mixin. Fixed shader not applying blur. Fixed shader not applying blue. Migrated to OneConfig. Added ability to change strength of motion blur. Fixed framebuffer not updating when […]
Iris Shaders Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Optifine for Fabric, Shaders Core
⭐ New & recommended: Try OptiFine HD 9minecraft – an all-in-one pack that combines high-FPS performance, shaders, and OptiFine-style features (zoom, fullbright, connected textures, CEM) in a single easy installer. Iris Shaders Mod is a modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs. It is an open-source project that […]
Anemos Mod (26.2, 1.21.1) – Fullbright, Fog Control
Anemos Mod unlocks full brightness by bypassing Minecraft’s limits. It clears all darkness, works with shaders using a custom night vision system, and even neutralizes effects like Blindness or Darkness. Features: Overrides brightness limit (up to 1500 gamma) Shader-compatible fake night vision toggle. Cancels Blindness and Darkness visual effects. Adjustable fog per type (sky, terrain, […]
Rrtt217's HDR Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Unlock Brighter Lights And Deeper Shadows
Rrtt217's HDR Mod adds true high dynamic range lighting for Iris Shaders. It changes how the game handles colors and brightness, making lights look much brighter and dark areas look deeper. You get a much wider range of colors on monitors that support this feature. The mod also fixes the game menus so they look […]
LDLib Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Custom Rendering, Modular GUI
LDLib Mod is a libarary mod for custom rendering, modular gui. It provides a number of renderers, as well as a modular GUI frameworks, including emissive texture supports, custom shaders, and particle systems. LDLib Mod Download Links
Glow Ink Plus Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Glowing Wool & Carpets
Glow Ink Plus Mod adds a new use for the glow ink sac. Now you can combine wool and carpets with glow ink, giving them a glowing effect that emits low-intensity light. Features: Combine glow ink sacs with wool or carpet blocks to make them emit a soft glow-perfect for ambient lighting or shader-enhanced builds. […]
Colorwheel Patcher Mod (1.21.1, 1.20.1) – Get Colored Lighting Without Editing
Colorwheel Patcher Mod adds automatic shader compatibility for Colorwheel. It does the hard work for you by changing shader files right when you start the game. This saves you from having to edit the files yourself just to get colored lighting working. It makes setting up your game much easier and gets you playing faster. […]
9minecraft OptiFork (26.2, 26.1.2) – The Next Generation of OptiFine
⭐ New & recommended: Try OptiFine HD 9minecraft – an all-in-one pack that combines high-FPS performance, shaders, and OptiFine-style features (zoom, fullbright, connected textures, CEM) in a single easy installer. 9minecraft OptiFork is the next generation of OptiFine – a from-scratch rebuild for the modern Fabric and NeoForge loaders that finally brings OptiFine's signature performance […]
Mob Plaques Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Neat, Tiny Attribute Displays for Mobs
Mob Plaques Mod adds very tiny displays above a mob's name tag to show it's current health. Armor points, armor toughness points and air supply are also shown when relevant. However, if you are using The BSL Shaders, it may not work well with this mod. In addition, the air supply is also shown when […]
Monocle Mod (1.21.11, 1.21.1) – Run Beautiful Shaders Alongside Embeddium
Monocle Mod extends Iris with the ability to run shaders while using Embeddium. It links these two popular tools together so players on NeoForge get beautiful lighting and shadows. You need both base mods installed for this addition to work correctly. Features: Lets you turn on shader packs when playing with the Embeddium mod. Connects […]
Simple Fullbright Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Fullbright Toggle
Simple Fullbright Mod gives players permanent night vision without potion effects, shaders, or resource packs. Features: Permanent night vision effect without potions. Works in caves, underwater, and the Nether. Toggleable via keybind or config. Screenshots: Simple Fullbright Mod Download Links
Sound Physics Mod (26.2, 1.20.1) – Amazing Sound Shaders in Minecraft
Sound Physics Mod is a mod that overhauls Minecraft's sound engine to simulate reverberation, sound occlusion/absorption, and physically based sound attenuation. The sound simulation provides interesting aural cues; you'll be able to tell whether a mob can be directly seen and whether it's just around the corner or in a closed-off area with your eyes […]