Minecraft Java 26 Mods
Browse 773 free mods for Minecraft Java 26 — popular picks include Donut Shards, Socialismus, Nolantic Shader.
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Donut Shards
A configurable shard economy and reward foundation for modern servers
Socialismus
Improve communication between your players in a modern way
Nolantic Shader
A Modern Minecraft Shader for Minecraft 1.20.1
Slashy Swords
This pack redesigns every sword with a modern, smooth, and clean style, making combat feel sharper, sleeker, and more satisfying.
Reliable Name Tags
Lets you right click Name Tags in the air to change their name - a port of Convenient Name Tags to modern versions.
ModernChatInjector
Injects PlaceholderAPI placeholders into EssentialsX Chat and VaultChatFormatter.
Pink CPVP
Pink CPvP is a Minecraft Crystal PvP texture pack built around a clean, bright, and modern pink aesthetic. Designed for competitive gameplay, it combines vibrant crystal visuals with simple PvP-focused textures to create a smooth and stylish experience.
Simple Duels
A modern, lightweight Paper duels plugin designed for competitive PvP, featuring queues, kits, arenas, statistics, and clean GUI menus. Optimized for Paper 1.21+, with a modular architecture that is easy to maintain and extend.
VanishIUM
A powerful vanish plugin with animations, GUI, vanish levels, and fake/silent join for modern servers.
Pretty Dark UI
This Resourcepack makes the UI of the game darker in a clean and modern way.
Classic Combined
This mod creates a Classic Minecraft/Modern Minecraft hybrid experience. Recreates modern features in a Classic Minecraft/Alpha Minecraft style. Fully Survival compatible
Justzilla's Classic Pack
The classic look of Minecraft... continued! Justzilla's Classic Pack aims to bring back the nostalgic feel of the original Minecraft textures with all blocks added since 1.14! So what are you waiting for? Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition!
Orbital Railgun UPDATED
Orbital Railgun updated to modern MineCraft

Characters
A powerful NPC plugin for modern Paper servers
EssentialZ
A modern and highly configurable Essentials plugin similar to EssentialsX
Smooth Fonts 32x
Smooth Font is a clean custom font resource pack that replaces the default Minecraft font with a modern and more readable style while keeping the vanilla feel. It improves UI text clarity, refines chat and menu appearance, and works smoothly.
Daylight Shaders
A vibrant BSL fork blending semi-realistic lighting with a highly saturated, stylized pixel aesthetic. Featuring 16x pixel-locked shadows, it elevates your world while preserving the classic Minecraft charm. The ultimate retro-modern shader experience!
Cherry Reimagined
Cherry Reimagined is a modern Minecraft shaderpack focused on realistic lighting, vibrant colors, cinematic skies, immersive water, and high performance.
Core Teams
CoreTeams is a lightweight, modern, and highly configurable team management plugin designed for Spigot/Paper servers (1.20+). It features unique gradient-based team visuals, string-based IDs for custom team names, and a comprehensive admin GUI.
michael9r9r's RPG Loot (modern port)
This is michael9r9r's "RPG Loot, Mobs & Dungeons" data pack, working in 1.21.9 and later, with a few minor tweaks.
Black Pink GUI
A sleek black-and-pink resource pack that modernizes the Minecraft GUI with a stylish, high-contrast look.
XR's GUI
This is a GUI resourcepack that changes the GUI to fit with Minecraft's modern artstyle, while still having a similar feel to the old UI.
afterlife
A 32x pvp resourcepack for modern minecraft versions!!!
Better 3D Beds - Java Port
Better Beds redesigns Minecraft beds, adding new models, textures, and colors to improve their appearance and give them a more modern and updated design.
CinderFrame
found-footage horror shader for iris. a fork of complementary unbound r5.8.1 that lays film grain, a ps1-era dither, handheld weave, halation and a desaturated violet-shadowed grade over a modern renderer.
Vantex 16x
A Modern Dark Themed UHC PvP Texturepack
TreeChopperUltra
TreeChopperUltra is a modern Minecraft tree felling plugin for Paper, Spigot and Folia servers. Break one log with an axe and the whole tree falls with animation, auto-replant, leaf decay and player-placed log protection.
VelKoth
A modern, high-performance King of the Hill (KoTH)
Not Coldown
Lets the admin enable or disable player attack cooldown, switching between classic 1.8.9 combat and the modern system.
Modernica
Fork of ModernFix with hot reloading and over 10 new features for Fabric 26.x
Blue Paradise
Modern Resource Pack with blue theme and many addons.
Torches Overhaul: Reimagined
Modern 3D torch models with handcrafted flame animations and clean lighting.
Pupper Client
Pupper Client is a Minecraft client optimized for PVP, providing smoother gameplay and better performance with a modern Material UI design philosophy.
BetterVanilla SMP Plugin
A lightweight, drop‑in plugin made for cozy survival multiplayer (smp) servers with friends. Upgrade vanilla with modern quality‑of‑life features - no mods, just pure fun.
Translucent Shield
Makes Minecraft shields translucent with a clean glass-like look while keeping the original texture style. Enhances visibility, reduces screen blocking, and gives shields a smooth modern transparent appearance.

NeoForged Velocity Support
Adds support for Velocity's Modern Forwarding in NeoForge.