Vulkan Enhanced
A modpack centered around the usage of the Vulkan rendering API, with several other performance enhancements. Also comes with shaders.
⬇ Download on ModrinthVulkan Enhanced
Vulkan Enhanced is a modpack centered around the usage of the Vulkan rendering API in Minecraft, rather than outdated OpenGL. Unlike OpenGL, Vulkan directly communicates with the hardware, giving a signifigant performance boost.
In addition, Vulkan Enhanced comes with many other performance-enhancement mods, and a few utility mods as well. Additionally, unlike other Vulkan-centered modpacks, Vulkan Enhanced comes with shaders! Thanks to the amazing work of xCollateral (the same person that also works on VulkanMod), Beryl allows us to have full shader support with Vulkan on some versions
Version support
Notices:
Not Enough Vulkancurrently only supports1.21.11through1.21.9, so other versions will useVulkanMod ExtraBerylcurrently only supports1.21.11. It is unknown whether it will be backported or not.
1.21.x
For users playing on 1.21.5 - 1.21.3:
There is a known issue where VulkanMod causes an out-of-memory crash at startup. Can be fixed by appending
-Dorg.lwjgl.system.stackSize=256to your game's Java arguments.
| Version | Supported | Shaders | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.21.11 | ✅ | ✅ | n/a |
| 1.21.5 | ✅ | ❌ | OOM issue on startup, check notice under 1.21.x section. |
| 1.21.4 | ✅ | ❌ | OOM issue on startup, check notice under 1.21.x section. |
| 1.21.3 | ✅ | ❌ |
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.3
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as Vulkan Enhanced 1.21.3.mrpack
- Download size: 13 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.