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Vanilla Refined

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A curated collection of Vanilla+ mods that enhance performance, visuals, and quality of life while keeping the original gameplay intact.

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Vanilla Refined is a performance-focused Vanilla+ modpack designed to make Minecraft smoother, clearer, and more enjoyable—without changing how the game plays. Every mod is carefully chosen to enhance quality of life, visuals, UI clarity, and overall performance while preserving the original Minecraft feel.

This pack features major performance boosters like Sodium, Lithium, Krypton, FerriteCore, Dynamic FPS, EntityCulling, BadOptimizations, VMP, and Distant Horizons, ensuring high FPS, faster loading, and stable gameplay even on large worlds or servers. Quality-of-life upgrades such as AppleSkin, Controlling, Durability Tooltip, Gamma Utils, Searchables, Shulker Box Tooltip, BetterF3, Better Statistics Screen, and More Chat History help streamline the experience without changing the game’s balance.

Visual enhancements like Iris, LambDynamicLights, WaveyCapes, and Do a Barrel Roll, along with interface mods like Mod Menu, Reese’s Sodium Options, and YetAnotherConfigLib, create a clean, polished, and refined look.

Networking and stability improvements (e.g., PacketFixer, Debugify, Concurrent Chunk Management Engine, and Remove Reloading Screen) provide a smoother, more reliable experience both in singleplayer and multiplayer.

With Simple Voice Chat, Xaero’s Minimap and World Map, and compatibility libraries like Architectury, Cloth Config, and Fabric Language Kotlin, Vanilla Refined brings together the perfect blend of usability, performance, and immersion—while staying true to Minecraft’s core identity.

NOTE: 1.21.11 is lacking some mods on the regular list.

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