Vanilla Upgrades
A resource pack to enhance the vanilla experience, adding animations to items, and adding small tweaks to gold and diamond tools.
⬇ Download on Modrinth
Vanilla Upgrades brings the game's items and weapons to life with new animations, and different styles of weapons in a 16x vanilla style, similar to Vanilla Tweaks.
This pack brings some small tweaks to gold and diamond tools, by adding extra shine and polish:
Here's a taste of some of the animations that this pack includes:
The old weapon designs in this pack are highly inspired by Daniel Kraft, and the axe designs are extremely inspired by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSarnW8lv2s&t=14s , so huge credit to him, go and check him out.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.6
- How to install: Download the .zip resource pack — do not unzip it. → Put it in .minecraft/resourcepacks. → Enable it in Options → Resource Packs.
- 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 resource packs walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as VanillaUpgrades-2.4.2.zip
- Download size: 83 KB
- Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.