🔍 ZoomEx
ZoomEx is a lightweight, highly optimized client-side mod that adds a smooth cinematic camera zoom to Minecraft. Inspired by classic features like OptiFine zoom, it provides a seamless transition without bloating your game.
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✨ Features:
- Smooth Camera Animation: The camera smoothly glides in and out instead of abruptly snapping, giving you a premium, cinematic feel.
- Cinematic Mouse Smoothness: Automatically enables smooth mouse tracking while zooming, making it easy to look at distant objects.
- FPS-Independent Smoothness: Uses delta-time calculations to ensure the zoom speed remains perfectly identical whether you play at 30 FPS or 300 FPS.
- 100% Client-Side: This mod runs entirely on your computer. It is completely safe for multiplayer and does not need to be installed on the server!
- No Dependencies: Completely standalone. Just drop it into your mods folder and play.
🎮 How to Use:
- Open Minecraft and go to Options -> Controls -> Key Binds.
- Scroll down to find the ZoomKey.
- Bind your preferred key (Default might need to be set).
- Hold the key to smoothly zoom in, release it to smoothly zoom out!
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.19.2
- 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.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as zoomforforge-1.0.0-forge-1.19.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 13 KB
- Download link checked 24 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.