Marvelously Client-Side

Who is this modpack for?

Marvelously Client-Side is a modpack which focuses on improving the game's performance, visuals, and QOL without affecting any server-side features. For this reason, Marvelously Client-Side is perfect for both playing on vanilla multiplayer servers as well as "vanilla" singleplayer:)

To achieve the above, the modpack compiles a range of client-side mods and a curated selection of a couple of the most popular and performant shaders (disabled by default). This modpack is also what I personally use whenever playing "vanilla" Minecraft or while playing on a vanilla server such as Hypixel, Mineplex, CubeCraft, or the KIG Network.

Speaking of servers… this modpack also includes several of the most popular minigame and PVP servers already added to the server list, including the ones mentioned above and more! As well as some custom default keybinds and mod configs designed to ensure the very best experience and utility while playing on any of the most popular vanilla servers. All these defaults can be changed though and your personal preferences and configs do not get overridden by modpack updates. ✨

So… is this modpack up-to-date?

As of August 2026, YES!=D

Compared to many other client-side modpacks which have been abandoned, I intend to keep mine up-to-date following the latest new mod updates for as long as I can and until stated otherwise. Likewise I also intend to update the modpack to the newest Minecraft version, although do keep in mind that I might wait for some time after a Minecraft version was released depending on how fast individual mods and the majority of servers update to it. Nevertheless, in some cases I might consider supporting two (or more) Minecraft releases at once depending on the circumstances. Moreover, I test this modpack and its configurations extensively as this is the modpack that I personally use on a regular basis primarily while playing on vanilla multiplayer servers.

Modpack Version Info

Latest release: `26.2_1-CurseForge`, `26.1.2_6-CurseForge`, `1.21.1_1-CurseForge`
Currently supported Minecraft versions: `26.2`, `26.1.2`, `1.21.11`

Custom default keybinds (as of latest release)

• Sprint is set to R
• Changing perspective is set to L Control
• The Iris reload shaders keybind is disabled

Categorized list of contained mods

(as of version 1.21.1_1-CurseForge / 26.1.2_6-CurseForge)

NOTE: The list of mods, shaders, and configs differs slightly between the latest 26.1.2 / 1.21.11 release and the latest 26.2 release. This is because at the time of writing some mods and shaders have not yet been updated to 26.2.

Quality of Life

• Controlling - Adds a search bar to Controls settings.
• Debugify - Fixes various bugs from Minecraft's bug tracker.
• Stop Minimizing on Focus Loss - Prevents Minecraft fullscreen windows from minimizing when focus is lost (this matches the behavior of many other modern games such as Hytale, HOI4, or Cyberpunk 2077).
• Mouse Tweaks - Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
• Better Tab Info - Improves tab(player list) and adds extra client-sided information, such as TPS and numerical ping. Also implements a few fixes to tab. Now fully customizable!
• Mod Menu - Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
• Sodium Extra - A Sodium addon that adds features that shouldn't be in Sodium.
• Chat Patches - A Minecraft-Fabric client-side mod that touches up a few aspects of Minecraft's mundane chat.
• Emojis - Adds emojis visible by everyone to your chat.
• Held Item Info - Shows information (like enchantments) about the held item under its name.
• Default Options - A way for modpacks to ship a default (key) configuration without having to include an options.txt file.
• Crash Assistant - Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.
• Compact F3 Plus - A mod that replaces the vanilla F3 with a clean, minimal hud overlay.
• Better MC Screenshots

Performance

• Sodium - A high-performance rendering engine replacement for Minecraft, which greatly improves frame rates and reduces micro-stutter.
• ScalableLux - Optimizes Minecraft's lighting engine.
• BetterGrassify - Gamers can finally touch grass!? OptiFine's Fancy and Fast better grass implemented on Fabric and NeoForge!
• Dynamic FPS - Reduce resource usage while Minecraft is in the background, idle, or on battery.
• Entity Culling - Using async path-tracing to hide Block-/Entities that are not visible.
• More Culling - A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance.
• ImmediatelyFast - Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft.
• Lithium - No-compromises game logic optimization mod, useful for both single-player games and multi-player servers.
• Krypton - A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack.
• FerriteCore - Memory usage optimizations.
• BadOptimizations - Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering.
• ONLY INCLUDED IN 26.2! Better Block Entities - A Minecraft optimization mod for Fabric/Sodium that improves FPS / Block Entity Rendering by implementing a Hybrid Renderer.

Visuals

• Iris Shaders - A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs.
• Chat Animation - Adds smooth animations to the chat window.
• Chat Heads - Show players' faces next to their messages in chat.
• 3D Skin Layers - Render the player skin layer in 3d.
• Visuality - Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
• Better Animations Collection - Changing the in-game models to allow for better animations and subtle effects.
• Not Enough Animations - Bringing first-person animations to the third-person.
• Ambient Environment - adds ambient color noise to the biome colors of the game
• Fancy World Animations - Adds animations to a bunch of interactable blocks like doors, trapdoors, levers, buttons, jukeboxes but also swinging lanterns and much more!
• NoFireOverlay - A customizable fire or lava overlay mod that keeps burning visible without blocking your view.
• Just Zoom - Zoom by pressing a hotkey and adjust the zoom factor with your mouse wheel!

Sound

• Sound Physics Perfected - A Ray tracing implementation to have Sound Physics in Minecraft. I believe this is more accurate + sounds better than Sound Physics mod.
• Sounds - A complete upgrade to Minecraft's SFX with over 170 new sound effects for UIs, items, blocks and more.
• Presence Footsteps - Adds new and more dynamic sounds for every block the player walks on.
• AmbientSounds - Adds biome-themed ambient sounds.

Library mods (Dependencies)

• Fabric API
• Cloth Config Lib
• YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)
• Searchables
• Puzzles Lib
• Text Placeholder API
• M.R.U
• CreativeCore
• Balm
• Fabric Language Kotlin

Resource Packs

• Low Fire (by Oculie) - Lower your first-person fire to enhance visibility! (Included in older 26.1.2 modpack releases).

Special Thanks

• The creators and contributors of all the mods and shaders included in this modpack.
• MakeUp - Ultra Fast for being my all-time favorite shader, for having a stunning look with blazingly fast performance, and being open-source <3
• Complementary Shaders - Reimagined and Complementary Shaders - Unbound for creating two of the most well-supported, popular, and high-quality shaders out there.
• Oculie for creating the excellent Low Fire (by Oculie) resource pack featuring a more minimal on-screen fire texture that covers less of the screen compared to vanilla, and for actively updating the resource pack to the most recent Minecraft releases <3