Vanilla Finest

High-performance, vanilla-compatible modpack with far view and stunning visuals.

Vanilla Finest needs no power-hungry shaders and works well on macOS, too. It is safe for your existing saves and forever worlds, and connects to many vanilla server versions. You can optionally enable the "Bare Bones" trailer-style graphics and choose one of the finely tuned shaders that fits your system's capabilities.

• For classic Minecraft gameplay, use the Vanilla Edition.
• For an extended survival experience and creative build planning, choose the Creative Edition.

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✨ Key Features

• Vanilla-compatible saves: keep playing your worlds in vanilla Minecraft after saving them with this modpack.
• Your existing worlds: open and save worlds straight from your original Minecraft folder with the "1" button.
• Original vanilla experience with several quality-of-life improvements.
• Runs well on both low- and high-end machines, with OpenGL or Vulkan.
• Beautiful graphics with or without shaders (see the gallery).
• Optional "Bare Bones" trailer graphics.

Bundled shader presets

• Voxy with Atmospherics: beautiful visuals without shaders (see the gallery).
• Complementary Shaders: for the best graphics.
• Bliss / Eclipse Shaders: for a classic medieval mood.

Press F12 to turn shaders on or off at any time, or Ctrl + F12 to choose a shader.

🗺️ Vanilla Adventure profile

Create an adventure-focused world with Dungeons and Taverns and Grim Kingdoms: select the Adventure profile under More → Data Packs during world creation. Creative mode is not available in this profile. 🙂

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🎮 Editions

Vanilla Edition

• Vanilla world generation by default: nothing changes unless you enable an optional datapack.
• Client-side only: doesn't change your save files and is fully compatible with vanilla servers, so you can switch back to unmodded Minecraft without issues.
• Minimal gameplay changes: only small quality-of-life additions: crawl with a button press, better zoom, automatic Elytra/Chestplate swapping, and movement with an open inventory. Otherwise, it’s just vanilla, only nicer.
• Optional datapacks: Extra features come as optional datapacks. They're never added to your save files automatically and don't affect servers. They're only applied if you select them manually when creating a world or in the datapack menu: Dungeons and Taverns, Invisible Item Frames, No Enderman Griefing, All Mob Heads, Double Shulker Shells, Villager Names, Miniblocks, and slightly updated world generation with Geophilic and Mountain Peaks.

Creative Edition = Vanilla Edition plus…

Creative tools:
Armor Stands, Axiom, Big Sign Writer, Flashback, Head Browser, Litematica (with Schematic Preview), Name Tag Upgrade, Picture Mode, WorldEdit.

Survival convenience features:
A Minor Convenience, Accurate Block Placement, Better Happy Ghast Control, Cut Through, Debugify, Freecam, Gamma Utilities, Horseman, Jade, Nether Portal Fix, Reach Behind, Reacharound, Tweakeroo, Visible Trades, Xaero's Maps.

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⚙️ Setup

Everything is fully configured. Only minimal setup is required:

1. Disable conflicting settings: in the Modrinth App, click the ⚙️ gear icon in the bottom-left corner and turn off Window → Fullscreen, Syncing → Sync game options, and Sync resource packs.
2. Allocate memory: at least 6 GB, up to 16 GB on high-end systems. In the Modrinth App, go to ⚙️ Settings → Java and memory → Memory allocation.
3. Java arguments (optional): for the least lag, try:

   -XX:+UseZGC -XX:+ZGenerational -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem
   

4. Mouse sensitivity: after launching the game, go to Options → Controls → Mouse Settings.
5. Graphics preset: Options → Resource Packs.
6. Optional: on slower machines, turn off Enable Voxy in Options → Video Settings, or (recommended on Mac) set Options → Video Settings → Graphics API to Prefer Vulkan and restart the game. Voxy turns itself off automatically on Vulkan.
7. Optional (without Voxy): turn on Chunks Fade In in its settings (Mods menu → Chunks Fade In) for a smoother blend into the sky at the edge of the render distance.

Setting custom folders

• Screenshots: open Mods icon → search for Screenshot Gallery, click settings and set Custom Screenshot Directory. I use the original Minecraft folder, since that's where vanilla Minecraft saves its screenshots:
  • Windows: %APPDATA%\.minecraft\screenshots
  • Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/screenshots
• Litematica schematics: press B, open Configuration Menu, and search for customSchematicBaseDirectory. I set it to a %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Minecraft folder so Litematica can open any schematic from there.

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🌍 Creating a New World

• I recommend opening your original Minecraft folder with the "1" button (next to Singleplayer) and creating new worlds there, so you can also open them from the official Minecraft Launcher.
• You can create a world without any extra datapacks, but I highly recommend choosing from the Vanilla Finest selection: click the More tab, then Data Packs, during world creation. The datapacks are copied into the world's save folder, so they stay fully functional even if you open the world in unmodded Minecraft.

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⌨️ Keybinds

General

• J or clicking Scroll Wheel: toggle Auto-Jump
• Y / Z: crawl
• C: zoom (requires a Spyglass)
• Ctrl + Q: drop item (Q alone won't drop items, for safety)
• Ctrl + Tab: player list
• H: help (opens the wiki page for the block you're looking at)
• Right Ctrl: lock hotbar slot
• Left Alt + Scroll Wheel: set creative flight speed while flying and set walking speed on the ground (Vanilla Edition; in Creative Edition, Axiom uses the same keys)

Third-person view (F5 or V)

• Arrow keys: Elytra twirls
• Right Alt + Mouse: reposition cursor
• Right Alt + Scroll Wheel: change camera distance
• Tab: switch shoulder
• X: targeting mode

Creative Edition additional keybinds

• M: Xaero's World Map
• N: new waypoint in Xaero's Minimap
• Numpad +: quick waypoint
• ,: enlarge Xaero's Minimap
• B: Litematica (blueprint)
• K: Litematica execute operation (paste loaded schematics into the world)
• G: toggle Fullbright
• R: toggle replace mode
• Delete: clear WorldEdit selection
• Insert: toggle Hotbar Randomizer (useful when building with random textures)
• Scroll Lock: toggle Aim Lock (useful for screenshots)
• Shift + Caps Lock: toggle fake sneaking (keeps you from falling while building)

Function keys

• F4: Freecam (Creative Edition only)
• F6 / Ctrl + F6: Accurate Block Placement / Reacharound on/off (Creative Edition only)
• F7 / Ctrl + F7: next music track / Extreme Sound Muffler
• F8 / Alt + F8: Light Level Overlay / First Person Lighting on/off
• F9 / Ctrl + F9 / Alt + F9: Better Clouds / Jade / all nametags on/off (Jade is Creative Edition only)
• F10 / Ctrl + F10 / Alt + F10: minimap on/off / Atmospherics menu / own nametag on/off (the minimap is disabled by default in Vanilla Edition)
• F12 / Ctrl + F12: shaders on/off / shader selection menu

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🐛 Known Issues & Troubleshooting

• Fullscreen: Disable ⚙️ Settings → Window → Fullscreen. It overrides the pack's options.txt, and the modpack won't work properly.
• Sync settings: Disable ⚙️ Settings → Syncing → Sync game options and Sync resource packs, as they can interfere with the modpack.
• Euphoria Patches shows error messages in the End dimension. These can be safely ignored and will be fixed in the next version.
• Iris has a rare bug that can cause crashes. If it happens, disable shaders, load the world, then turn shaders back on.

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💚 Credits

• Thanks to ayden100 for adding features to Flashback Settings.
• Thanks to Vanilla Tweaks for allowing the use of their resource pack in Vanilla Finest!
• My 26.3 ports and mods are published with their source code and licenses on my GitHub.
• Traveler's Titles and Touch'n Motion come from CurseForge: Traveler's Titles, Touch'n Motion.