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Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack
A lightweight modpack designed to enhance the Vanilla experience while being completely compatible with forever worlds (client-side only mods)
Quick answer
Which Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack release should I use?
Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack 1.2.0 is a complete pack release for 1.21.6 with Fabric 0.17.2. Install it as its own launcher instance. If the creator publishes a separate server file, make sure it names this exact pack release. 66 mods in this pack file.
Pack setup
How should I set up Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack for players and a server?
Use Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack 1.2.0 as the pack version. Install the pack as its own launcher instance. The creator’s listing does not name a separate server file, so check the release notes before setting up a dedicated server. Do not upload the ordinary client folder blindly.
A pack is a matched client and server setup, not one mod with an install-side label. Keep its release, loader, manifest and overrides together.
These numbers come from the pack file you chose. “Not labelled” means we don’t know which side it belongs on—not that it is safe everywhere. The file count is not a RAM estimate.
What are the server requirements for Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack?
Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack 1.2.0. Change the pack release and its contents or setup may change too.
The selected pack release is Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack 1.2.0. That file is for Minecraft 1.21.6 with Fabric 0.17.2. It contains 66 mod projects. The creator’s listing does not name a separate server file. Check their notes before using one, and do not upload an ordinary client folder or rebuild the pack mod by mod. A file count cannot tell us the right RAM, CPU or storage; size the server for the players and world you actually run.
About this project
What kind of pack is Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack?
Shady's Vanilla+ Forever Pack is a carefully curated client-side modpack designed to enhance your vanilla Minecraft experience while ensuring full compatibility with forever worlds (meaning client-side only mods with no world generation or other game altering changes). This pack focuses on quality-of-life improvements, visual enhancements, and small tweaks that make the game feel smoother and more immersive—all without altering the core gameplay or affecting multiplayer servers.
✅ Improved Performance – Optimized rendering and FPS-boosting mods for a smoother experience.
✅ Enhanced Visuals – Use of shaders (Complementary Unbound and Photon shaders included) and resource packs to improve the vanilla look. Patrix32x resource pack also included (disabled by default) for a more stylized look.
✅ Quality of Life Upgrades – Better tooltips, and UI enhancements to streamline gameplay.
✅ Vanilla-Friendly Tweaks – Features like zoom and minor fixes that feel like they belong in Minecraft.
Important Information and Tips
- Distant Horizons mod may cause decreased performance, especially during startup of a world. It may also disable some other performance mods that are not compatibile with DH. After chunks are rendered (can take several minutes) performance should increase. If performance is an issue for you, you can either tweak the settings for this mod, or disable it entirely.
- Photon is a shader that is installed by default. I personally prefer this shader over Complementary Unbound for both visuals and performance. Select it from the options menu to enable it.
- Complementary Unbound is a shader that is installed by default. Select it from the options menu to enable it.
Included Mods
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- [EMF] Entity Model Features: EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
- [ETF] Entity Texture Features: Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric.
- 3D Crops Revamped: Makes minecraft crops 3D.
- 3D Skin Layers: Render the player skin layer in 3d!
- Advancement Plaques: Replace those boring advancement popups with something flashier.
- AmbientSounds: Adds a rich ambience to the minecraft world. It supports custom engines and works well with mods world gen mods.
- Appleskin: Adds various food-related HUD improvements.
- Architectuary API: An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
- Balm: Abstraction Layer (but not really)™ for Blay's multiplatform mods.
- Better Advancements: Better Advancements tries to improve the UI and UX for the advancements system in minecraft 1.12+ in a modded environment.
- Better Beds: Changes the renderer of the bed to use json models instead of a block entity renderer!
- Better Statistics Screen: A Minecraft mod that improves the statistics screen and makes it more useful.
- Better Third Person: Improves third person camera view.
- Blur+: Spices up the boring vanilla blur effect – featuring animations, colors and lots of customizability!
- Capes: Lets you use capes from OptiFine, LabyMod and other cape mods.
- Cave Dust: Dust is a Minecraft mod that adds the white ash particle from the Basalt Deltas biome to the underground to simulate dust!
- Cloth Config API: Configuration Library for Minecraft Mods.
- Cobweb: Crystal Nest API.
- Complementary Shaders - Unbound: Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
- Concurrent Chunk Management Engine: A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
- Continuity: A Fabric mod that allows for efficient connected textures.
- CreativeCore: A core mod.
- Default Options: A way for modpacks to ship a default (key) configuration without having to include an options.txt file. Also allows local options from any mod .cfg file.
- Distant Horizons: See farther without turning your game into a slide show.
- Double Doors: Multiple identical double doors, trapdoors and fence gates can be opened simultaneously.
- Easy Anvils: Be ready for overhauled anvils! Items stay, better name tags, many tweaks!
- Easy Magic: Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.
- Eclectic Trove (Legendary Tooltips): Adds 10 various custom frames for use with Legendary Tooltips.
- Enhanced Block Entities: Reduce block entity FPS lag with almost no compromises, and improve their visuals.
- Entity Culling: Using async path-tracing to hide Block-/Entities that are not visible.
- Fabric API: Lightweight and modular API providing common hooks and intercompatibility measures utilized by mods using the Fabric toolchain.
- Fabric Language Kotlin: This is a mod that enables usage of the Kotlin programming language for Fabric mods.
- Falling Leaves: Adds a neat little particle effect to leaf blocks.
- FerriteCore: Memory usage optimizations.
- First-person Model: Enables the third-person Model in first-person.
- Forge Config API Port: NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.
- Fresh Animations: Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.
- Fresh Moves: This is EMF Player Animation resource pack. Gives fancy animations to the player entity. Compatible with animations from other mods.
- Horse Buff: QOL tweaks for horses.
- Iceberg: A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.
- ImmediatelyFast: Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft.
- ImmersiveThunder: A fabric mod that adds realistic and dynamic thunder sounds to Minecraft based on the player’s distance from the lightning strike.
- Inventory Profiles Next: Take control over you inventory. Sort. Move matching Items. Throw all. Locked slots. Gear sets! And much more.
- InvMove: Forge/Fabric/Quilt mod that adds the ability to walk around while in inventories.
- Iris Shaders: A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs.
- JamLib: The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods.
- Legendary Tooltips: Give your rare items a fancier tooltip! Also adds additional tooltip configuration options.
- libIPN: Inventory Profiles Next GUI/Config library.
- Lithium: No-compromises game logic optimization mod. Well suited for clients and servers of all kinds. Now available for Fabric and NeoForge!
- M.R.U: A library mod used by IMB11's mods to function.
- Make Bubbles Pop: Client-side mod that makes bubble particles pop and lets them rise realistically to the water surface.
- Mod Menu: Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
- Model Gap Fix: Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models.
- ModernFix: All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite performance mods!
- Motschen's Better Leaves: Improves the appearance of leaves with high mod compatibility and performance!
- Mouse Tweaks: Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
- Noisium: Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.
- Not Enough Animations: Bringing first-person animations to the third-person.
- Particle Rain: Replaces weather with prettier particle effects.
- Patrix 32x: Realistic textures with vanilla colors custom-made for shaders.
- Photon: A gameplay-focused shader pack with a semi-realistic style.
- Presence Footsteps: An Overly complicated Sound Mod.
- Prism: A library all about color! Provides lots of color-related functionality for dependent mods.
- Puzzles Lib: Why's it called Puzzles you ask? That's the puzzle!
- Reese's Sodium Options: Alternative Options Menu for Sodium.
- RightClickHarvest: Allows you to harvest crops with right click.
- Shulker Box Tooltip: View the contents of shulker boxes from your inventory.
- Smooth Scrolling: Smoothly scrolls chat, hotbar, creative inventory and much more!
- Snow! Real Magic!: Not a magic mod. · Snow Gravity & Accumulation · Snow-covered blocks · Tweak snow behaviors.
- Sodium: The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
- Sodium Extra: A Sodium addon that adds features that shouldn't be in Sodium.
- Sould Fire'd: Let Soul Fire burn!
- Sound Physics Remastered: A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
- Sounds: Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactions to UI events.
- TCDCommons API: TheCSDev's personal library mod for the Minecraft modding enviroment.
- Text Placeholder API: Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.
- Tiny Item Animations: Adds little animations when you pick up or insert items with your mouse.
- Visual Overhaul: Slight tweaks to revamp the visual aspect of vanilla.
- Visual Workbench: Items stay inside of crafting tables and are also rendered on top. It's really fancy!
- Visuality: Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
- Wakes: Adds splashes and wakes while traveling on water.
- YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL): A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
- Zoomify: A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
Project description from Modrinth.
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