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A carefully curated Fabric modpack that enhances Minecraft while preserving its vanilla essence. Built for performance, visual polish, and quality of life improvements.

Overview

• Minecraft: 1.21.1
• Mod Loader: Fabric 0.16.14
• Focus: Performance, Visual Enhancement, Quality of Life, Vanilla+

Key Features

🚀 Performance First

Aggressive optimization through Sodium, Lithium, and other performance mods ensures smooth gameplay even on modest hardware while maintaining visual quality.

✨ Visual Excellence

Subtle visual improvements including animations, particles, and shader support that enhance without changing Minecraft's core identity.

🎮 Quality of Life

Thoughtful additions like EMI, Jade, and inventory improvements that reduce tedium without overwhelming the vanilla experience.

🌍 Enhanced World

Optimized terrain generation with Larion and William Wythers' Overhauled Overworld, plus new structures and biome improvements that feel like natural extensions of vanilla.

🏗️ Builder's Paradise

Extensive decorative options through Supplementaries, Handcrafted, and more - perfect for creative builders.

System Requirements

Minimum

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 21+ - Required by Minecraft 1.21.1
  • Adoptium (recommended) or any OpenJDK 21+ distribution
• Fabric-compatible launcher - Prism Launcher, MultiMC, ATLauncher, etc.
• 4GB allocated RAM
• GPU with OpenGL 4.5 support

Recommended

• 6-8GB allocated RAM
• Dedicated GPU (for shaders)
• SSD for faster loading

Installation

Option 1: Modpack File (Recommended)

1. Download the .mrpack file from releases
2. Import into your launcher (Prism, MultiMC, ATLauncher, etc.)
3. Allocate 4-8GB RAM for optimal performance
4. Launch and enjoy!

Option 2: Instance Import (Custom Icon)

1. Download the .zip file from releases
2. Extract and import the instance folder into your launcher
3. The instance includes our custom icon and auto-installs mods on first launch
4. Allocate 4-8GB RAM for optimal performance

Documentation

• Mod Overview - Feature-grouped summary of included mods
• Complete Mod List - Full alphabetical listing with all mods
• Visual Effects Analysis - Particle mod compatibility analysis
• Development Plans - Future enhancements and architecture plans
• Contributing Guide - Development setup and testing

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please:

1. Read Local Testing Guide first for complete development setup
2. Review existing documentation to understand our direction and curation philosophy:
   • Mod Overview - Our current mod selection and reasoning
   • Development Plans - Future roadmap and architectural decisions
   • Visual Effects Analysis - Technical compatibility considerations
3. Check existing issues before submitting new ones
4. Test changes thoroughly
5. Follow the existing mod curation philosophy
6. Update documentation as needed

Note: This repository requires several development tools (packwiz, tq, mrpack-install) - see the contributing guide for installation instructions before cloning.

License

This modpack configuration is released under MIT License. Individual mods retain their original licenses.

Credits

• Built with packwiz by comp500
• All mod authors for their amazing work
• The Fabric team for the mod loader
• The Minecraft modding community