Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 6,919 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Puzzle, Starlight (Fabric), Let Me Despawn.
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Puzzle
Adds resourcepack features and a GUI to more conveniently configure OptiFine alternatives.
Starlight (Fabric)
Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Let Me Despawn
Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules. Say bye to pesky unintentional persistent mobs.
Fast IP Ping
Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses
Distraction Free Recipes (EMI / REI / JEI)
Automatically hides the recipe viewer when not searching.
Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks (SSPB)
Reintroduces vanilla-like smooth lighting to non-full blocks (e.g. dirt paths and how they have dark shading when directly next to a full block) when using Sodium.
Flerovium
Greatly improve your fps with virtually no side-effects on graphics quality
FastQuit
Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background!
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
Sodium/Embeddium Options Mod Compat
Adds compatibility for various mods through Sodium Options API
Modern UI
Modern desktop graphics application framework and low-level 3D graphics engine
Animatica
A mod implementing the OptiFine/MCPatcher animated texture format
Redstone Pen
Adds a pen to draw Redstone selectively and optimized, as well as signal repeating relays, and a Redstone logic controller.
Forge CIT
Ports Optifine Custom Item Textures to Forge
Sodium Options API
Config API for adding Sodium options with a better categories menu
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
Sodium Dynamic Lights
Multiloader port of LambDynLights that adds Sodium options integration
Despawn Tweaks
Optimization mod that fixes cases where mobs will be prevented from despawning.
Fast Item Frames
Supercharged item frames! Less lag, better performance, and now they can change color and vanish!
Create Better FPS
Improve your Create FPS, up to 50%
Chunky
Pre-generates chunks, quickly and efficiently

Chloride (Embeddium++/Sodium++)
Gives Embeddium/Sodium additional Performance and Quality features for a tasteful experience
Autochef's Delight
Support stacked cooking & optimize recipe-matching in Farmer's Delight
Crash Assistant
Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.
DespawnTweaker
better Let Me Despawn optimization | Don't allow mobs from spawners to despawn
FastCraft
A powerful universal optimization mod without game play changes.
Xenon
Forge port of the Sodium performance mod
Simple Weather
Providing an alternative, yet elegant solution for weather effects in Minecraft.
Very Many Players (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve server performance at high playercounts.
Polytone
Customize Map Color, Block Colors, Colormaps and Block Sounds, Biome Colors, Dye Colors. Supports Optifine format. For Resource Packs
ServerCore
A mod that aims to optimize the minecraft server.
Temporal API
Temporal API is the library for Team Temporal mods, other projects may use it as well.
BetterGrassify
Gamers can finally touch grass!? OptiFine's Fancy and Fast better grass implemented on Fabric and NeoForge!
TexTrue's Rubidium Options
An unofficial fork of FlashyReese's "Reese's Sodium Options", made to work with FML.
Particle Core
Particle optimizations: Culling, rendering optimizations, configurable particle-type-specific spawn reduction, and potion particle disabling. Compatible with Sodium, improves performance over Sodium alone.
Immersive Optimization
A lightweight entity-tick-scheduler for doubling your TPS.