Neoforge Mods for Minecraft 1.21
Browse 59 free Neoforge mods for Minecraft 1.21 — popular picks include Iris & Oculus Flywheel Compat, Colorwheel, Monocle.
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Iris & Oculus Flywheel Compat
Enable Flywheel's optimizations when use shaders.
Colorwheel
Allows you to use Iris Shaders with Flywheel
Monocle
An addon that allows Iris to run shaders using Embeddium
Accelerated Rendering
Entity rendering optimization mod. Fast vertices transforming and caching using compute shaders.
Iris Block Compat
Semi-automatic compatibility for waving plants and leaves in Iris shaders.
Enhanced Celestials Shader Support (Deprecated check description for updated version)
updated and working version: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/enhanced-celestials-2-shader-support
ChillCraft - CC1
Just a Chill modpack | Shaders | Distant Horizons | The best for your Minecraft phase | Enhanced Vanilla | Optimized
Iris Extension
An extension for the Minecraft shader loader Iris with some useful features for shader developers.
Aether Plus
☁️ Explore The OG Aether 👑 Conquer Multiple Bosses 🐦 Tame Moas & Fly them 🌱 Beginner Friendly |✅Co-op • ✨Optimized & Shaders
[ Spellnomia ] - Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks magic modpack
Master arcane mana and alchemy in this RPG adventure with Iron's Spells, mages, wizards, dragons, bosses, and grimoires. Explore dungeons, dungons, and biomes with opti performance, shaders, and immersive medieval fantasy sorcellerie
rrtt217's HDR Mod
Enables native HDR in Minecraft with Iris shaders.
Shaders + HDR
Enable native HDR in Minecraft with Iris shaders
NeoTech Reborn
650+ Mods | 400+ Custom Enchantments 📚 | 1000+ Mobs 🐉 | Magic & Tech Combined ⚡ | 1000+ Epic Structures 🏰 | Stunning Shaders 🌄 | Optimized for High Performance 🚀 | Everything You Need in One Pack!
Shaders Shaders Shaders!!
Yo u like shaders there's a bunch of em in this modpack trust oh and performance mods maybe a few qol too.
Iron's Magic
A lightweight Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks modpack with a little optimization, better grass, dynamic lights, and shaders.
Distant horizon + shaders
Distant horizon + shaders 1.21.3. Includes distant Horizons 1.21.3 with a couple of my fav shaders, and compatible client-side vanilla-friendly mods.
Inferno - Better Hardcore
An enhanced hardcore experience | +300 Mods | +200 Quests | Shaders | Optimized
Horror OneBlock
OneBlock survival with horror mobs, dwellers, guns, shaders, and Create automation.
create-ultimate-addon-pack
A Create-focused NeoForge 1.21.1 modpack built around Create and Create: Aeronautics, with a large suite of Create add-ons, performance optimizations, and Sodium/Iris shaders with Colorwheel contraption lighting — plus a built-in Korean compatibility mod.
Shader Essentials 2
Enhance your Minecraft adventures with a modpack that optimizes performance, streamlines inventory management, aids exploration, and provides essential crafting information for a smoother gameplay experience.
Virtua Frontier
Explore wide-open plains and treacherous dungeons in a performance-tuned adventure pack. Virtua Frontier blends overhauled worldgen, new structures, lightweight RPG progression, QoL tools, voice chat, and shader support—great for SMP or solo
Sci-Nilla Buff
Compatible with all Servers! This is a quality pack with no cheats, just good old minimaps, Animations, Ambience mods including Shaders and great performance!
NPLX - Modern Beta
A Vanilla+ modpack with a touch of Beta Minecraft feel, designed for our server. It enhances nostalgia with modern mods, shaders, and optimizations. Beta terrain is in client worlds, the classic charm remains.
Kryeit: Extra Enhanced
Truly enhanced version of the Kryeit Modpack for Season 3, featuring the essential performance enhancing mods whilst also adding shader support with the Create Mod.
MOTCraft server
MOTCraft has tech, magic, and shaders with mods to help performance
Create More Fps
Create but with High FPS — All the power of Create, turbocharged. Packed with every major Create addon, stunning shaders, QoL mods, and performance boosters like Sodium, Lithium, GPU Booster, and Entity Culling. Build bigger, run smoother, and create witho
Ultimate Vision Pack
Ultimate Vision Pack is a carefully assembled custom build that combines the best client mods, high-quality texture packs and realistic shaders to create a truly immersive and atmospheric Minecraft world.
Leaking Kitchen Sink
Tech, magic and structures filled with loot. Good performance and included shaders. No gated recipes!
Cobblemon - EXO Evolution
Pokémon-style gameplay in Minecraft with enhanced immersion and performance | Multiple versions | Starter-Kit | Shader | Enhanced sounds & visual effects | Multiplayer ready |
CleanCraft by ACUL [Neoforged]
CleanCraft is a Vanilla+ Neoforge modpack focused on performance, visuals, and quality-of-life. Featuring Sodium, shaders, Xaero’s map, Tom’s Storage, and more—it's perfect for builders, explorers, and smooth multiplayer.
MR32 Vanilla Plus Performance
The ultimate 1.21.1 optimization pack. High FPS, built-in Shaders, Fresh Animations, and the Essential mod to play with friends for free!
Bad Weather
Bad Weather transforms Minecraft with extreme storms, performance boosts, immersive sounds, shaders, and detailed maps — survive nature’s wrath in style
EarthWorks
MullV Earthworks is the official mullv.studio modpack for Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge, featuring custom 1:1 terrain, extensive Create addons, Sodium performance, Iris shaders, and multiplayer QOL for immersive survival on their servers.
Lod&Shader&Terrain&Replay
include DH,Iris Shaders,Epic Terrain and ReForgedPlay. Designed for enjoy scenery and make videos.
DynamicDisasters
Experience extreme, physics-based natural disasters like tornadoes and cosmic rifts in 1.21.1 – zero custom textures, fully shader-optimized!

Jono's Create
Create mod based modpack with other mods (e.g. Yung's Better Structures, Iris shaders, and Farmers Delight). This modpack is lightweight with Create's lates update, 6.0.x, Post Production.