Minecraft Java 26 Mods
Browse 180 free mods for Minecraft Java 26 — popular picks include Vanilla Connected Textures, Cursed View, Fast Sleep.
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Vanilla Connected Textures
Connected Textures that don't require OptiFine or any other mods!
Cursed View
Curses your view! Curses yourself.
Fast Sleep
Instantly skip to day when sleeping
SCAN
Scan the space around you - each pulse of light shows you where you are...
LiDAR-S
Scan your world with LiDAR . . .
Fast Recipe
Adds quick crafting in the recipe book. Press [Ctrl + LMB] on a recipe to craft it instantly.
HUD - FPS Veltium
Displays FPS, coordinates, ping, time, days, and RAM usage – all in one informative HUD! Extensive customization and freedom of action.
Pollution 2035 Shaders
[WIP] In 2035, the world was severely polluted due to industrial emissions...
tuvefe aura warp liminal
Experimental shader that distorts the world with noise, creating a surreal and atmospheric visual effect. Compatible with Iris and OptiFine.
Blind
Simulates blindness with noise, pulse, and light distortion effects.
Simple Flowered Moss
Adds random azalea flowers to some moss blocks to make it look better! No OptiFine required!
Death Sound Plugin | UnstableSMP | Orbital Strikes
Death Sound Plugin like on the UnstableSMP with many features like Orbital Strikes and more
World Loading Tweaker
Allows you to change the spawn chunk radius of Minecraft, either speeding up loading or improving spawn quality

minecraft CRT
A simple customizable CRT shader with a sprinkle of analog horror.
Oxidizium
Rewrites parts of Minecraft in Rust Lang

Dithering3D
Pixelated, retro, Dark Fantasy, gradient, B&W, RGB and more
Bad WiFi
Simulates unstable internet streaming artifacts.
Am I Drunk?
Cursed drunk-like distortion shader.
Lost Signal VHS
Authentic Backrooms VHS shader with analog fog, YIQ processing, true interlacing, tracking damage, and the critical v1.8.1 Iris packaging fix.
AntiFirmament
Removes the dreadful packet Firmament attempts to send to servers (e.g., Hypixel), which shows your mod IDs when Fabric itself doesn't.
Zombie Horror Shader
A desaturated, horror-themed shader pack for OptiFine and Iris. Features atmospheric film-grain night lighting and automatically makes the eyes of zombies, creepers, and animals glow blood-red without needing external resource packs.
Elysis Hammers
A mod that adds mining and combat hammers with area effects and special abilities. Includes secret hammers, upgrades, and compatibility with other mods, all with a unique and optimized style for Minecraft.
Moar Bosses
Moar Bosses adds 7 types of randomly spawning bosses into your Minecraft world. Each boss has 3-5 unique and crazy magical attacks, and drop cores that can be used to craft magic wands. The bosses have custom textures using Optifine or Reselect or CET.

Those Were The Good Days! (TWTGD)
The Best Performance-Friendly Resource Pack To Bring Back Minecraft's Old Textures!
I Am Not Okay
Dynamic intoxication visual effects shader.
DebugGUIScale
Allows players to customize the F3 menu & "Always On" scaling separately from the built-in GUI Scale
NOIR
A cinematic black and white shader.
Auto Totem-Optimized
Auto Totem is a simple yet essential client-side utility mod for Fabric that automatically moves a Totem of Undying into your off-hand when you need it most, based on your health or a custom keybind. Never panic-swap again!
WhereWaterGo (Bigger Sponge)
Better Sponge, change & configure the Range and Amount of Water
Team Byte: The Backrooms (Client)
Our insanity is the limit. This is a client-side modpack for our MMO RPG Minecraft server themed after the "Backrooms" creepypasta.

TxFastLoad
(lifestealsmp.com) Makes your game load quickly, removes all loading screens, makes texture packs load much faster, so even if you join LifeSteal SMP, it will load insanely fast.
Colorblind Swap
Time-varying color perception remapping shader.
Datamosh
MPEG-style datamosh compression artifacts.
Cripe
Visual corruption and display degradation shader.
Backpack Smithing - Sophisticated Backpacks
Progression-based smithing for the Sophisticated Backpacks mod.
Asphalt
This is my personal modpack for vanilla activities; complete with my own cursed controls. It includes mods like Voxy and c2me-ocl which greatly enhance the MC experience. Perhaps you could use it as inspiration.