Minecraft Java 26 Mods
Browse 158 free mods for Minecraft Java 26 — popular picks include Sponge Crafting, Ocean Breaths, Mako Mermaids Mod.
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Sponge Crafting
Adds a vanilla-friendly, ocean-themed crafting recipe for the uncraftable Sponge block.
Ocean Breaths
Catch oxygen bubbles generated in oceans and stay longer underwater.
Mako Mermaids Mod
Live your H2O dream! Play as Cleo, Emma, Rikki or Mako characters, use elemental powers, and create your own story!
MxSxC1 No Particles
This removes the following particles: Buff Effects Rain Splashes Underwater Bubbles
Heart of the sea recipe
Now you can craft your own heart of the sea
Zenith Shaders
A lightweight, highly optimized shaderpack focusing on soft procedural 3D clouds, immersive underwater distortion, cozy light-source blooming, and beautifully balanced, non-blinding exposures for day and night.
Ultimate Nausea
This shader makes far-away objects appear to spin.
Sunken Treasure
Digging sand underwater with a fortune tool can uncover buried treasures, or a nasty surprise! Who knows, maybe you'll even find some old love letters.
FogBeGone
Tweak underwater, lava fogs, disable status effect fogs (Blindness & Darkness), and remove Overworld, Nether, End environmental fogs as well as border fog. In short: no fog!
The Only Isle
The Only Isle creates a compact, natural island world surrounded by an endless deep ocean, featuring a rich variety of dense biomes for players who enjoy the “limited world” experience. It offers a feel reminiscent of the legacy console editions!
Deep Blue: Ocean Survival
Survive a post-apocalyptic world submerged by water in a nearly vanilla experience.
New Tools
Adds 20 New Tool recipes made out of 4 new materials: Resin, Amethyst, Sea stuff and Sculk
AcidIsland - Toxic SkyBlock
SkyBlock with a deadly twist: the ocean is acid. Survive on your island, but don't fall in the water.
Karma Shader Nightmare
A cinematic horror Minecraft shader pack that turns the dark into a living threat. Features dynamic fear mechanics, hallucination warping, drifting fog banks, a blood moon, desaturated colors, and its terrifying inverted sea ceiling.
Aquatic Torches Renewed
Torches made from glowing squids that can be used underwater!

Water World - Atolls
Water World - Atolls is an immersive Minecraft mod (Fabric) that breathes life into ocean biomes by introducing procedurally generated Atoll structures, complete with custom villager AI behaviors, dynamic fishing, and unique blocks to ease water buildin
Wearable Lanterns (Unofficial Port)
Wearable Lanterns is a vanilla-friendly mod that lets you equip lanterns for hands-free lighting while adventuring, mining, and exploring dark caves. It also includes waterproof encased lanterns for underwater exploration.
Pets Load Chunks
Loads the chunks tamed pets are in, enabling use of them as chunk loaders while they're sitting around and fixing teleportation across oceans.
Montane
Elevation based biomes, taller mountains, deeper oceans, and more!
Vulcade
Post-processing shader packs that run on Minecraft's Vulkan renderer. Bloom, sun glare, volumetric light shafts, ore glow, plus dedicated underwater, Nether and End looks — with Low/Medium/High/Ultra profiles.
Grassidium
Makes plants alive! Grass, flowers, underwater, and modded plants spread and grow dynamically based on their environment.
Sharky's Additions
Large Collection of Resource Packs and Nice Aesthetic Changes
Sea of Steves
Boat battle plugin for Minecraft servers
Big Globe Compat - YUNG's Better Ocean Monument
This datapack adds compatibility between YUNG's Better Ocean Monument and Big Globe.
Fish Rework - Fishing
A plugin that reworks the fishing mechanic, by fishing up unique sea creatures instead of normal fish. Custom drops, items, armor, weapons, skill progression, recipes, custom GUI, advancements, artifacts and more.
Aqualung
The recipe combines glass, a nautilus shell and a turtle scute to create a useful diving item for long underwater trips.
Total Water World
Raises sea level to y=200 & removes all non-ocean biomes.
Shark's PVP texture pack
This PvP texture pack adds and changes all classic PvP items (see image) to a sea/shark theme
Forgotten Tides
Reimagines Minecraft's sea creatures. Requires Fresh Animations.
Soggy Cat Compasses and Clock
Turns the default Minecraft compasses and clock into Shark (soggycat)
Desert Only
Desert and badlands biomes only, no oceans unlike a single biome world
Subtle Guardian Beams
Makes Guardian Beams more subtle. Perfect for clearing out ocean monuments. I recommend turning Particles to Decreased or Minimal to remove bubbles.
Drought – Waterless Worldgen
Removes all naturally generated water from the Overworld. No oceans, rivers, lakes, or cave water. Some structures may still contain limited water for balance.
Water Pump
Water Pump is a simple utility mod that lets you quickly remove large volumes of water from lakes, reservoirs, underground chambers, and even the ocean floor.
Old Continents Slider
Remember when Minecraft had real oceans? Until 1.6.4, the world was big continents floating in a huge ocean. Since 1.7.2, it's an infinite landmass with elongated lakes.
Sharks!
Turns the Nautilus into a Shark