# Vanilla SMP Modpack

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* 🏆 **1000+ Advancements** — with rewards and trophies
* ⚡ **Better Performance** — runs great on just 2 GB RAM
* 🔊 **Better Sounds** — GUI sounds, sound physics, expanded Minecraft music
* 🩺 **Better HUD** — armor durability HUD, status effects HUD
* 🎨 **Better Visuals** — animations, textures, particles, atmosphere & animated mobs
* 🖼️ **Better GUI** — legendary tooltips, icons, custom font, chat animations, dark mode
* 🧭 **Better Gameplay** — Litematica, freecam, click-through frames, shulker tooltips, waypoint location bar
* 🧱 **Better Textures** — connected textures, refreshed vanilla textures
* 🎭 **Better Customization** — skin changer, cape changer
* ⚙️ **Better Settings** — fog control, entity render distance control

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### 🎮 Gameplay

* **Advancements** — 1000+ Advancements with Rewards and Trophies
* **Events** — Special plugin that brings live server-wide events
* **Fishing** — Makes fishing more dynamic: the catches depend on where you fish, weather, and your luck level. It turns every trip to the water into a mini-game instead of a flat random roll.
* **Items** — Adds special gear, tools, and consumables with unique effects.
* **Worlds** — Your gateway to fresh, random regenerated worlds in Minecraft!
* **Enchantments** — Additional Enchantments with unique custom mechanics, effects and magic
* **Teams** — Players can build a real squad: organize chat, unlock shared perks, and make teamwork feel connected
* **Quests** - Everyone competes on the same quest board. Be first. Grab the reward
* **Playtime Rewards** - Earn emeralds just by playing!

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### ⚡ Performance

* **Sodium** — Complete rendering engine replacement. Massive FPS gains with zero gameplay impact.
* **Sodium Extra** — Extra toggles for Sodium: animations, weather, particles — full control.
* **Lithium** — Optimizes game logic (mob AI, physics, chunks) without changing behavior.
* **EntityCulling** — Skips rendering entities behind walls and out of view. Big FPS boost in crowded areas.
* **MoreCulling** — Extends culling to blocks and foliage for even fewer wasted draw calls.

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### 🎨 Visuals

#### Shaders & Textures

* **Iris Shaders** — Shader loader for Fabric, fully compatible with Sodium. Supports OptiFine shader format.
* **Continuity** — Connected textures for glass, leaves and more — just like OptiFine.
* **SimpleFog** — Fine-tune or disable fog; add atmospheric haze at any distance.

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#### Animations & Models

* **Not Enough Animations** — New first-person and third-person player animations: off-hand holding, swimming, ladder climbing.
* **ETF — Entity Texture Features** — Random and variant mob textures. Required by FreshAnimations.
* **EMF — Entity Model Features** — Custom entity models via resource packs. Required by FreshAnimations.
* **SkinLayers 3D** — Renders the outer skin layer as true 3D geometry — hats, jackets, beards all pop out.

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#### Particles & Atmosphere

* **Visuality** — Adds ambient particles: torch sparks, bubbles, magical effects on mobs and items.
* **InventoryParticles** — Emits particles from inventory slots based on equipped items.
* **CoolRain** — Improved rain with splash animations on surfaces.

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### 🔊 Sound

* **Sound Physics Remastered** — Realistic sound physics: cave echo, muffled audio behind walls, reverb in large spaces.
* **Sounds** — Extended sound pack with new sounds for actions, mobs and environment.

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### 🖥️ UI & HUD

#### Menus & Loading

* **FancyMenu** — Fully customize the main menu: backgrounds, buttons, animations, music.
* **Drippy Loading Screen** — Stylish loading screen with progress bar, custom background and logo.
* **ModMenu** — Browse installed mods in settings with direct access to each mod's config.

#### Advancements

* **BetterAdvancements** — Redesigned advancements screen: smooth navigation, stats, search.
* **Advancements+** — Extra achievement hints and progress information.

#### Tooltips & Inventory

* **ShulkerBox Tooltip** — Hover over a shulker box to preview its contents without opening.
* **Dynamic Tooltips** — Animated item tooltips with smooth fade-in appearance.
* **Enchantment Descriptions** — Shows a description of each enchantment directly in the item tooltip.
* **TierTagger** — Colored rarity/tier badge on items in inventory.
* **ClickThrough+** — Click through signs and item frames to interact with blocks behind them.

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#### HUD

* **Simple Armor HUD** — Compact on-screen display showing armor durability at a glance.
* **EffectTimerPlus** — Remaining duration overlay for every active status effect.
* **Effectual** — Visual improvements to status effect icons and their layout.
* **Stendhal** — Better formatting and display of long text in books and chat.

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### 🧭 Utilities & Gameplay

#### Building & Navigation

* **Litematica** — Schematic tool: load a structure and build it block by block with a ghost overlay.
* **VanillaWaypoints** — Waypoints integrated into the vanilla interface — no bloated UI.
* **LocatorLodestones** — Compass can point to lodestones directly from your inventory.
* **Legacy Freecam** — Detached free camera for screenshots and scouting without moving your character.

#### Exploration

* **BookshelfInspector** — Hover over a bookshelf to see the books stored inside.
* **Spyglass Astronomy** — Point your spyglass at the night sky to observe constellations and planets.
* **Legacies & Legends** — RPG elements: artifacts, legendary items and unique abilities hidden in the world.

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### 💬 Social & Personalization

* **Simple Voice Chat** — In-game voice chat with positional audio, walkie-talkie mode and channels.
* **CraftPresence** — Discord Rich Presence showing exactly what you're doing and where in Minecraft.
* **SkinShuffle** — Switch skins without restarting; manage multiple skin profiles.
* **BetterCapes** — Custom capes: upload your own or pick from a community collection.
* **Chat Animation** — Messages in chat appear with a smooth slide-in animation.

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### 🎨 Resource Packs

#### Mob Animations

* **FreshAnimations v1.10.4** — Complete overhaul of every mob's animations: fluid movement, expressive faces, lifelike behavior. The flagship pack.
* **FA+Details** — Addon to FreshAnimations adding high-detail textures and fine surface details.
* **Eating Animation** — Unique eating animations in the player's hand for every food item.
* **AL's Enderman Revamped** — Enderman rebuilt for FA: new model, animations and menacing expression.
* **AL's Piglins Revamped** — Piglins and Brutes with detailed new FA-style animations.
* **AL's Skeletons Revamped** — All skeleton variants with improved models and Fresh-style movement.
* **AL's Zombies Revamped** — Zombies with reworked motion and detailing tuned for FreshAnimations.
* **AL's Scorpions & Crabs** — Spiders reimagined as scorpions and crabs with unique animations.
* **Drodi's Blazes FA** — Blazes with reworked models and smooth Fresh-compatible animations.
* **Drodi's Illagers x FA** — Pillagers, Evokers and Vindicators with detailed FA animations.

#### World Enhancement

* **Simple Grass Flowers** — Sprinkles small flowers and plants into grass for a lush, lived-in look.
* **Fancy Crops** — Crops (wheat, carrot, potato) rendered as full, voluminous plants as they grow.
* **Connected Bricks** — Seamless brick textures that flow across block boundaries.
* **Connected Paths** — Cobblestone and stone slab paths connect without hard edges.
* **Connected Rocks** — Stone and cobblestone form monolithic rock surfaces on large walls.
* **Vanilla Experience+** — Large-scale vanilla texture refresh that stays true to Minecraft's original style.

#### UI & HUD

* **Default Dark Mode** — Dark theme for the entire Minecraft UI: inventory, menus, books.
* **MandalasGUI Dark Mode** — Ornate dark-themed GUI with mandala patterns for an elegant look.
* **Numbered Hotbar** — Slot numbers on the hotbar for instant orientation.
* **Icons** — Improved icons for status effects, tools and other HUD elements.
* **TGK Enchants** — Enchantments displayed as clean symbolic icons on items.
* **qrafty's Capitalized Font** — All-caps style font for clean, readable in-game text.
* **Chat+** — Enhanced chat formatting with icons, dividers and better layout.
* **Wynn Ranks** — WynnCraft-style rank prefixes and badges in chat.
* **BACAP Language Pack** — Localization pack for Better Advancements Completion achievements.

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### 🌟 Shaders

* **Complementary Reimagined r5.7.1** — The gold standard for vanilla-style shaders. Soft lighting, volumetric clouds, realistic shadows — beautiful without breaking Minecraft's aesthetic.