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Capsaicin is a sleek, performance-first modpack for Minecraft 1.21.5 that seamlessly blends cutting-edge optimizations, eye-catching visuals and intuitive quality-of-life enhancements.

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Small / Light 53 mods
License
MIT License
Latest Version
1.0.0
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Capsaicin is a carefully curated Fabric modpack for Minecraft 1.21.5 that delivers rock-solid performance, stunning visuals and smart quality-of-life improvements. Whether you’re exploring massive biomes, running a busy server, or simply chasing maximum FPS in vanilla, Capsaicin gives you the tools to customize every aspect of your experience—no compromise between speed, eye candy or convenience.

Key Features

Performance Optimizations

Sodium + Sodium Extra: Low-level rendering rewrite for huge FPS gains
Lithium: Server-side logic optimizations to reduce lag spikes
FerriteCore: Memory defragmentation for lower RAM usage
C2ME: Concurrent chunk & entity processing for smoother multicore performance
Entity Culling & MoreCulling: Skip rendering of off-screen or occluded entities
Dynamic FPS: Automatically throttle framerate in low-action scenes
Fast IP Ping: Preemptively measure server latency for faster joins

Visual Enhancements

Iris: Full shader support on Fabric
Blur: Subtle UI & background blur effects
Falling Leaves: Animates drifting leaves in forests
ModelFix: Corrects broken block & item models
Zoomify: Smooth, adjustable zoom for scouting or screenshots

UI & Quality-of-Life Improvements

RoughlyEnoughItems (REI): In-game recipe & item lookup
Jade: On-screen entity & block tooltips
Searchables: Searchable inventories, chests & containers
Mouse Tweaks: Intuitive click-and-drag item movement
Clumps: Merge XP orbs to reduce entity count
Controlling & Controlify: Advanced key-bind visualization & remapping
ShulkerBoxTooltip: Preview contents of shulker boxes in your inventory

Immersion & Social

VoiceChat: Proximity voice chat for Fabric servers
Chat Heads: Floating avatars above players’ heads
Capes: Custom wearable capes
PresenceFootsteps: Dynamic footstep sounds by surface
JourneyMap: Real-time minimap & world mapper

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  • Architectury
  • BetterStats
  • Blur
  • C2ME (“Concurrent Chunk Management Engine”)
  • Capes
  • Chat Heads
  • Chunks Fade In
  • Cloth Config
  • Clumps
  • Controlify
  • Controlling
  • Dynamic FPS
  • Entity Culling
  • Entity Model Features
  • Entity Texture Features
  • Essential (“Essential Command Utils”)
  • Fabric API
  • Fabric Language Kotlin
  • Falling Leaves
  • Fast IP Ping
  • FerriteCore
  • Iris (Shaders)
  • Jade (Previously Waila)
  • JourneyMap
  • Krypton
  • LambDynamicLights
  • Language Reload
  • Lithium
  • Model Fix
  • Mod Menu
  • More Culling
  • Mouse Tweaks
  • Not Enough Animations
  • Presence Footsteps
  • Reese’s Sodium Options
  • Roughly Enough Items (REI)
  • Searchables
  • Shulker Box Tooltip
  • Skin Layers 3D
  • Sodium Extra
  • Sodium
  • TCD Commons
  • Visuality
  • VMP (Villager Marketplace)
  • Voice Chat
  • Yet Another Config Lib
  • Zoomify

Support & Credits

  • Report bugs or request features via our GitHub Issues page.
  • Full mod list & versions are available in mods.txt inside the pack.
  • Huge thanks to all mod authors and the Fabric community for their tireless work.

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