Krabin's Dirt & Soil

Archived:

This modpack isn't staying up to date, but it still works perfectly fine on version 1.20.2

Quick Summary:

My favorite way to play Minecraft: vanilla gameplay, but with optimized performance, quality of life features, and aesthetic upgrades. Works perfectly when playing on servers, as everything in the pack is primarily client-side (only affects you). Of course, feel free to add, remove, or reconfigure whatever you like, as this pack and its description are intended to be a source of discovery. If you have a question, suggestion, recommendation, feedback, or notice an issue, post it in my Discord!

Core: ⚙️

The Foundation for everything else

• Fabric API
• Cloth Config API
• Indium
• Sodium
• Iris
• Mod Menu

Performance: 🔥

The Current Leading Performance Mods - x3 FPS!
Referenced from Simply Optimized
I recommend allocating 2-4GB of RAM (≈2000-3800MiB).

• Immediately Fast
• Entity Culling
• Exordium
• Krypton
• ModernFix
• More Culling
• Concurrent Chunk Management Engine
• FerriteCore
• Enhanced Block Entities
• Lithium

Settings for Maximum Performance:

• turn shaders off or use a lighter one     - high impact
• lower render & simulation distance       - high impact
• graphics from fancy to fast                   - medium impact
• particles to minimal                               - impact depends on amount of nearby particles
• cap framerate at about 10-20fps above your monitor's refresh rate - can lower system thermals and improve framerate consistency
• disable/remove always-active QoL features (Auto Hud, Dynamic Crosshair, Ambient Sounds) - low impact
• toggle off FPS - Display and Coordinates Display when not using - low impact, less intensive than F3
• If you use NVIDIA, I highly recommend turning "background application max framerate" to 24fps in NVIDIA Control Panel. Does the same thing as Dynamic FPS mod but better.
• If you use NVIDIA and don't use shaders, Nvidium is an extremely effective performance mod you can add.

QoL Features: ➕

• No Chat Reports       - protection from losing account due to new report/moderation systems
• Continuity                 - connected glass
• Gamma Utils             - toggle see in the dark
• Lighty                       - indicates light levels for mob spawning
• GrassKiss                 - grass is ignored when using weapons
• FreeCam                   - gives an ability similar to spectator mode while in survival
• Zoomify                     - toggle zoom  
• ItemPhysic Lite         - items behave more realistically
• AmbientSounds       - adds immersive ambient sounds, such as birds chirping
• Xaero's World Map
• Xaero's MiniMap
• Coordinates Display
• FPS - Display

Resource Packs: 🌿

• New Glowing Ores     - glowing diamonds & debris (modified)
• Ore Grids                   - adds an outline to all other ores except copper (modified)
• Fast Better Grass     - grass blocks are green on every face instead of only the top
• Rain Revamp             - desaturates rain to look more realistic
• Seagrass Fix             - seagrass doesn't stick out of water
• Vanilla Tweaks         - a lot of small aesthetic changes that enhance the game

Shaders: 🌅

My Favorite Shaders that I actually play with because they're beautiful and are light enough to run well on my mid-tier pc. Makeup & Sildur's Enhanced are relatively light shaders that manage to look stunning, while Sildur's Basic & VanillAA are super light shaders that subtly enhance the vanilla look.

• MakeUp-Ultrafast
• Silder's Enhanced Default
• Silder's Basic Shaders
• VanillAA

Recommendations: ✔️

• First, configure your controls/keybinds to taste, as well as other settings.
  If you have already perfectly configured your settings elsewhere and don't want to manually do it again for this pack, you can simply copy your options.txt from your other .minecraft and paste it into the .minecraft of this pack (deleting the existing one ofc).

• If you want to play your existing worlds, copy their folders (found in "saves" in your .minecraft) and paste them into the "saves" folder of this pack.

• If you have already used one of the mods in this pack and would like to use the configurations you've already made, simply copy the config file of said mod and paste it into the .minecraft of this pack (deleting the existing one ofc).

• My preferred shader settings are in the gallery. If you would like to try them out without manually changing your settings, I included my .txt config file within the .zip of each shader, and all you have to do is move it outside of the shader's .zip folder into the shaderpacks folder for them to automatically apply.

• NOTICE: Lithium must have the following config to be compatible with GrassKiss and not crash the game (included in this pack): mixin.shapes.lazy_shape_context=false

Cool Stuff Not Included:

Not everyone may like these, so I didn't include them in this pack, but I think they're worth mentioning.

• Dynamic Crosshair   - crosshair only visible when in range to interact with block or entity
• Auto Hud                   - health, hunger, etc. only visible when relevant
• ClearDespawn           - items blink just before despawning
• Fresh Animations
• BetterEnd
• Distant Horizons
• Craftify
• Better F3
• Reece’s Sodium Options
• Sodium Extra
• Complementary Shaders
• BSL Shaders
• Bliss
• Solas Shader

Extra:

• To use Modrinth modpacks, use MultiMC, the Modrinth app, or another supported launcher.

• Install/Update Java (needed for all MC mods)

• Update Graphics Drivers (at least once every 6 months)
  link for NVIDIA users (strongly recommend NOT installing GeForce Experience bloatware)

• icon image source

• If you wish to use this pack as a starting point for your own, go for it! If you plan to distribute it, please be sure that it's truly unique and properly give credit where credit is due: name everything included and link everything that came from outside of Modrinth (not all of them require it, but it's a good practice anyway). If you use the same or similar performance mods and their configurations, please link Simply Optimized and state that you referenced it. Please include a link to this pack if you leave its contents relatively similar. Thanks!