Vanilla by ItsRomik

🌿 The Idea

Vanilla by ItsRomik started as a personal modpack made just for me and my friends.
The goal was simple — show how great Minecraft can look and feel with the right client-side mods, while keeping the original vanilla gameplay.

This modpack doesn’t try to change Minecraft.
Instead, it carefully improves the experience with quality-of-life features, visual enhancements, and performance optimizations.

The result is a clean Vanilla+ experience that feels familiar, but smoother, prettier, and more comfortable to play.

Creating a custom resource pack

⚙️ Performance

The modpack includes multiple performance improvements to make the game run much smoother:

• 🚀 Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore — major FPS and memory optimizations
• 🌐 Krypton, Packet Fixer — network optimizations
• 👁 EntityCulling, MoreCulling, SmartParticles — reduce unnecessary rendering
• 📦 ImmediatelyFast — faster UI rendering

🎨 Visual Improvements

Minecraft becomes more alive and atmospheric with many subtle visual upgrades:

• ☁️ Better Clouds — beautiful dynamic clouds
• 🌧 Particle Rain and Particular — improved particles and weather
• 💥 Explosive Enhancement — new explosion animations
• 🌬 Windy — wind particles in the sky
• 💡 LambDynamicLights — dynamic lighting
• 🎭 Entity Model Features & Entity Texture Features — dynamic entity models and textures

Shader support is also included via Iris.

🧭 Interface & Information

Several mods improve the interface and provide useful gameplay information:

• 📊 Better Statistics Screen — expanded statistics
• 🎯 Advancements Reloaded — improved advancements screen
• 🍎 AppleSkin — hunger and saturation information
• 🔎 Jade — information about blocks and entities
• 📋 BetterF3 — customizable debug screen

🧰 Quality of Life

Many small improvements make everyday gameplay much more comfortable:

• 📦 Inventory Profiles Next — inventory sorting and tools
• 🖱 Mouse Tweaks — better inventory mouse controls
• 📦 Shulker Box Tooltip — preview shulker contents
• 🔍 Chest Tracker — search through containers
• 🔧 Controlling — keybind search

🗺 Exploration

Navigation and exploration are easier with:

• 🗺 Xaero's Minimap
• 🌍 Xaero's World Map
• 🔭 Zoomify

🎮 Multiplayer & Social

For playing with friends:

• 🎙 Simple Voice Chat — proximity voice chat
• 😊 Emotecraft — player emotes
• 💬 Emoji Type — emojis in chat
• 👥 Highlighted Friends — highlight friends in the player list

🧱 Building Tools

Builders also get useful tools:

• 🧩 Litematica — schematic holograms
• 👁 SchematicPreview — schematic preview
• 💡 Lighty — spawnable area overlay