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
