OptiFine has been around for over a decade, and it is still one jar file doing three jobs at once. It adds dozens of graphics and performance settings, it reads…
Fabric goes the opposite way from Forge. The loader is a small piece that injects mods into the game and almost nothing else, which is why it is ready for…
You added a couple of Fabric mods, pressed Play, and instead of the title screen got a list of errors ending in “requires any version of fabric-api, which is missing!”….
The Fabric Language Kotlin is a special library that allows developers to write Fabric loader mods in the Kotlin language. Users will also need it to run these mods. There…
Stutter when you fly over new terrain, frame drops when you turn toward a big build, a fan that never stops: most of that comes from how vanilla Minecraft draws…
Does Sodium work with Forge? Officially, not with classic Forge, but yes with NeoForge. Since Sodium 0.6.0, released for Minecraft 1.21.1 in late 2024, CaffeineMC builds every version for NeoForge…
The popular Collective library is now required for some Fabric mods as well. Like the original version, it contains no content. At the moment, there are very few mods that…
With the AppleSkin mod, you can get much more information about different types of food in Minecraft. When you hover over any food in the inventory, it will display how…
Minecraft tracks three numbers for food, and the vanilla HUD shows only one of them. AppleSkin, by squeek502, puts the other two on screen and adds food values to every…
Minecraft Forge is the loader most classic modpacks were built on, from the 1.7.10 and 1.12.2 tech packs to the large 1.20.1 collections people still play today. It adds nothing…
The Iron Chests mod adds many chests to Minecraft with different capacities and properties. You can craft each of them by connecting a standard chest with one of the materials….
Cardinal Components is a popular library that you can often find in modpacks. It makes it easy for modmakers to add new entities and items to the game. At the…
