Eridanus Origin

Eridanus is a series of modpacks built upon Origin, the core base modpack designed to preserve vanilla gameplay while significantly enhancing mechanics, graphics, and overall user experience.

Every variant in the Eridanus series builds on top of Origin with the goal of bundling essential addons around a specific core mod.

Origin Modpack

Overview

The main goal of Origin is to elevate the core vanilla experience without introducing overhaul blocks or gameplay-breaking mechanics. It focuses on visual enhancements and essential Quality of Life (QoL) features.

Key Features

• Visual Enhancements: Advanced particle effects, custom shaders, visual effects, 3D textures, and more. The pack can offer a good visual improvement also without shaders to be light and aesthetic on low-end pcs.
• Quality of Life (QoL) Improvements:
• Automatic tree felling
• Automatic door opening
• Crop harvesting with automatic replanting
• Tool repairing using player experience points
• Conflict-free, pre-configured default keybindings
• Screenshot viewer in settings
• View mod list for complete mechanics

Performance & Configuration

• Balanced Resource Profile: Pre-configured for optimal performance out of the box.
• Distant Horizons: Configured to maintain smooth performance while supporting up to 256 render distance chunks (with pre-generation enabled).
• Shaders: Disabled by default for maximum compatibility, with popular shader packs pre-included in the settings menu.

Platform & Compatibility

• Loaders: NeoForge & Fabric
• Minecraft Versions: Target versions starting from 1.21.1+
• Parity: Maintaining maximum feature and mod parity between both loaders.

Aesthetic & Visuals

| Name | Description | 1.21.1 | 26.1.2 |
| —————————————————————————————— | ———————————– | ———- | ———- |
| 3D Skin Layers | 3D player model details | N / F | N / F |
| AmbientSounds | Immersive environment audio | N / F | N / F |
| Better Animations Collection | Improved entity animations | N / F | N / F |
| Better Clouds | Volumetric & customizable clouds | N / F | F |
| Blur+ | Background blur in GUI menus | N / F | F |
| Chat Animation | Smooth chat transitions | N / F | F |
| Chat Heads | Player heads in chat messages | N / F | F |
| Cinematic Zoom | Smooth camera zoom feature | N | |
| Distant Horizons | Extended LOD view distances | N / F | N / F |
| Elytra Physics | Realistic flight physics | N / F | F |
| Iris Shaders | High-performance shader support | N / F | N / F |
| Particle Interactions | Physics-based particles | N / F | N / F |
| Particle Rain | Enhanced weather particles | N / F | F |
| Shadow Drop | Entity shadow rendering | N / F | N / F |
| Smooth Swapping | Item animation transitions | N / F | F |
| Sound Physics Remastered | Realistic acoustics & reverberation | N / F | N / F |
| Traveler’s Titles | On-screen biome/area notifications | N / F | N / F |
| Wavey Capes | Dynamic cape physics | N / F | N / F |
| Wavey Hair | Dynamic hair physics | N / F | |

Gameplay & Mechanics (Quality of Life)

| Name | Description | 1.21.1 | 26.1.2 |
| ————————————————————————————————- | ————————————————————- | ———- | ———- |
| Automatic Doors | Automatically opens and closes doors as player approaches | N / F | N / F |
| Better Than Mending | Repair gear using XP directly from player experience points | N | N / F |
| Bottled Air | Craftable glass bottles that restore oxygen underwater | N / F | N / F |
| Full Brightness Toggle | Keybind shortcut to toggle night vision / full brightness | N / F | N / F |
| Inventory Tabs | Quick navigation tabs for nearby chests and inventories | N | |
| Nemo’s Inventory Sorting | One-click inventory and chest item sorting | N / F | N / F |
| No Animal Tempt Delay | Animals respond immediately when holding food | N / F | N / F |
| Quick Right-Click | Fast item harvesting and interaction with right click | N / F | N / F |
| Replanting Crops | Harvest mature crops and automatically replant seeds | N / F | N / F |
| Resourcify | In-game browser to download texture and resource packs | N / F | F |
| Screenshot Viewer | Integrated gallery interface to view taken screenshots | N / F | F |
| Stack Refill | Automatically refills hotbar slots when items run out | N / F | N / F |
| Thorny Bush Protection | Armor prevents damage when walking through sweet berry bushes | N / F | N / F |
| Tree Harvester | Chop down entire trees by breaking a single block | N / F | N / F |
| Xaero’s Minimap | Clean, customizable HUD minimap with waypoints | N / F | N / F |
| Xaero’s World Map | Full-screen interactive map with exploration tracking | N / F | N / F |
| Xaero Head Tracker | Displays player skin icons on Xaero’s map interfaces | N | F |
| XaeroPlus | Performance and integration enhancements for Xaero’s maps | N / F | N / F |

N: NeoForge
F: Fabric