BolderBrooklyn’s Vanilla+ Pack

A modpack of general enhancements to the vanilla Minecraft gameplay experience, both survival and creative, that maintains the original gameplay mechanics as much as possible!

Highlights

Performance improvements

• Lithium, Sodium, & Sodium Extras
• C2ME, Chunky, & Chunky Border
• ScalableLux, for lighting engine enhancements

Gameplay & UI enhancements

• Axolotl Buckets, for the cutest predators
• Better Advancements, Better Statistics, & Better F3
• Controlify, for controller support
• Xaero’s Minimap & World Map

Eye candy

• Capes & Wavey Capes
• ETF, EMF, & Fresh Animations
• Iris & Complimentary Shaders Reimagined
• Wildfire’s Female Gender Mod
• Zoomify

Tools & technical helpers

• Carpet Mod & Carpet Extras
• Freecam, for inspecting hard-to-reach redstone builds & farm interiors
• Lighty, for light level overlays
• Litematica
• Replay Mod
• Simple Voice Chat
• WorldEdit

Disclaimers

Each of the included mods is distributed unmodified and under the terms of its own license. I play with this modpack regularly and have verified that this combination of mods and versions works with Minecraft 1.21.4 and Java 21; it _should_ be safe to update mods to their latest release for the same Minecraft version, and I do so often, but your mileage may vary. If I run into any incompatibilities in the course of doing version updates, I will publish a new release with updated versions and mention in the release notes any mod versions that are necessary for things to work.

No configuration overrides are included, all of the default settings will be used when you first launch this pack and can be fully customized. I play on a relatively powerful laptop (12th gen Intel Core i7, 32 GB RAM, RTX 4070 laptop) with all mods enabled, as well as a handheld gaming PC (ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme) with some of the eye candy and experience mods disabled; if your computer struggles with the full pack, you can disable mods that you don’t use to try to improve performance. Take care when disabling individual mods, that you’re not disabling one that’s a dependency for something else!

Carpet Mod & Carpet Extra

As of pack version 1.21.4.1, Carpet Mod and Carpet Extra are included as JAR files in the downloadable pack, because the versions of these mods available on Modrinth are not compatible with Minecraft 1.21.4. The included JAR files are unmodified from the latest public releases on each project’s GitHub page (linked in the full mods list below), and are distributed under the terms of the MIT License (Carpet Mod) and GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 (Carpet Extra).

Full contents list

Links, version numbers, and creator attributions for each of the included mods, resource packs, and shader pack.