Captain Ratax’s Vanilla Modpack

A vanilla-friendly Fabric modpack built around the way I like to play Minecraft, whether in single-player or on vanilla and mostly vanilla multiplayer servers. It focuses on performance, visuals, ambience, building tools, navigation, quality of life, and a cleaner overall experience.

Updated for Minecraft 26.3, it keeps the core gameplay and progression intact while making the game smoother, prettier, more immersive, and more convenient to play.

Current Minecraft version: 26.3

Links

• captainratax.com

Highlights

Performance

Improves rendering efficiency, chunk loading, memory usage, entity rendering, and overall game responsiveness through a selection of performance and optimization mods.

Sodium, Lithium, C2ME, Entity Culling, BadOptimizations, and other optimizations help make the game smoother, while Voxy provides additional distant terrain rendering capabilities.

Actual performance depends on hardware, settings, and the combination of enabled features.

Visuals

Enhances Minecraft with improved entity and first-person animations, dynamic lighting, particles, weather effects, entity models, armor details, environmental effects, and shader support.

Fresh Animations and its extensions, together with mods such as EMF, ETF, Not Enough Animations, Subtle Effects, and Iris, add visual polish while keeping the experience close to the vanilla style.

Additional resource packs improve block models, textures, lighting details, items, and interface elements.

Building & Tools

Includes a comprehensive selection of building and creative tools, including Litematica, Litematica Printer, Axiom, WorldEdit, accurate block placement, configurable HUD overlays, and building information.

These tools make planning, designing, constructing, and managing larger projects more convenient.

Some advanced building features are intended for creative workflows or may require appropriate permissions and server-side support in multiplayer.

Quality of Life

Adds improved advancement and statistics screens, recipe browsing, inventory and bundle management, configurable controls, map utilities, customizable interfaces, safer world deletion, additional HUD information, and other useful client-side conveniences.

The focus is on reducing unnecessary friction while preserving the familiar Minecraft experience.

Audio & Atmosphere

Enhances footsteps, environmental audio, interface sounds, music notifications, and subtle atmospheric effects.

Together with improved particles, weather visuals, and environmental animations, these additions make exploration and everyday gameplay feel more immersive.

Multiplayer

Includes proximity voice chat, multiplayer utilities, player tracking and map-sharing features, social interactions, and support for vanilla and mostly vanilla servers.

Most included features work client-side. Some functionality, such as Simple Voice Chat, synchronized PatPat interactions, and certain building or multiplayer utilities, requires compatible server-side support.

Included Content

Shaders

• Complementary Shaders – Reimagined

Resource Packs

• 3D Default
• Better Lanterns
• Enchanted Books: Re-covered
• Fresh Animations
• Fresh Animations: Classic Horses
• Fresh Animations: Creepers
• Fresh Animations: Details
• Fresh Animations: Emissive
• Fresh Animations: Objects
• Fresh Animations: Player Extension
• Fresh Animations: Quivers
• Fresh Animations: Spiders
• Fresh Food
• Glowing 3D Armor
• Hyper Punchy
• New Glowing Ores
• qrafty’s Capitalized Font
• Recolourful Containers GUI + HUD (DARK)
• Refined Buckets
• Torches Reimagined

Performance & Optimization

• Alternate Current
• BadOptimizations
• Better Block Entities
• Clumps
• Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
• Debugify
• Dynamic FPS
• Entity Culling
• Lithium
• Sodium
• voxy
• Voxygen

Visuals, Animations & Immersion

• 3D Skin Layers
• [[EMF] Entity Model Features](https://modrinth.com/mod/entity-model-features)
• [[ETF] Entity Texture Features](https://modrinth.com/mod/entitytexturefeatures)
• Camera Overhaul
• Continuity
• Cool Rain
• Elytra Contrails Mod
• Explosive Enhancement
• Falling Leaves
• [Fancy World Animations [FWA]](https://modrinth.com/mod/fwa)
• Iris Shaders
• LambDynamicLights – Dynamic Lights
• No Fog
• Not Enough Animations
• Particle Effects
• Punchy!
• Subtle Effects
• Wakes

Audio & Atmosphere

• Music Notification
• Presence Footsteps
• Raise Sound Limit Simplified
• Sounds

UI, HUD & Menus

• AppleSkin
• Better Advancements
• Better Mount HUD
• Better Saved Hotbars Forked
• Better Statistics Screen
• BetterF3
• Boat Item View
• [Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]](https://modrinth.com/mod/chatanimation)
• Chat Heads
• Controlling
• Cubes Without Borders
• Dark Loading Screen
• Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed
• EclipseUI
• Immersive Hotbar
• Info Overlay
• Just Enough Items (JEI)
• Legendary Tooltips
• Mod Menu
• More Chat History
• Pickup Notifications
• Resourcify
• Respackopts
• Searchables
• Smooth Gui
• Smooth Scrolling
• Status Effect Bars

Utility, Building & Quality of Life

• Accurate Block Placement Reborn
• Axiom
• Bundles Beyond
• Client Tweaks
• Cut Through
• Delete Worlds To Trash
• Freecam
• Inventory Profiles Next
• Jade 🔍
• Litematica
• Litematica Printer
• MiniHUD
• Mouse Tweaks
• Take It Out — Minecraft Mod (Shulker Picking + Easy Place)
• WorldEdit

Maps, Navigation & Tracking

• Locator Heads
• Map Distance Fix
• Xaero’s Minimap
• Xaero’s World Map
• XaeroShare

Social & Multiplayer

• Essential Mod
• [PatPat [Mod & Plugin]](https://modrinth.com/mod/patpat)
• Simple Voice Chat

Libraries & Dependencies

• Balm
• CICADA
• Cloth Config API
• CreativeCore
• Fabric API
• Fabric Language Kotlin
• Forge Config API Port
• Fzzy Config
• Iceberg
• Konkrete
• libIPN
• LibJF
• MaLiLib
• Melody
• MezzConfig
• MidnightLib
• MRU
• Prism
• Puzzles Lib
• TCDCommons API
• Text Placeholder API
• WATERMeDIA: Multimedia API
• WATERMEDIA: Multimedia Binaries
• YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)