{"id":64522,"date":"2026-06-03T20:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/enhanced-vanilla-minecraft-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:12:47","slug":"enhanced-vanilla-minecraft-2","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/enhanced-vanilla-minecraft-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced Vanilla Minecraft (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p># Enhanced Vanilla Minecraft (+)<\/p>\n<p>An **enhanced version of Vanilla minecraft** using the _simply optimized_ modpack as baseline for **performance improvements**.<\/p>\n<p>![Distant Horizons &#038; Tectonic (optional version)](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/3f2581aa2033be1b10769d5cf627b1b921aa6bc1.jpeg)<\/p>\n<p>## feautures<\/p>\n<p>This pack also offers for **easy multiplayer** using either the Essential mod or e4mc.<\/p>\n<p>This modpack **enhances visuals, sounds, gui and atmosphere** by adding many little mods and resource packs.<\/p>\n<p>most notably:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; huge **performance improvements** (one of the best performance modpacks out there as base line)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; **Distant Horizons** and **Tectonic** world generation with **shader compatibility** (optional in the versions Tab)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; **Fresh animations** and **not enough animations** with **first person model** for more immersive gameplay (also more mob variants with fresh animations and addons)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; **better sounds** and **ambience** (birds, wind and lots more depending on biome and scenery)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; **smoother gui** and lots more to enhance the base game just enough to make it feel fresh and exciting again.<\/p>\n<p>![enhanced visuals](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/6149f2c593e6e7664da75851f29e47b0a2f374ec.jpeg)<\/p>\n<p>## modlist (most notable)<\/p>\n<p>Many more mods and resource packs that enhance Minecraft in this pack are for example the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advancement Plaques, Legendary Tooltips<br \/>\n&#8211; Ambient Sounds, Mambience, Presence Footsteps, Sounds<br \/>\n&#8211; Appleskin, Eating Animation<br \/>\n&#8211; More Mob Variants &#8211; Fresh Animations, Fresh Moves<br \/>\n&#8211; Animated Doors<br \/>\n&#8211; Better Clouds<br \/>\n&#8211; Visuality, Wakes, Particular<br \/>\n&#8211; Better MountHud<br \/>\n&#8211; Better Stats, Advancements<br \/>\n&#8211; Blur, Bounced, Icons<br \/>\n&#8211; Cameroverhaul, Camera Utils, Better third Person<br \/>\n&#8211; Chat Heads, Chat Animation<br \/>\n&#8211; Continuity, Entity Model, Texture, Sound -Features<br \/>\n&#8211; Fancy Health Bar, Held Item Info, Highlighter, Tiny Item Animations, Mouse Tweaks<br \/>\n&#8211; Immersive Thunder, Iris<br \/>\n&#8211; Jei, Jade, No Resource Pack Warnings<br \/>\n&#8211; Show me your skin, 3D skin layers, talk bubbles<br \/>\n&#8211; smooth gui, smooth scrolling<br \/>\n&#8211; Xaeros Minimap and World Map<br \/>\n&#8211; colorful containers, better flame particles, Banner pattern clarity<br \/>\n&#8211; Fancy Crops, Blinking Ender Eyes, Enchant Icons, Emissive Trim Armors<br \/>\n&#8211; Fast Better Grass, Mace3D, low shield and fire<br \/>\n&#8211; MinecraftTen Font, Refined Enchants, Tender Dragon<\/p>\n<p>![Icons](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/260a8bca4a2c8ee3ef0b804f7b6e2cee147c3cd9.png)<\/p>\n<p>## shader issues &#038; solutions<\/p>\n<p>Currently I can&#8217;t add the _Bliss shader_ on Modrinth, so you&#8217;ll need to add it your own if you want the beautiful atmospheric time of day fog you see in some screenshots.<\/p>\n<p>The _Super Duper Vanilla shader_ seems to currently offer no dynamic handheld light so if you want to have that while using the shader, you can add a &#8220;_dynamic light(s)\/torches_&#8221; mod your own. 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