Almost Vanilla

Almost Vanilla is a modpack aiming to improve the minecraft experience through performance optimisations, quality of life changes and additions, shaders support, world hosting support, and more. The pack attempts to add features which should be in the vanilla game without making it feel too modded.

In order to improve the builder’s lives, the pack adds:

• Better third person cameras, to allow greater views of the landscape as well as zooming capabilities for those larger projects
• Improved visuals through shaders, better texture packs for the environment, and connected block textures (configurable)
• Carry on, chest sorting, and stacking to nearby chests, to improve organization for those extra large projects
• Better block placement option for getting blocks in those pesky areas.
  Connectable chains, placeable ores, and more
• More blocks and varients

In order to improve the adventurers and miners lives the pack adds:

• Distant Horizons for a more immersive and grand experience (note that solas, and rethinking voxels shaders are not compatible/buggy with distant horizons)
• Item borders to help show the rarity of items.
• Extra Animations, particles, plants, and animal variants
• Graves in case you die on your journey (configurable)
• Ore borders (resource pack)
• Sound physics to make caves even more immersive
• Improved ambient sounds which transport you into the game
• Journeymap to track your adventures

General quality of life improvements:

• Jade for information and stats on what you are looking at
• Tree Harvester to reduce the pain of getting masses of wood
• 3d skin layers, Better ladders
• Better Hud, F3, world organization, and searchable controls
• Heads of mobs and players
• Trade Cycling for Villagers
• Better chunk management, culling, thread priorities, and other performance optimisations

Notable Features

• Ortho Camera for wide zoomed-out shots
• Improved elytra flying mechanics and customisable elytra
• Bedrock-like placing system

Performance Requirements:
With the right settings the pack should run stabily on low-mid tier PCs
At least 6-10gb of ram available (varies depending on number of players joining game through essential, graphics settings, and the number of shader packs/resource packs you have installed)

Whilst this is a Vanilla-like pack, a large portion of the mods are incompatible on servers or essential 'servers' which are not running on the modpack (so the pack won't work on Vanilla Servers)