
Friends and Gamers
This is the official mod pack for the Minecraft server "Friends and Gamers". It greatly improves Performance, Visuals and Audio without changing the Vanilla feeling of Minecraft.
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About this Modpack

Friends and Gamers Modpack
This is the official mod pack created for the use on the private Minecraft server "Friends and Gamers".
Fast Summary:
This Modpack has no Vanilla changing modifications. It contains carefully hand-picked and tested performance mods for 1.20.4 for the best performance available. The world feels more lively through some ambient sound and visual enhancement mods. Contains also some mods that are required to play on the server. ( It is not recommended to join other servers with this mod pack )
The Mods in Detail:
📈 Tweaks:
- Concurrent Chunk Management Engine: Improves the chunk performance of Minecraft.
- Dynamic FPS: Reduce resource usage while Minecraft is in the background, idle, or on battery.
- Entity Culling: Multithreaded Path-Tracing, Smart Occlusion Culling and Entity Tick Optimization.
- FastQuit: Lets you return to the title screen early.
- FerriteCore: This mod reduces the memory usage of Minecraft.
- ImmediatelyFast: Optimizes rendering by using the GPU in a more efficient way.
- Lithium: This is a optimization mod which improves game physics, mob AI, block ticking, etc.
- ModernFix: This is a mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs.
- More Culling: This mod changes how multiple types of culling are handled.
- Nvidium: This mod explicitly requires an nvidia gpu that supports mesh shaders. (can be turned on/off)
- Sodium: This mod improves frame rates and micro-stutter, while fixing graphical issues.
- ThreadTweak: Improves Minecraft CPU scheduling.
🎧 Audio:
- Sounds: This mod adds new sound effects to the game, whilst also improving existing ones.
- Presence Footsteps: This mod adds more dynamic sounds for every block the player walks on.
- ImmersiveThunder: This mod adds new thunder sounds and plays them based on distance.
- Dynamic Surroundings: Enhanced Sound Processing based on the surrounding material and Biome.
🏞️ Visual:
- 3D Skin Layers: Replaces the second layer of player skins with a fully 3D-modeled version.
- Iris Shaders: A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft.
- Bliss Shaders with recommended config: A beautiful and optimized shader for Minecraft.
- Continuity: Allows for connected textures in resurcepacks.
- Enhanced Block Entities: Smooth lighting and increase entity rendering performance from far away.
- Particular: Enhances ambience with hand-crafted visual particle effects.
- Tiny Item Animations: This mod adds little item animations in your inventory.
- Xaero's Minimap: A simple minimap mod with highly customizable options.
🕹️ Server Mods:
- Simple Voice Chat: A proximity voice chat for Minecraft
- Anvil Fix Reborn: GUI improvement for Anvil Fix server side.
- Armor Stands: Place, pose, and dress armor stands with an easy-to-use UI.
- Armored Elytra: This mod displays the chestplate and elytra at the same time.
Available Versions
How to Set Up a Friends and Gamers Server
Order Server
Choose at least 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended for Friends and Gamers). Based on player count: per 8 players.
Install Modpack in Dashboard
Open the modpack browser in the dashboard, search for "Friends and Gamers" and click "Install". The fabric loader and Minecraft 1.20.4 are configured automatically.
Start Server & Play
Start the server – all mods are loaded automatically. Share the server IP with friends and play together!
Frequently Asked Questions
Friends and Gamers server crashes or won't start – what to do?
Most common causes: insufficient RAM or wrong fabric loader. Check latest.log for "OutOfMemoryError" → increase RAM to at least 6 GB. For "Mixin" or "ClassNotFoundException" errors: modpack version and loader don't match. With Mado Hosting, loader and Minecraft version are auto-configured on modpack install – preventing most startup issues.
How much RAM does a Friends and Gamers server really need?
Minimum 4 GB, recommended 6 GB for stable performance. per 8 players. Important: Minecraft modpacks need more RAM than vanilla – plan extra per additional player. With Mado Hosting, you can scale RAM up live at any time without data loss (from €8/month).
Can I add custom mods to Friends and Gamers without conflicts?
Yes, but check compatibility: only use mods for the same loader (fabric) and same Minecraft version (1.20.4). Common issues: ID conflicts with recipe mods and incompatible coremod versions. The Mado dashboard mod browser only shows compatible mods and warns about known conflicts.
Friends and Gamers server lagging – performance tips
1) Increase RAM to 6 GB+. 2) Reduce server view-distance to 8 (server.properties). 3) Pre-generate chunks with the "Chunky" plugin. 4) Use /spark profiler to check which mods consume the most tick time. With Mado Hosting, all servers run on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores – eliminating hardware as a bottleneck.
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Details
- License
- LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved
- Server-side
- Unsupported
- Client-side
- Required
Supported Versions
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