
Meteor's Vanilla Refined
This is Meteor's Vanilla Refined, a polished modpack that enhances the vanilla aesthetic by adding quality of life features, beautiful visuals and much more!
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About this Modpack
If you’re looking to refresh your Minecraft survival experience without sacrificing the vanilla feel, then Meteor's vanilla refined is the perfect modpack for you! This modpack is for anyone who loves the feel of the base game but wants some quality-of-life and better visuals without using shaders at all.
Meteor's Vanilla Refined adds beautiful visuals and better fog by adding extra nice particle effects, better clouds and biome dependent colormaps to make your game look good without shaders. It also comes with a lot of optimization mods which gives you increased fps even on low end devices. There's many quality of life features like better utility blocks, more mob heads and more user friendly UI improvements. MVR adds better animations and more mob variants as well as better terrain generation for all three dimensions! Our modpack includes better sounds and better first and third person animations to make you feel more immersed.
There is also a custom vanilla tweaks resource pack which comes from https://vanillatweaks.net/picker/resource-packs/
Available Versions
How to Set Up a Meteor's Vanilla Refined Server
Order Server
Choose at least 6 GB RAM (8 GB recommended for Meteor's Vanilla Refined). Based on player count: per 5 players.
Install Modpack in Dashboard
Open the modpack browser in the dashboard, search for "Meteor's Vanilla Refined" and click "Install". The fabric loader and Minecraft 1.21.8 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
Meteor's Vanilla Refined 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 8 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 Meteor's Vanilla Refined server really need?
Minimum 6 GB, recommended 8 GB for stable performance. per 5 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 €12/month).
Can I add custom mods to Meteor's Vanilla Refined without conflicts?
Yes, but check compatibility: only use mods for the same loader (fabric) and same Minecraft version (1.21.8). 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.
Meteor's Vanilla Refined server lagging – performance tips
1) Increase RAM to 8 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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