Simply Refined

Simply Refined

Simply Refined is a carefully curated client-side pack focused on QoL improvements, beautiful visuals, and smooth performance.

by realcraze
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fabricMC 26.1lightweightmultiplayeroptimization

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Extended Render Distance
Freecam Integrated
Immersive Environment
Realistic Rain Effects
Better Performance
Complimentary Shaders

About this Modpack

Simply Refined is a carefully curated client-side pack focused on QoL improvements, beautiful visuals, and smooth performance.

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✨ Included Features

💡 QoL Improvements

  • AppleSkin adds useful food-related HUD improvements, displaying saturation, exhaustion, and food restoration information.
  • Auth Me allows you to quickly re-validate your Minecraft session during Invalid Session errors when connecting to servers.
  • BetterF3 replaces Minecraft's default F3 menu with a highly customizable, more human-readable HUD.
  • Block Meter allows you to measure areas with ease so you never have to count blocks manually again. Works perfectly with CalcMod!
  • Bobby allows customizable render distances further than the server's view-distance setting.
  • CalcMod brings a simple and easy-to-use calculator in your chat with shortcuts designed for Minecraft.
  • Centered Crosshair fixes a Minecraft bug where the crosshair isn't actually centered.
  • Chat Heads adds player heads to chat messages.
  • Client Sort brings simple inventory sorting while remaining light and non-intrusive.
  • Controlling adds a searchbar to your Controls settings so you can easily find a key binding in the menu.
  • Cubes Without Borders allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window so you can easily use other applications while keeping the game open.
  • Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed provides detailed information about your armor in the HUD.
  • Essential allows you to host worlds, take and share screenshots more easily, and chat with other friends offline who also have Essential.
  • Freecam allows you to move your camera separately from your player within your render distance, which is useful for inspecting builds or taking screenshots.
  • Jade displays information about what you're looking at in Minecraft.
  • JourneyMap adds a real-time map as you explore the world, with the ability to add custom waypoints.
  • Language Reload adds quality-of-life improvements related to languages.
  • Locator Heads adds player heads to the locator bar.
  • Mod Menu allows you to view installed mods and adjust configurations.
  • Numeral Ping replaces Minecraft's signal strength ping display with numeric values instead, allowing you to see exactly how much ping players have in servers.
  • Remove Reloading Screen allows you to interact with menus without waiting for resource packs to load when making changes.
  • ReplayMod allows you to record and replay your captured moments from a 3D perspective.
  • Scribble adds useful buttons to books, allowing you to format and change the color of text without worrying about the § symbol, and much more.
  • Simple Voice Chat adds proximity voice chat capabilities to Minecraft if supported by the server.
  • Vivecraft adds VR support.
  • Zoomify adds a highly customizable zoom key.

🌿 Aesthetics

  • Iris Shaders adds shader support and is compatible with OptiFine shaderpacks.
  • Complementary Shaders - Reimagined adds a warm and cozy vibe to your Minecraft world with unique visual elements for a vanilla feel.
  • Bliss Shaders adds a scenic fantasy feel to your Minecraft world.
  • 3D Skin Layers automatically renders the second layer of player skins in 3D.
  • AmbientSounds makes sounds more immersive in your Minecraft world.
  • BetterGrassify adds OptiFine's Fancy and Fast better grass implementation.
  • Blur+ adds dynamic blur to all GUIs to remove distractions and improve menu aesthetics.
  • Continuity adds support for connected textures.
  • Cool Rain adds dynamic sounds to certain blocks during rainfall.
  • Explosive Enhancement adds new particles to make explosions look better.
  • Falling Leaves adds falling leaf particles to leaf blocks.
  • Immersive Hotbar adds animations to your hotbar to make it more immersive and aesthetic when placing or picking up blocks, using tools or weapons, and scrolling in the hotbar.
  • LambDynamicLights adds real-time dynamic lights to torches, lanterns, and more.
  • Particle Effects adds uniquely textured particles for every effect in Minecraft.
  • Realistic Rain replaces the default rain sounds to be more realistic, including rain and splash textures, and adds new thunder sounds.
  • Sound Physics Remastered adds realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks, creating a highly immersive sound experience.
  • Sounds adds a variety of new sound effects to the UI, chat messages, in-game actions, and block sounds.
  • Visuality adds a variety of new particles for minor visual improvements.
  • Wakes adds realistic splashes and wakes on water.

⚡ Performance & Compatibility Mods

  • BadOptimizations adds optimizations to lightmap updates, sky color calculation, debug logic, and more.
  • Concurrent Chunk Management (C2ME) improves chunk performance.
  • Controlify adds controller support.
  • Dynamic FPS reduces resource usage when Minecraft is in the background, idle, or on battery.
  • Entity Culling increases FPS by hiding entities that aren't visible using asynchronous path-tracing.
  • FerriteCore optimizes memory usage.
  • ImmediatelyFast optimizes all immediate mode rendering using a custom buffer implementation.
  • Lithium improves game logic optimization, including game physics, mob AI, block ticking, and more.
  • More Culling increases FPS by adjusting multiple types of culling to improve performance.
  • ServerCore improves performance and reduces lag spikes in Minecraft servers (can still provide some client-side benefits when connected to servers).
  • Sodium improves framerate, micro-stutter, and fixes several graphical issues in Minecraft, among other rendering optimizations.
  • Very Many Players (VMP) improves server performance at high player counts (may still help clients on large servers).
  • [EMF] Entity Model Features adds support for OptiFine's Custom Entity Models (CEM).
  • [ESF] Entity Sound Features allows for entity sound variation using OptiFine format property rules.
  • [ETF] Entity Texture Features adds new entity texture features, including entity and player skin features.

⭐ Planned Updates

  • A custom wiki with a useful performance guide and FAQ
  • A Lite version of Simply Refined for lower-end computers
  • Backporting for 1.16.5 — 1.21.5

Available Versions

Simply Refined 1.21.11 - 1.1.0release
MC 1.21.11fabric16 downloads
March 30, 2026
Simply Refined 1.21.10 - 1.3.0release
MC 1.21.10fabric3 downloads
March 30, 2026
Simply Refined 1.21.8 - 1.8.0release
MC 1.21.8fabric1 downloads
March 30, 2026
Simply Refined 1.21.7 - 1.8.0release
MC 1.21.7fabric5 downloads
March 30, 2026
Simply Refined 1.21.6 - 1.8.0release
MC 1.21.6fabric4 downloads
March 30, 2026

How to Set Up a Simply Refined Server

1

Order Server

Choose at least 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended for Simply Refined). Based on player count: per 8 players.

2

Install Modpack in Dashboard

Open the modpack browser in the dashboard, search for "Simply Refined" and click "Install". The fabric loader and Minecraft 26.1 are configured automatically.

3

Start Server & Play

Start the server – all mods are loaded automatically. Share the server IP with friends and play together!

Frequently Asked Questions

Simply 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 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 Simply Refined 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 Simply Refined without conflicts?

Yes, but check compatibility: only use mods for the same loader (fabric) and same Minecraft version (26.1). 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.

Simply Refined 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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Recommended RAM:
6 GB(min. 4 GB)
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Details

License
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
Server-side
Unsupported
Client-side
Required

Supported Versions

26.11.21.111.21.101.21.91.21.81.21.71.21.61.20.1

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