Vanilla Horizons

Vanilla Horizons

A modpack that expands Minecraft with realism, atmosphere, ui and subtle improvements. | 1.21 | fabric

by Cinemine
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About this Modpack

What is the focus of the modpack?

  • Performance
  • Quality of Life & Interface
  • VisualsSnowy cherry grove
  • AchievementsAdvancements
  • RedstoneNew redstone
  • ExplorationNew structures
  • SurvivalSurvival

About the Modpack

Vanilla Horizons is a vanilla-plus modpack that expands the vanilla Minecraft experience.
This modpack includes performance improvements, immersive visuals, more visual effects, 3D textures, quality‑of‑life tweaks, more achievements, more redstone, exploration content and survival mechanics.

How to use the modpack in singleplayer and multiplayer:

The modpack is designed for singleplayer and multiplayer via Essential. If you are playing with Essential make sure the host and all clients are using the same modpack version. If you are on a dedicated server the server and the clients also need to have the same modpack version but the modpack is not tested on a dedicated server because I do not own one.

Which version of the modpack do I use? The Lite version or the normal version? README

Default modpack settings

  • Normal version: required 24gb+ ram with minimal 18gb ram allocated to the modpack, recommended is to allocate 20gb+ of ram to the modpack.
  • Lite version: recommended 8gb+ ram with minimal 3,7gb ram allocated to the modpack, recommended is to allocate 5gb+ of ram to the modpack.

Which version do I use

  • I have a decent pc. > Normal version.
  • I have a low-end gpu or integrated graphics. > Lite version.
  • I have a low-end cpu. > Lite version.
  • I have a low-end pc. > Lite version.
  • I have 16gb ram. > Lite version.
  • I have 8gb ram. > Lite version. Allocate 3,7 gb ram to the modpack.
  • For the normal and Lite version follow these steps:
  1. Go to options > Stutterfix.
  2. Set worker threads count to the max.
  3. Leave rest as is.
Important Keybinds & Features

Important Keybinds & Features

JEI Item & Recipe Guide
You can find almost every recipe in the game using JEI.
Open your inventory and use the menu on the right to browse items, check recipes, and discover content not listed here.

New survival Mechanics: Temperature & Thirst

  • Craft a canteen to drink water.
  • Make wool armor to stay warm or leaf armor to stay cool.
  • Winter times can get very cold.

Paragliders

Paragliders make exploration much easier.

  • When equipped, you can gain altitude by flying over hot air, such as a fire lit with flint and steel.

Bundles

Bundles do not appear in JEI, but you can craft them:

  • 1 leather + 1 string above the leather

Crawl

Press X to crawl. Great for fitting into 1 block spaces.

Zoom

Press C to zoom in and see faraway.

Screenshot Manager

Screenshots taken with F4 can be viewed in‑game.
In both the main menu and pause menu, you’ll find in the bottom of your screen:

  • A Screenshot Viewer
  • A Notebook for writing down tasks

Seasons

Seasons are now in Minecraft.

  • Winter is very cold in cold biomes.
  • Summers are very hot in warm biomes.
  • Neutral biomes are in between.
  • Some crops do not grow during winter. Hover over seeds or crops in your inventory to see their seasonal growth info.

Enchanted Book Descriptions

Unsure what an enchanted book does?
Most books can be right‑clicked to read a description.

Wiki

  • G: open the wiki for the block you’re looking at.
  • H: open the wiki search menu for general queries.

Chunk Loaders

You can craft chunk loaders to keep areas active when yourn't nearby.

  • Press V to view and manage them.

Waypoints and Minimap

  • N: add a waypoint.
  • B: create a quick waypoint (perfect when running from danger).
  • M: enlarge the minimap.

Right‑Click Harvest

Right‑click crops to harvest and replant them instantly.

All important keybinds:
  • X - Crawl
  • Z - Advancements
  • C - Zoom
  • V - Chunk loaders
  • R - Sort inventory
  • G - Open wiki
  • H - Search in wiki
  • ] - Orthographic camera
  • = - Zoom in
  • Zoom out is -
  • ` - Emotes
  • M - Big minimap
  • B - Open waypoint screen
  • N - Quick waypoint
  • [ - Change zoom minimap
  • L - Toggle shaders
  • F4 - Screenshot
  • F9 - Cinematic camera
  • F11 - Fullscreen
  • F2 - Perspective
  • F10 - Detach camera
  • Left alt - Axiom menu (creative only)
Modlist (total 391). Modlist from the Lite version is slightly different.
  • §bBetterGlint§8§8[§6Galaxy§8].zip
  • (Bee's) Blockier Goat Horn
  • 1.21 Panorama with Shaders
    1. Alternative experimental high - Eclipse Shader.zip
  • 3D crops Revamped
  • 3D Ladders
  • 3D Skin Layers
  • [EMF] Entity Model Features
  • [Enchant] Channeling II
  • [ETF] Entity Texture Features
  • Accurate Block Placement Reborn
  • Advancement Enhancement
  • Advancement Plaques
  • Adventure Dungeons
  • AFK Camera
  • AL's Zombies Revamped x Fresh Animations
  • Alternate Current
  • Amber
  • Ambient Environment
  • Animal Feeding Trough
  • AppleSkin
  • Architectury API
  • Atmosfera
  • Auto Third Person
  • Axiom
  • BadOptimizations
  • Balm
  • Bartering Station
  • Better 3D Beds
  • Better Advancements
  • Better Archeology
  • Better Biome Reblend
  • Better Boats
  • Better Enchanting Table
  • Better F1 Reborn
  • Better Falling Block Particles
  • Better Lanterns
  • Better Nether Portal
  • Better Netherite
  • Better Ores 3D
  • Better Scaffolding Visibility
  • Better Smoke
  • Better Statistics Screen
  • Better Third Person
  • Better Tridents
  • Better WorldBorder
  • BetterF3
  • Birds | Boids Addon
  • Blaze Attack Animation
  • Blocks Previewer
  • Blooming Biosphere
  • Blue Archive Halo
  • Boat Break Fix
  • Boat Item View
  • Bobby
  • Boids
  • Bundle Recipe
  • Cactus Arms
  • Camera Overhaul
  • Camera Utils
  • Carpet Edges
  • Cave Dust
  • Centered Crosshair
  • Chat Heads
  • Cherished Worlds
  • Cherry Grove Villages
  • Chunk Loaders
  • Chunky
  • CICADA
  • Cinch's Better Deepslate
  • Cinch's Missing Blocks
  • Cinch's Sandy Catacombs
  • CIT: Hotfix for Enchanted Books
  • ClearDespawn Reworked
  • Client Sort
  • Client Tweaks
  • Cloth Config API
  • Cobweb
  • Collective
  • Colorize
  • Compact Font
  • Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
  • Continuity
  • Controlling
  • Cool Rain
  • CoroUtil
  • Craftable Nametag
  • Craftable Saddles
  • Crawl
  • CreativeCore
  • Critter Armory
  • Crops Love Rain
  • Cubes Without Borders
  • Cursors Extended
  • Cut Through
  • Darceno's Minecarts
  • Death Sorter
  • Deimos
  • DeleteWorldsToTrash-v21.1.0-1.21.1-Fabric.jar
  • Distant Horizons
  • Do a Barrel Roll
  • Door Tweaks
  • Double Doors
  • Draggable Lists
  • Drip Sounds
  • Dungeons and Taverns Desert Temple Overhaul
  • Dungeons and Taverns Woodland Mansion Overhaul
  • Dungeons End Stone
  • Durability Tooltip
  • Dynamic Crosshair
  • Dynamic Crosshair Compat
  • Dynamic FPS
  • E-LITE shaders (MakeUp edit)
  • E-LITE shaders (MakeUp edit)
  • E-LITE shaders (MakeUp edit)
  • E-LITE shaders (MakeUp edit)
  • Easy Anvils
  • Easy Elytra Takeoff
  • Easy Magic
  • Easy Shulker Boxes
  • Eating Animation
  • Effect Insights
  • Elytra Drag
  • Elytra Slot
  • Elytra Trims
  • Enchant Icons
  • Enchanted Vertical Slabs
  • Enchanter Fix
  • Enchantment Lore
  • Enhanced Block Entities
  • EnhancedVisuals
  • Entity Culling
  • Entity Pin Cushions
  • Eravern's more animal products
  • Essential Dependencies.jar
  • Essential Mod
  • Euphoria Patches
  • Exordium
  • Explorify
  • Fabric API
  • Fabric API
  • Fabric Language Kotlin
  • Falling Leaves
  • falling_blocks_anim_1.1-1.21.1-fabric.jar
  • Fancy World Animations
  • FancyMenu
  • Fast Better Grass
  • FastQuit
  • FerriteCore
  • Fire Arrows Ignite Fire
  • First-person Model
  • Flow
  • Forge Config API Port
  • Forgiving Void
  • FPS Benchmark
  • Fresh Animations
  • Fresh Animations: Details
  • Fresh Animations: Emissive
  • Fresh Animations: Extensions
  • Fresh Animations: Objects
  • Fresh Animations: Player Extension
  • Fresh Animations: Spiders
  • Fresh Flower Pots
  • Fresh Flower Pots: Compats
  • Fresh Flower Pots: Rotated
  • FuelInfo
  • Fusion (Connected Textures)
  • Fusion Stacking Items
  • Fzzy Config
  • Gardener's Dream
  • Geckolib
  • Gliders
  • GlitchCore
  • Glowing Ender Dragon
  • Glowing Torchflower
  • GPUBooster
  • Grind enchantments
  • Guarding
  • Hardcore Revival
  • Hardcover
  • Hearths
  • Held Item Info
  • HellishTrials-fabric-1.0.5.jar
  • Hey Wiki
  • Highlight
  • Hopo Better Mineshaft
  • Hopo Better Ruined Portals
  • Hopo Better Underwater Ruins
  • Horse Buff
  • HT's TreeChop
  • Iceberg
  • ImmediatelyFast
  • Immersive Overlays
  • immersivesnow-1.21.1-1.4.0.jar
  • ImmersiveThunder
  • Improved cake
  • Indium
  • InvMove
  • InvMoveCompats
  • Iris Shaders
  • Item Borders
  • Item Highlighter
  • Item Refresh
  • JamLib
  • Jump Over Fences
  • Just Enough Items (JEI)
  • Just Zoom
  • Kiwi 🥝
  • KleeSlabs
  • Konkrete
  • Krypton
  • Language Reload
  • Legendary Tooltips
  • libIPN
  • LibJF
  • Lithium
  • Lithostitched
  • Low On Fire
  • Luki's Crazy Chambers
  • M.R.U
  • Make Bubbles Pop
  • MaLiLib
  • Map Distance Fix
  • Mars's Enchanted Book Textures
  • MasterCutter
  • Melody
  • MES - Moog's End Structures
  • MidnightLib
  • minihud-fabric-1.21-0.31.999-sakura.15.jar
  • MixinTrace
  • Mod Menu
  • Model Gap Fix
  • ModernFix
  • modernworldcreation_fabric_2.0.1_MC_1.21.1.jar
  • Monsters in the Closet
  • Moog's Structure Lib (moogs_structures)
  • Moonlight Lib
  • More Armor Trims
  • More Bed Variants
  • More Chat History
  • More Culling
  • More Dead Bushes
  • Mouse Tweaks
  • Nature X
  • Necronomicon API
  • NetherPortalFix
  • No Animal Tempt Delay
  • No Resource Pack Warnings
  • Noisium
  • Not Enough Animations
  • Nyf's Spiders
  • Omni-Hopper
  • OptiGUI
  • OrthoCamera
  • Palladium
  • Particle Core
  • Particle Effects
  • Particle Interactions
  • Particle Rain
  • Perception
  • Physics Mod
  • Pick Up Notifier
  • Pixel Consistent Signs
  • Player Emotes
  • playerAnimator
  • Polymorph
  • Potion Cauldron
  • Presence Footsteps
  • Prism
  • Profundis: Nine New Quality Cave Biomes
  • Prometheus
  • Pufferfish's Biome Dither
  • Puzzles Lib
  • Quilted Fabric API (QFAPI) / Quilt Standard Libraries (QSL)
  • Raised
  • RAY's 3D Rails
  • Ray's Better Sugarcane
  • Recipe Book is Pain
  • Red Bits (redstone)
  • Resourceful Config
  • Resourceful Lib
  • Resourcify
  • Respackopts
  • RightClickHarvest
  • RoadArchitect
  • RoadArchitect: Encounters
  • ScalableLux
  • Screenshot Viewer
  • Scribble
  • Seamless Loading Screen
  • Searchables
  • Serene Seasons
  • ServerCore
  • ShatterLib | OctoLib
  • Shulker Box Tooltip
  • Silk
  • Simple Datapacks
  • Sketch
  • SleepWarp (Updated)
  • Smarter Farmers (farmers replant)
  • Smelting Touch
  • Smooth Scrolling
  • Smooth Swapping
  • smooth_f5-fabric-1.0.1.jar
  • Snow! Real Magic! ⛄
  • Sodium
  • Soft Weather
  • Soul Candles
  • Sound Physics Remastered
  • Sounds
  • Spawn Animations
  • Spawn Egg Backport
  • splashscreen-1.1.1.jar
  • Spring Flowers
  • Spryzeen's Better glint
  • Stack Refill
  • Status Effect Bars
  • Stonecutter Damage
  • Stoneworks
  • Strata
  • Strong Leads
  • StutterFix
  • Subtle Effects
  • Suggestion Tweaker
  • SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
  • SuperMartijn642's Core Lib
  • TalkBubbles
  • Tall Coral
  • TCDCommons API
  • TerraBlender
  • Text Placeholder API
  • This Rocks!
  • ThreadTweak
  • Tightfire
  • Tiny Item Animations
  • ToadLib
  • Toggle Item Frames
  • Torch hit!
  • torchtoss-fabric-1.21.1-1.2.0+1.21.1.jar
  • Tough As Nails
  • Tough As Nails - Vanilla Pack
  • Trade Cycling
  • Trinkets
  • Trowel
  • True Ending: Ender Dragon Music
  • TT20 (TPS Fixer)
  • Tumbleweeds
  • Unbad Redstone
  • Underlay
  • Undopia 3D Bars
  • Undopia 3D Furnaces
  • Undopia 3D Mace
  • Undopia 3D Pointed Dripstone
  • Undopia 3D Sculk Shrieker
  • Undopia 3D Spawner
  • Undopia 3D Trial Spawners
  • Undopia Dispenser & Dropper
  • Universal Bone Meal
  • Unnamed Desert
  • Unnamed Sea
  • Unwrecked Ships
  • Update Edition
  • Vanilla Notebook
  • VeinMiner
  • VeinMiner Enchantment
  • Very Many Players (Fabric)
  • ViaFabric
  • Video Tape
  • Villager Names
  • Villages&Pillages
  • Visual Workbench
  • Vocal Villagers
  • Wakes
  • WalksyLib
  • Wavey Capes
  • What Are They Up To (Watut)
  • White Pumpkin
  • World Play Time
  • WorldEdit
  • Wrinkled Banners
  • Xaero's Minimap
  • Xander's Sodium Options
  • Yeetus Experimentus
  • YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)
  • YUNG's API
  • YUNG's Better Jungle Temples
  • YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses
  • YUNG's Better Strongholds
  • YUNG's Better Witch Huts
  • Zigy's Player Animator API
  • §lColourful Containers§8.zip

Thanks to DB’s Minecraft Refined modpack by disruptivebuilds as inspiration.

Available Versions

Vanilla Horizons 1.7.4release
MC 1.21fabric3 downloads
June 16, 2026
Vanilla Horizons 1.7.4 Literelease
MC 1.21fabric4 downloads
June 16, 2026
Vanilla Horizons 1.7.3release
MC 1.21fabric13 downloads
June 9, 2026
Vanilla Horizons 1.7.3 Literelease
MC 1.21fabric5 downloads
June 9, 2026
Vanilla Horizons 1.7.2release
MC 1.21fabric12 downloads
June 2, 2026

How to Set Up a Vanilla Horizons Server

1

Order Server

Choose at least 6 GB RAM (8 GB recommended for Vanilla Horizons). Based on player count: per 5 players.

2

Install Modpack in Dashboard

Open the modpack browser in the dashboard, search for "Vanilla Horizons" and click "Install". The fabric loader and Minecraft 1.21 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

Vanilla Horizons 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 Vanilla Horizons 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 Vanilla Horizons without conflicts?

Yes, but check compatibility: only use mods for the same loader (fabric) and same Minecraft version (1.21). 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.

Vanilla Horizons 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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Supported Versions

1.21

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