1.17.1 Client-Side Fabric Modlist

• Ambient indicates the mod adds audio ambience.
• Optimization simply optimizes the game so it runs better. Just throw all of these mods into the mod folder without thinking about it
• Visual means that it's purely a visual change, usually some form of tweak.
• Tweak without the Visual tag means that it modifies existing behavior/functionality. Feature means it adds new functionality/other.
• OF-Alt means that it's an Optifine Alternate

APIs & Dependencies

• You obviously need to install the Fabric Modloader from https://fabricmc.net/use
• ModMenu: Needed to configure mods
• Architectury API: Light overlay & Slight GUI Modifications
• Autoconfig API: Inventory control tweaks
• Cloth Config: Slight GUI Modifications, Falling Leaves and ChestTracker
• Cloth API: Slight GUI Modifications and ChestTracker
• Fabric Language Kotlin: Jump Over Fences
• Fabric API: Most of 'em
• Indium: For compat. between Sodium & Enhanced Block Entities (or CBT/CTM)
• Malilib: Litematica and MiniHUD

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Mods I Use

Mod (Link)	Description	Alternatives
Sodium	OF-Alt/Optimization A replacement for what people used to expect of optifine optimization NOT NEEDED IF YOU INSTALL IRIS, IRIS HAS A CUSTOM VERSION OF SODIUM ALREADY BUNDLED WITH IT
Iris	OF-Alt/Visual/Shaders Shaders that supports Optifine's format and is compatible with Sodium	Canvas- Incompat w/ Sodium
CIT Resewn	OF-Alt/Visual Meant to replicate Optifine's CIT while being compatible with Sodium! (Sodium not required)
Accurate Block Placement	Tweak easier to accurately place blocks quickly, check the demonstration gif
Advanced NBT Tooltips	Visual more information about items in tooltip, but Beenfo is still useful
AdvancementInfo	Visual also enlarges advancements screen, rendering advancements enlarger useless	Advancement Enlarger
AFKPeace	Features Server Reconnect, AFK Damage Logout Threshold, and it's all configurable	AutoReconnect
AMECS	Tweaks for keybinds, but is overwritten by Controlling for Fabric	Controlling
Anti Ghost Blocks	Feature
Appleskin	Visual/Tweaks
Atmosfera	Ambient
Audio Output	Tweak Allows you to change audio output device without restarting minecraft
AutoAFKFish	Feature May be considered hacks press F12 to continue holding down right click even if you open chat or swap windows
Autofish	AFK Feature May be considered hacks
AutoSwitch	Feature Switches to the correct tool when you punch a block, configurable
Axolotl Bucket Fix	Visual
BearsArmorHUD	Visual minimalistic vanilla-style to show an extended hotbar with your armor, and a red bouncy thing when it's low durability
Better Controls	Tweaks configurable, check page
Better Eating	Tweak set a delay between when you finish eating and when you can place blocks, to prevent eating and accidentally placing down a torch
BetterF3	Visual better F3 lol
Better Mount HUD	Visual your food + mount's health is displayed at same time, experience bar only gets replaced while actually jumping
Better Ping Display	Visual display ping in milliseconds instead
Block Meter	Feature
CleanView	Visual
Clear Despawn	Visual
Click Through Signs	Tweak click through signs to containers
Chest Tracker	Visual check the page since it's hard to sum up NOTE: Displays as Where Is It in ModMenu
Connected Double Doors	Tweak client-only it allows you to open both doors at the same time by telling the server you did so, but may not work if there's an anti-cheat
Cull Leaves	OF-Alt/Optimization
Custom FoV	OF-Alt/Visual Allows you to customize the FoV for normal, flying, aiming, underwater and sprinting/potion effects (note, NoDynamicFOV is already in Vanilla)
Dynamic FPS	Optimization
Dynamic Sound Filters	Ambient the original which isn't 1.17.1 yet can be found here
EasierCrafting	Tweaks read page
EasierVillagerTrading	Tweaks
Enchanted ToolTips	Visual description of what the enchantment does, what items it can be used on, and the max level it can be
Enhanced Block Entities	Optimization Makes chests (and soon to be more block entities) use baked block models rather than laggy entity models while keeping animations
EntityCulling	Optimization Still helps even if you already have Sodium
Extra Armour Info	Visual adds HUD icons for armor toughness and knockback resistance
Falling Leaves	Visual adds falling leaves
Fast Furnace	Optimization does NOT increase smelting speed
FerriteCore	Optimization reduce RAM usage
Fish Help	Visual indicates with green/red particles wether or not you'll be able to get treasure from your spot
Flight Helper	Feature keybinds to move your head to the ideal pitch for gliding or rocketing up	Flight Details
Freelook	Visual/Feature Hold a key to basically F5 but without changing where the player is looking, and just getting to look around	Better Third Person
Game Info	Visual	WorldTime MiniHUD
Giselbaers Durability Viewer	Visual
Horse Stats	Visual displays health speed and jump height of horses
Hydrogen	Optimization
Illuminations	Visual/Shaders-ish cool
Inv Control Tweaks	Tweaks	Armor Hotswap
Jump Over Fences	Tweak May be considered hacks Allows you to jump over fences & walls if you're not SKILLED enough to do the elytra trick
Krypton	Optimization
LambDynamicLights	OF-Alt/Visual dynamic lights
LazyDFU	Optimization
Light Overlay	Visual Keybind is F7 by default
Lithium	Optimization
Map Tooltip	Visual
Memory Usage Screen	Visual
Multiconnect	Misc allows the client to connect to older servers	ViaFabric
Notes	Visual/Feature allows you to easily take and pin notes	MCG
Not Enough Crashes	Misc provides more details upon crash and allows you to go back to main menu without restarting the game
Ok Zoomer	OF-Alt/Visual/Feature May be considered a cheat	Logical Zoom
Path Suggestion	Visual/Tweak the autocomplete for ids in commands will end at each :, / or . (Download is 1.16 but still works in 1.17)
Presence Footsteps	Ambient
ScreenshotToClipboard	Tweak copies screenshots to clipboard
Seamless Loading Screen	Visual/Tweak takes a screenshot of the game when you leave a world or server and displays it when you rejoin
Sheep Consistency	Visual/Tweak
Shulker Box Tooltip	Visual/Tweak
Slight GUI Modifications	Visual/Tweaks
Smooth Boot	Optimization loads game smoother
Starlight	Optimization
StatsSearch	Visual/Tweak adds a search box to the top of the Statistics screens
StepUp	Tweak May be considered hacks AutoJump but not annoying and doesn't use hunger
Sodium Extras	Tweaks/Features/OF-Alt other stuff
Time To Live	Visual How long until TNT explodes

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Mods I Use that need special download instructions

Mods with special installation	Instructions	Alternatives
Visual BeehiveTooltips	Uses default ID of modid, may need to Open Archive>fabric.mod.json and edit "id": "modid", to "id": "beehivetooltips",	Beenfo
Feature Mod Updater	7zip > Open Archive > Open fabric.mod.json > edit "minecraft": "1.16.x" to "minecraft": "1.17.x"
Feature AFK Tape	7zip > Open Archive > Open fabric.mod.json > edit "minecraft": "1.16.x" to "minecraft": "1.17.x"	AFarmK AutoRun
OF-Alt / Visual LambdasBetterGrass (GH)	Incompatible with Dashloader, I personally prefer better grass over launch game fast
Optimization Dashloader (GH)	Incompatible with LambdasBetterGrass, I personally prefer better grass over launch game fast

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Additional

Inspiration from LambdAurora: Recommended Fabric OptiFine alternatives and AOF: Fabric 1.16.2 Client-side Mods I need to finish scanning through All fabric mods on CurseForge and adding all Client Side 1.17.1 (Already got a-b!)

• The shaders I use for Iris https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/customization/complementary-shaders

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Mods that I Don't Use

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Mods that I dont use	Description
Connected Block Textures	OF-Alt/Visual Direct Optifine Alternative, compatible with Optifine format
Connected Textures Mod	OF-Alt/Visual CTM is an optifine alternative but uses it's own format
Litematica	COMPLEX Tool
GrabcraftLitematic	For use with Litematica
Item Scroller	COMPLEX Tool
Spyglass Zoom	Feature allows you to use scroll wheel to zoom in more while using spyglass
Fabrishot	Feature take large screenshots, F9 by default
Beem	Visual potentially a cheat marks bee nests with a yellow beacon beem
Better Dropped Items	Visual items will spin out of hand and land flat on ground
Client Commands	I don't really know what this is
Colorful Campfire Smoke	I'm not sure if this is clientside and can't check myself
Dark Loading Screen	Visual I don't really care
Debrand	Visual removes modded notice from window title and title screen, don't care
Don't Drop It!	Feature I have faith in myself not accidentally hitting q
Carpet Mod	A lot. Don't feel like using it
VoxelMap	Visual a minimap and fullmap mod that also allows you to teleport to waypoints if you have permission
RandomBlockPlacement	Feature randomly place blocks, I just use schroll wheel like a chad
Nogzimo	Visual replaces the F3 crosshair with the default one
ToroHealth Damage Indicators	Visual shows mob health and name
Player Mini-Me	Visual shows mini version of yourself in the top left
Right Click Clear	Misc clears text field when right clicked
Roughly Enough Items	Misc does a bunch
Smoke Extender	Visual It says "works on servers too" which implies it originally works on client, but idk
Xaero's Minimap FAIR-PLAY	Visual minimap
Xaero's World Map	Misc it's too long, dunno if it's even client side
Tweakeroo	COMPLEX Tweaks & Features almost a borderline cheat
Easier Chests	Tweaks read page
Grid	Visual creates grids using /grid <subcommands>, check the page
Held Item Info	Visual for a few seconds displays info of your held item when you switch slots/items
Accessibility Plus & Accessibility Plus Extended	Narrator upgrades and more
Easy Life	Narrator upgrades and more
Numpad/Keypad Camera Controls	Control camera with numpad
Adaptive Brightness	Visual Adaptive brightness
Advanced XRay	Visual LITERALLY AN XRAY HACK. It can be used to find lost blocks, but it's also an xray hack
AutoClicker	Potentially a cheat would probably alert Hypixel's watch dog and get me banned, and I don't like to have to disable mods before joining specific servers, so not gonna use it
Better Biome Blend	Optimization/Visual Is currently incompatible with Sodium
Boring Backgrounds	Visual allows you to randomize the background but you need to make a custom resource pack, so too lazy
Bridging Metronome	Idk but it's client side
AI-Chatbot	Feature say !chat to start chatting with an AI DOESN'T APPEAR TO WORK

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