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+# Recommended Mods
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+This document has three sections:
+- List of recommended mods
+- Links to the mods and dependencies
+- General installation instructions
+
+## Mod List
+
+All the mods listed below require Fabric. Fabric is a modern lightweight alternative to Forge.
+
+### Performance mods:
+- Sodium: does all sorts of performance improvements, replaces graphics settings screen with its own
+- LazyDFU: decreases start up time by disabling initialization of the DataFixerUpper when it’s not needed
+- Enhanced Block Entities: improves performance around large amounts of chests by pre-computing the animations once (incompatible with Fast Chest)
+- FastChest: improves performance around large amounts of chests by disabling the animation outright (incompatible with Enhanced Block Entities)
+
+### Eye candy:
+- Iris: shader mod for Fabric, compatible with Sodium, WIP but works with many shaders already
+- Continuity: connected textures
+- Farsight: cache chunks beyond the server’s viewing distance and render them anyway, also fixes the client rebuilding all loaded chunks when the server changes its viewing distance
+- Sheep Consistency: makes sheared sheep colored
+- Presence Footsteps: not really *eye* candy but it fits best here, adds sounds for walking on different kinds of blocks
+
+### Other useful things:
+- Logical Zoom: adds zoom
+- LambDynamicLights: dynamic lights
+- Xaero’s Minimap: minimap and waypoints
+- Litematica: allows you to copy and paste things by displaying schematics in the world
+- Litematica Printer: places blocks for Litematica schematics automatically
+
+## Links and Dependencies
+- [Fabric](https://fabricmc.net/use)
+- [Sodium](https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric/releases)
+- [LazyDFU](https://github.com/astei/lazydfu/releases)
+- [Enhanced Block Entities](https://modrinth.com/mod/OVuFYfre) OR [FastChest](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fastchest)
+  - EBE requires [Fabric API](https://modrinth.com/mod/fabric-api) and [Indium](https://modrinth.com/mod/indium) to work with Sodium
+- [Iris](https://modrinth.com/mod/iris)
+  - requires [Sodium](https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric/releases)
+- [Continuity](https://github.com/PepperCode1/Continuity/releases)
+  - requires [Fabric API](https://modrinth.com/mod/fabric-api)
+- [Farsight](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/farsight-fabric)
+- [Sheep Consistency](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/sheep-consistency)
+  - requires [Fabric API](https://modrinth.com/mod/fabric-api)
+- [Presence Footsteps](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/presence-footsteps)
+- [Logical Zoom](https://github.com/LogicalGeekBoy/logical_zoom/releases)
+- [LambDynamicLights](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/lambdynamiclights)
+  - requires [Fabric API](https://modrinth.com/mod/fabric-api)
+- [Xaero’s Minimap](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/xaeros-minimap)
+  - make sure to download the Fabric version, both Forge and Fabric versions are available on the same site
+  - requires [Fabric API](https://modrinth.com/mod/fabric-api)
+- [Litematica](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/litematica)
+  - requires [MaLiLib](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/malilib)
+- [Litematica Printer](https://github.com/aleksilassila/litematica-printer/releases)
+  - requires [Litematica](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/litematica), [MaLiLib](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/malilib)