Nirvana - Better Vanilla
ModpackSmoother play and useful extras for vanilla multiplayer worlds.
Mod grades
How grades workModpacks get no grade of their own, so we show the grades of its mods. Of its 52 graded mods, 51 are graded A or B, 0 C and 1 D to F. Its last update came out 6 weeks ago, for Minecraft 26.2. See the mods
About
Nirvana Better Vanilla is a client-side modpack for improving survival multiplayer and single-player play while keeping Minecraft close to its vanilla experience and usable on vanilla servers. It adds no gameplay content, instead combining performance optimizations such as Sodium, Lithium, and FerriteCore with interface and quality-of-life features. Players can use a minimap and fullscreen world map with waypoints, check armor and other status information through HUD overlays, and sort or manage inventories with added tools. Visual options include shaders, connected textures, dynamic lights, and a smooth configurable zoom, with support for many OptiFine-style resource-pack features. Other conveniences include food and mount HUD information, searchable statistics and key bindings, shulker-box previews, and a light-level overlay for checking potential mob-spawn locations.
Written from Modrinth and the GitHub README . How we write it
Mods in this pack
The mods of its newest release (Minecraft 26.2 · Fabric, 15 Sep 2026). Each check result is for the latest files of that mod, which may not be the version in this pack.
Cloth Config APIMod · 569.3M downloadsAPassed
Fabric APIMod · 527.1M downloadsAPassed
AppleSkinMod · 519.2M downloadsAPassed
Architectury APIMod · 460M downloadsAPassed
ControllingMod · 441.6M downloadsAPassed
Entity CullingMod · 425.1M downloadsAPassed
SodiumMod · 412.7M downloadsAPassed
Xaero's MinimapMod · 377.5M downloadsBPassed
Iris ShadersMod · 337.4M downloadsAPassed
Xaero's World MapMod · 330.9M downloadsBPassed
ImmediatelyFastMod · 329.5M downloadsAPassed
[ETF] Entity Texture FeaturesMod · 272.2M downloadsAPassed
YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)Mod · 266.4M downloadsAPassed
Not Enough AnimationsMod · 263.3M downloadsAPartly checked
[EMF] Entity Model FeaturesMod · 252.9M downloadsAPassed
Mod MenuMod · 244.6M downloadsAPassed
FerriteCoreMod · 243.7M downloadsAPassed
LithiumMod · 242.4M downloadsAPassed
SearchablesMod · 221.4M downloadsAPassed
Fabric Language KotlinMod · 218.7M downloadsAPassed
No Chat ReportsMod · 186.5M downloadsAPassed
Sodium ExtraMod · 181.1M downloadsAPassed
Chat HeadsMod · 172.4M downloadsAPassed
Reese's Sodium OptionsMod · 166.6M downloadsAPassed
ContinuityMod · 145.1M downloadsAPassedChanges since the previous release
Compared with the release of 10 Aug 2026 for the same platform, Minecraft version and loader. We do not compare the versions of the mods yet.
- Removed
Bobby- Share graded A or B
- unchanged
Details
- Creator
- Wiley
- License
- MIT License
- Downloads
- 28K
- Created
- 5 Feb 2021
- Official pages
- Modrinth , CurseForge
Security
No harmful code found in its mods
We checked all 53 mods and the files in the pack itself, without running them.
Why we show this: a modpack installs the files of its mods, and each mod runs on your computer like any program. Our checks look for known signs of harm. They cannot prove that a file is harmless. In the grade: a modpack has no grade of its own, and each mod's result counts in that mod's grade.
How we checked
- Its projects53 mods
- Files in the pack itself44 settings files, 3 mod jars.
- Author on ModrinthThe disclosure form on Modrinth, where the author declares that the project reads or edits things on your system outside the game. Since 13 Aug 2026, Modrinth's rules require it when this applies.Nothing declared about your system outside the game.
Privacy
7 mods send something about you
We read the code of all 53 of its mods, without running it.
Why we show this: a modpack runs the code of its mods, and a mod can send things about you over the internet, like your player name or your login. Contacting an address to check for updates or download files sends nothing about you. Not in the grade: sending data can be normal for what a mod does.
How we checked
- Go online onlyTheir code contacts a web address, for example to check for updates. We found nothing it sends about you.8 mods
- Crash reports or usage dataTheir author declares crash reports or usage data on Modrinth, or such a service is named in their files. Reading their code did not show it.1 mod
- Send nothingTheir code contacts no web address.38 mods
AI
AI used in 2 of the 52 mods we checked
We found an AI tool in them, or their authors declared AI content.
1 mod is not checked yet.
No sign so far that AI was used to make the pack itself
We looked for AI tools in its texts and found none.
We have not read its files, images and code history yet.
Why we show this: some players and servers avoid projects made with AI, and AI in the game can send what you write to an online service. Not in the grade: using AI does not tell whether a project works well or is kept up to date.
How we checked
- Author on ModrinthThe disclosure form on Modrinth. Since 13 Aug 2026, Modrinth's rules require it when a substantial part of the code is AI output, when an asset is mainly AI output, or when the project or its page relies on generative AI.No AI content declared.
- Code historyThe public code on GitHub: who made each change, credit lines such as "Co-authored-by", and its files.Not read yet
- Description and changelogsThe description, project page and newest changelogs: sentences saying an AI tool was used, and text pasted from an AI chat.Nothing found6 of 40 changelogs read
- Its filesFiles that AI coding tools leave behind (like AGENTS.md), and the texts inside the files you download.Not read yet
- Images in its filesHidden data in the images of the files you download, where AI image tools write their name and settings.Not read yet
Compatibility
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