Vanilla Forge Essentials Modpack 1.12.2–1.16.5

Vanilla Forge Essentials is a modpack designed to enhance the vanilla Minecraft experience with quality-of-life features without introducing new blocks, items, or world generation. This allows for gameplay on existing maps and easy version changes or server joins without losing progress. It aims to provide small tweaks and optimizations for regular play and offers tools beneficial for creative builders, video creators, and those making timelapses.

The modpack includes features such as a world map and mini-map, a fullscreen advancements window, and key wizards for managing keybinds. It also integrates "Just Enough Items" for recipes, faster leaf decay (single-player only), and inventory/mouse tweaks like sorting and drag-and-place. Additional features include a light level overlay, shulker box content display on hover, damage indicators, a death chest for item retention, enhanced bee information, login protection, a trash slot, faster ladder climbing, named villagers, improved dropped item appearance, path creation under gates, dirt-to-path conversion, sign editing, and building projection tools for shapes and grids. It also offers easy in-game zooming and performance improvements.