Pixelated Shaders preserves the angular vanilla style while softening the lighting and color palette. Harsh shades become calmer, while daylight is distributed across blocks more evenly. Thanks to this, items and surfaces remain easy to distinguish, but the image is less tiring due to sharp changes in brightness.
Copper grates become a full-fledged part of water mechanisms with the Oxidized Aeration mod. Bubble columns from soul sand and magma can now pass freely through them, allowing the source of the flow to be hidden under a neat metal floor.
Movement across water receives a small visual addition thanks to Wakes Reforged. Boats and other objects moving across the surface leave waves behind them, forming a wake in the direction of movement. The effect is made in the style of the standard graphics and does not turn water into a complex realistic simulation.
Cinematic Zoom adds a separate system for smooth camera zooming, similar to OptiFine's zoom. Instead of instantly switching between two field-of-view values, the image gradually zooms in and returns to its original view, making camera movement smoother.
Understanding villager professions becomes easier with EMI Professions. The add-on expands the EMI interface and links each profession to the corresponding job site block. The menu displays the villager's appearance in work clothes, the profession name, and the workstation required to obtain it.
Working with dropped items changes completely after installing Interactic. Items no longer stand upright above the ground, but lie on the surface and form visual stacks whose size depends on the number of items. Aiming at an item shows information about it, while right-clicking allows it to be picked up from several blocks away.
Air travel becomes a separate progression path with Immersive Aircraft. The mod adds several types of craftable vehicles, from small airplanes and helicopters to large airships suitable for long-distance flights. The aircraft are assembled from wood, iron, and other available materials, consume fuel, and take damage from unsuccessful landings.
Instead of a single universal enderman, Enderman Overhaul populates the world with an entire group of variants of this creature. More than twenty versions are distributed across different biomes and have their own models, textures, sounds, and animations.
Inmis Addon reworks how backpacks from Inmis are displayed on the character. Flat sprites are replaced with full three-dimensional models with straps, handles, flaps, and other details. The backpack is attached to the torso and follows its movements during walking, turning, and sneaking, so the equipment looks like part of the character model.
Exploring the Overworld becomes much richer after installing Too Many Structures. More than 150 structures of different sizes and purposes are added to world generation: pillager houses, camps, ruins, dungeons, desert tombs, mushroom dwellings, large temples, and other buildings.
