Here you will find a list of approved mods that are allowed on famallama.
Each mod cosmetically alters or gives alternatives within the game without providing advantages or adding new items into the game.
All of these mods require Forge in order to work.
Some of these mods may not be on the latest version of Minecraft yet, but will likely be updated eventually. Please keep an eye on their respective pages for news on the latest updates.

FORGE MODS
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Optifine
Optifine is a very popular mod that is used to deliver performance enhancements and shaders to the game, it is ideal that a majority of users have this mod installed as regardless you will see a performance benefit.
Website: Optifine

Xaeros Minimap Fair Play Edition
Xaeros Minimap is a minimap mod that displays a small map upon your screen, the version in particular is the fair-play version which is known to be multiplayer friendly.
Website: Curseforge

Xaeros World Map
With this mod, the user can open a world map of the current world they are in, and view where they have travelled. This is ideal for exploring large areas and highly recommended if you download Xaeros Minimap.
Website: Curseforge

Better Animal Models
This mod aims to make most animals look more realistic, by altering their appearance to have more detailed models that can be compared to what entities look like in real life.
This mod is ideal for those who are looking to improve the visual appearance of vanilla minecraft without removing the "vanilla" feel to the game.
Website: Curseforge

First-person Model
This mod aims to change the first person model to what it were to look like based upon the third person model. This mod is ideal for those who want a more realistic first person model, rather than just the typical vanilla arm model. This mod can also be toggled in game pressing F6 which will allow you to go from the modded model to the vanilla one.
Website: Curseforge

Dynamic Surroundings
The dynamic surroundings mod changes the sounds within the game, such as various new biome sounds, which alter per biome, nether sounds and cave sounds! It also changes sounds such as movement depending on which block you are walking on.
Alternatives of this mod are also allowed on famallama, such as Ambient Sounds as they only alter sounds within the game. (be aware that ambient sounds requires CreativeCore in order to function.
Website: Curseforge

ToroHealth (Damage Indicators)
ToroHealth is a damage indicator mod, which reveals the amount of health points an entity has on the top left of the screen. Alternatives of this mod are also allowed, due to only revealing a mobs health.
Website: Curseforge
Shatter
This mod changes the visual appearance of mob deaths, rather than turning into clouds, the mobs shatter and float away into nothingness. This is ideal for those who want a different type of death animation in minecraft.
This mod also requires iChunUtil in order to function.
Website (Shatter): Curseforge
Website (iChunUtil): Curseforge

ItemPhysic Lite
This is a mod that changes the drop physics of items. Rather than the items just floating when dropped, they take a realistic approach by being flat on the ground, when being dropped, and when on the floor.
This mod is ideal for those who want to get rid the strange physics that vanilla minecraft offers.
The lite version is only recommend as the full version has to be installed onto the server in order to work, which would mean altering the server to a modded server, rather than having the mod be client-side.
Website: Curseforge

BackTools
As said in the name, this allows the user to see one of their tools on their back when in third-person, this mod is purely cosmetic but is ideal for those who are after a mod that makes the game a bit more realistic.
This mod also requires iChunUtil in order to function.
Website (BackTools): Curseforge
Website (iChunUtil): Curseforge

Chat Heads
This mod displays the players head in chat when they are speaking, this is ideal for those who need a visual representation of who is talking based on their skin. This mod makes chat a little more unique as every player has a unique skin, therefore making chat stand out like never before.
Website: Curseforge

Crafting Tweaks
This mod adds a variety of buttons to the crafting table menu that allow you to rotate, sort or clear the crafting table, this is ideal for those who want to organise their crafting or quickly craft multiple objects.
Website: Curseforge

Durability Viewer
This mod enables you to view your items durability levels in-game on the side of your screen, which means you no longer need to open your inventory to check your item durability.
Website: Curseforge

Inventory Tweaks Renewed
This mod adds a variety of adjustments to the inventory, such as a button used to sort your inventory automatically, the mod also provides the function of refilling your building blocks from your inventory. (Original Inventory Tweaks is outdated therefore the renewed version is the only one ideal for 1.16.4)
Website: Curseforge

Just Enough Items (JEI)
JEI is a mod that displays the full library of items and their recipes within the inventory menu, for example when hovering over one of the items and pressing "R" will reveal the recipe (items required) to create the item.
Website: Curseforge

More Overlays Updated
This mod adds extra overlays such as those from the original NEI mod. For example you can view chunk boundaries, as well as light levels. This mod is ideal for those who are after the perfect lighting in their base as they can view which blocks are being lit up and what ones are not. (Standard More Overlays is outdated, so mod can be found on it's new page "More Overlays Updated")
Website: Curseforge

Name Pain
This mod aims to recolour name plates of both players and mobs in relation to their health, this also works with pets, the colours can be configured via the mod options menu, allowing a variety of customisation rather than the boring name tags that are in vanilla minecraft
Website: Curseforge

Physics Mod
This mod aims to alter block and entity physics of minecraft. For example when breaking a block ingame with this mod enabled, it will shatter into small pieces and you will receive the block, the same also applies to entities where they will just crumble rather than turning into a cloud.
Website: Curseforge
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Precise Block Placing
This mod aims to fix the issue of rapid block placing, when building fast users tend to miss blocks, this is due to minecrafts block placing being relatively slow (operates at 4 ticks per second), this mod will allow users to consecutively place blocks without missing any spaces.
Website: Curseforge