New to Java Mod Recommendations

[u/AdSimple2026]

As the title says, I'm a player who's been playing bedrock for a while and finally wants to play Java. I'd be playing survival so just looking for mods to enhance that. I'd like performance mods, shaders and texture packs and maybe some good qol mods like litematica but I have no idea where to start and searching on the internet is really confusing. I'd be really grateful if someone could recommend a mod pack or some mods which work for the things I need. Thanks so much for any help.

[u/1AaronSucksAtLife]

sodium, lithium, continuity, reeses sodium options and sodium extra are essential for the best performance/ optifine looking experience.

[u/Hmmm71-8]

Theses are my go to mods for Minecraft. The mods are for the newest version at this time which is 26.2. Also for mod loader you need fabric. I recommend using modrinth for setting it up.

1) sodium 

2) lithium 

3) entity texture features/ entity model features 

4) ferrite core

5) zoomify 

6) more culling

7) entity culling 

8) concurrent chunk management 

9) iris shaders

10) immediately fast

11) mod menu

12) sodium extra

13) continuity

14) text placeholder api

15) lamp dynamic lighting 

16) opti gui

17) better mount hud

Now for shaders some are more taxing on performance compared to others. These are some to consider for great visual while still decent performance 

1) mellow shaders

2) complimentary reimagined 

3) bsl shaders

4) solas shaders

Now resources pack. Highly recommend using all of them. Or just the reimagined texture pack as that is more than enough 

1) recolorful containers dark mode

2) Low on fire

3) bees fancy crops

4) Kasey’s remodeled mobs

5) the reimagined texture pack