A squirrel's guide to a modded Freedonia

A SQUIRREL'S GUIDE TO A MODDED FREEDONIA

Step one: install Prism Launcher (https://prismlauncher.org/), objectively the best MC launcher. It allows for the creation and management of multiple MC instances, has in-built mod (mod loaders included!) and resource pack installers, and is just based generally.

Step two: log into your MC account via Prism. Ta-da! You're almost there.

Step three: create an instance (as of December 2025, my MCO-specific MC instance runs on version 1.21), then select Fabric as your mod loader.

Step four: steal my mod-list! If any mod does not appear when looking it up on the Modrinth page of the Prism mod-fetcher, try looking in the CurseForge page.
	3D Skin Layers - Connects the layers of MC skins. Gives more depth and character to your character!
	Advancement Plaques - Makes achievement popups pop up more.
	BadOptimizations
	Better Mount HUD - Ditto
	Better Ping Display - Ditto
	Better F3 - Ditto
	Bookshelf
	Cave Dust - Adds dust particles to underground environments.
	Chat Heads - Adds player-heads near player-names in chat.
	ChatNotify - Plays a sound when your full nickname is typed in chaat.
	Cloth Config
	Continuity - Allows connected textures.
	CoroUtil
	CreativeCore
	Detail Armor Bar - Makes your armour bar more detailed.
	Drip Sounds - Drippity drippy drip drip drop.
	Durability Tooltip - Better durability pop-ups for tools.
	Dynamic FPS
	Easy Anvils - Anvil menu glow-up.
	Eating Animation - Ditto
	Entity Model Features - Allows entity models wizardry for resource packs.
	Entity Texture Features - Allows random textures for resource packs.
	EntityCulling
	Explosive Enhancement - Better booms.
	FPS Reducer
	Fabric API
	Fabric Language Kotlin
	Fancy Door Animations - Ditto
	Fast IP Ping
	FerriteCore
	Forge Config API Port - Allows for Fabric to accept Forge mods.
	Fusion - Yet another resource pack wizardry mod.
	Fzzy Config
	Harvest - Right-click on crops to harvest.
	Highlighter - Highlights recently-picked up items in your inventory.
	Iceberg
	Jade - Shows you what block you're looking at.
	Konkrete
	Ksyxis
	LibJF
	M.R.U
	Macro Keybinds - Macros mod. Life-saver.
	Main Menu Credits
	Make Bubbles Pop - Better bubble particles.
	Mod Menu - Shows your mod-list in-game, just gotta press the big "mods" button.
	More Culling
	Mouse Tweaks - Better mouse-inventory coordination.
	Neat
	Not Enough Crashes - Better crash logs.
	PacketFixer
	Particular - Better particles.
	Pick Up Notifier - Ditto
	Placeholder API
	Polytone
	Presence Footsteps - Better footsteps sfx.
	Puzzle - Complementary to other resource pack wizardry mods.
	Puzzles Lib
	Remove Reloading Screen
	Resource Pack Options - Complementary to Resourcify.
	Resourcify - Adds better in-game resource pack navigation.
	Server Country Flags - Lets you where servers are hosted. Hello, Germany!
	Shulker Box Tooltip - Lets you see ALL items in your shulkers.
	Smooth Scroll - Makes scrolling through every menu butter-smooth.
	Sounds - Sound overhaul.
	Soundtrack Player - Lets you pick what track from MC's lovely OST to play, any time you want.
	Stendhal - Better book interface.
	SuperMartijn642's Config Library
	Text Utilities - Expanded chat and sign interface.
	Toggle Toggle Sprint - Makes sprint and crouch toggle-able.
	Very Many Players - Better server performance... sometimes.
	ViaFabricPlus - Lets you connect to servers that run on earlier MC versions.
	Visuality - More particles.
	Wakes - Boats leave wakes.
	WaveyCapes - Capes become wavy. Finally.
	Xaero's Minimap - The only minimap mod you'll ever need.
	Xaero's World Map - The only world map mod you'll ever need.
	XaeroPlus - More goodies for Xaero's mods.
	XaeroZoomout - Better zoom-out in the world map.
	YUNG's API
	YetAnotherConfigLib
	Zume - Lets you zoom by pressing Z.
	oωo
	spark

Q&A
	Q: How do I use/navigate Prism? How's [Prism X function] work?
		A: The Prism Wiki (https://prismlauncher.org/wiki/)'s the place for ya!
	Q: What's with all the seemingly useless/unexplained mods?
		A: Probably dependencies, utils, coremods, optimization -- all that sweet sweet makes-your-game-and-mods-run stuff.
	Q: How can you connect to a 1.12 server from MC 1.21?
		A: Go over the mod-list again :3
	Q: Why don't you use JEI?
		A: Don't like it. You can add it to your own instances, though!
	Q: Why don't you use Optifine?
		A: Got annoyed the first time I tried to add it to a mod-pack some ten years ago, never bothered again. You can add it to your own instances, though!
	Q: Why don't you...
		A: Let's move on already.
	Q: How did you pick these mods specifically?
		A: I thought, during one play sesh or another, "wouldn't it be cool if [whatever]?" -- and whichever mod scratched that itch, I picked.