Mod List¶
A work-in-progress list of 1.8.9 mods. Please feel free to contribute!
How to Install¶
To install Forge for 1.8.9, please read the guides for installing Modrinth or Prism Launcher. You can install either one. Installing Forge for the official Minecraft launcher is not recommended and will not be supported by this guide.
Performance¶
| Mod | Description | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ksyxis | Reduces world loading times. | VidTu | This mod only works in single player and will disable spawn chunks entirely. |
| MicroOptimizations | Caching and block pos pooling optimizations ported from Feather Client's open source optimization mod. | Microcontrollers | This mod can sometimes cause ghost blocks to appear in worlds. These are purely visual and do not cause any issues such as rubberbanding. If it happens often, simply remove the mod from your mods folder. |
| OptiFine | One of the oldest performance mods for Minecraft. Required for many resource packs as well. | sp614x | This is a direct download that skips OptiFine's ads. |
| PolyPatcher | PolyPatcher fixes several Minecraft bugs, adds many performance improvements, and adds many quality of life features. | Sk1erLLC & Polyfrost | This is a fork of the original Patcher mod by Sk1er. It removes one-off features that have been improved in other mods, adds a few more QOL changes, and has several new bug fixes, crash fixes, and performance enhancements. |
| QuickQuit | Allows closing Minecraft during the Forge resource loading screen when starting the game. | Microcontrollers | |
| Redirector / Redirectionor | Decreases memory usage by replacing enum value calls with static final field references. | MCTeamPotato | |
| Velox Caelo | Caches some OptiFine CIT calculations. Especially noticable with SkyBlock resource packs. | nea89o | Requires OptiFine. |
Other (needs to be sorted better eventually)¶
| Mod | Description | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20-20-20 | A mod that reminds users to take a short break to avoid eye strain. | Sk1erLLC & Microcontrollers | This is a fork of the original mod, but utilizing OneConfig. |
| 3D Skin Layers | Replaces the standard flat second layer of player skins with a 3D modeled version. | tr7zw | |
| BehindYouV3 | A modern, non-2018 take on the BehindYou mod. Allows looking behind you without pressing F5 twice. Also adds camera animations. | Polyfrost | |
| Better Hurt Cam | Lets you customize the hurtcam when hit. | Scherso | |
| Block Overlay | Allows you to customize the select overlay on blocks. | Aycy | No source or official download available. The provided download is hosted on SkyClient. |
| Blur | Adds a customizable blur effect to all your GUIs. | tterag | Add net.optifine.gui.GuiChatOF to exclusions list to fix blur on chat window when using OptiFine. |
| Canalex Keystrokes Revamp | Displays WASD, left and right click, spacebar, sneak, cps, fps, ping, and more custom keyboard buttons on-screen. | Canalex & Polyfrost | |
| Chatting | Chatting is a chat mod adding utilities such as extremely customizable chat tabs, chat shortcuts, chat screenshots, and message copying. | Polyfrost | |
| ChatTriggers | ChatTriggers is a framework for Minecraft that allows for live scripting and client modification using JavaScript. | ChatTriggers Team | Modules can be found on their site, and depending on their quality may substantially decrease FPS. |
| ColorSaturation | Simple color saturation mod for 1.8.9. | Polyfrost | |
| Controlling | Adds more options in controls menu to make it easier to navigate. | jaredlll08 | |
| Craftify | Craftify allows you to connect to music services to display and control them in-game. | ThatGravyBoat | Supports Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Foobar, and DeaDBeeF. |
| CrashPatch | Attempts to stops crashes from closing your game and provides a solution if found. | Polyfrost | CrashPatch is meant for simpler crashes and may lead to a broken gamestate. Restart your game should this happen. |
| DamageTilt | Makes your camera tilt in a different direction based on the origin of damage. | Charles445 | Provided download is from SkyClient due to the GitHub release containing many binaries for different versions and potentially being confusing. Official downloads can be found here. |
| Entity Glow | Backports 1.9+'s entity glow/outline feature to 1.8.9. | Microcontrollers | |
| EvergreenHUD | Adds many popular HUD elements not included in other mods. | isXander & Polyfrost | |
| Glint Colorizer | Lets you customize the glint color of items. | Polyfrost | |
| ItemPhysic Lite | Makes dropped items land on the ground realistically instead of falling straight and floating. | CreativeMD | |
| In-Game Account Switcher | Lets you log into and switch accounts without needing to relaunch the game or log into other accounts in your launcher. | The-Fireplace | |
| Item Counter | Show the amount of items you have on screen, easily configurable. Read the project description for instructions. | ImToggle | |
| Mixmetica | A free cosmetics mod that works by patching Arcmetica directly into OptiFine. | Microcontrollers | Get cosmetics from Cosmetica by logging in using Microsoft. Requires OptiFine. |
| NoBreakThatBlock | Stops you from punching or moving mouse when clicking back into an alt tabbed Minecraft with F3+P enabled. | Cecer | |
| Not So Essential | Removes many things that Essential adds that you may not want. | Scherso | |
| OofMod | Plays custom sounds when you kill other players. | powns | |
| Optibye | Prevents Optifine from logging completely useless information. | ThatGravyBoat | |
| OverflowAnimations | Extremely precise and advanced old animations mod for 1.8.9. Also adds many other features such as backporting features and new features, as well as first person held item transformations. | Polyfrost | |
| OverflowParticles | Extremely precise and advanced particle mod for 1.8.9. | Polyfrost | |
| ParticlesEnhanced | Adds many particle features such as fade out and customizable critical and sharpness particles. | isXander & Microcontrollers | |
| PolyCrosshair | An extremely customizable crosshair mod. | Polyfrost | |
| PolyBlur | Apply motion blur in-game in various customizable ways. | Polyfrost | |
| PolyHitbox | An extremely customizable hitbox mod. | Polyfrost | |
| PolyNametag | An extremely customizable nametag mod. | Polyfrost | |
| PolyTime | Allows the user to configure what client-side time is displayed. | Polyfrost | |
| PolySprint | PolySprint is a simple yet feature-versatile toggle sprint/sneak mod. | Polyfrost | |
| PolyWeather | Allows the user to configure what client-side weather is displayed. | Polyfrost | |
| Potion Effects | A highly customizable potion effects HUD. | Tellinq | |
| QuickConfig | Replaces Forge's mod config screen with the OneConfig menu. | Microcontrollers | Very buggy in the main menu as OneConfig and mods expect a world to be loaded. Works fine in the pause menu. |
| Raw Input | Allows your mouse input to go directly to Minecraft, without any acceleration provided by your system. Fixes high polling rate issues. | xCuri0, Mixces, & Erymanthus | This may cause your mouse to be completely unresponsive in Minecraft. Simply remove the mod if that is the case. |
| Redaction | Redaction adds HUDs to your game that are normally classified as "cheat-client" modules. | Polyfrost | |
| ReplayMod | ReplayMod lets you record your gameplay to watch back later. | CrushedPixel & johni0702 | |
| Resource Pack Manager | Makes the resource pack menu load faster and adds some more useful features such as searching and folder/grouping support. | Aycy | Can mess up order of packs upon launching game if multiple packs are enabled. |
| Resourcify | Adds an in-game downloader and updater for Modrinth resource packs and shaders. | DeDiamondPro | |
| Serverlist Buffer Fixer | Fixes the server data in the multiplayer menu from infinitely loading. | Nixuge | |
| Sound Subtitles | Backports the subtitles HUD from newer MC versions. | Sk1erLLC | |
| VanillaHUD | A mod that modifies various vanilla HUD elements, such as the bossbar, action bar, and sidebar. | Polyfrost | |
| WaveyCapes | Makes the cape wavey, similar to the cloth capes in Lunar Client. | tr7zw |
Hypixel¶
| Mod | Description | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutoTip | An easy way to get experience and coins for free, automatically. | Semx11 & Sk1erLLC | Uses Essential. |
| BedWar Mod | Multifeature mod for Hypixel Bedwars. | CalMWolfs | |
| Hypixel Autocomplete | Allows you to autocomplete Hypixel commands to player names on your friends list, guild, and local players. | Sk1erLLC | Uses Essential. |
| Hytils Reborn | Adds tons of Quality of Life features that you would want while on Hypixel, such as an advertisement blocker, auto queue, auto GL, height overlay, game status restyle, command auto complete for /play, and plenty other of features. | Polyfrost | |
| LevelHead | Levelhead is built for the Hypixel server. The mod displays the Hypixel Network Level & other statistics of a player above their head, in chat and in tab. | Sk1erLLC | Uses Essential. |
| Nick Hider | Attempts to hides your identity on Hypixel when streaming. | Sk1erLLC | Uses Essential. |
| Popup Events | Popup Events allows you to swiftly accept any supported event on Hypixel. | Sk1erLLC | Uses Essential. |
| Quickjoin | Quickly join any game on Hypixel via a custom GUI. | QWERTZexe | |
| ReportPlus | Report+ is a Hypixel mod that improves their reporting UI to allow the player to stay on 1 screen rather than switch between multiple. | ThatGravyBoat | Uses Essential. |
| Reward Claim | Reward Claim allows you to claim your Hypixel rewards in-game rather than on their website. | ThatGravyBoat | Uses Essential. |
| Zombies-Utils | Utility mod for Hypixel Zombies. | Stachelbeere1248 |
SkyBlock¶
| Mod | Description | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apec | Apec provides a nice HUD improvement with a sleek blackbar at the bottom of your screen, making the game feel more like an RPG. | BananaFructa | |
| BazaarNotifier | Mod for Hypixel Skyblock that helps with tracking bazaar sell offer and buy order movements. | symt | |
| Cowlection | A collection of various features and enhancements mainly focused on Hypixel Skyblock with other features like log searching and stalking. | Cow | |
| Danker's Skyblock Mod | DSM provides dungeon puzzle solvers, a reparty command, custom boss music and more useful features to see for yourself. | bowser0000 | |
| Dulkir Mod | A general quality of life mod for SkyBlock. | inglettronald | Use OverflowAnimations for item transformations instead. |
| Dungeons Guide | A highly advanced Hypixel Skyblock dungeons mod, with secrets pathfinding, among other features. | Dungeons Guide Team | |
| Dungeon Rooms Mod | Displays information about the dungeon room you are currently in and adds waypoints for secrets. | Quantizr | |
| NotEnoughUpdates | NEU is the essential modification for playing Skyblock, featuring locking slots, fishing notifications, a giant list of every Skyblock item in the game, and an in-game wiki page renderer for the items in the list. There are many, many more features than these, and new features are always being added. | NEU Team | |
| Partly Sane Skies | PSS is a QoL mod to ease the boring and repetitive parts of Skyblock, such as spotting cheap auctions, finding best prices, and much more. We're constantly developing and we aim to be a mod designed by the community, for the community. | PartlySaneStudios | |
| Scatha-Pro | A mod for improved Scatha farming on Hypixel Skyblock - adds several alerts, a UI overlay, Scatha related achievements and more. | NamelessJu's | |
| SkyblockAddons Unofficial | The most popular and one of the oldest mods for Skyblock, SBA has a lot to offer. | Biscuit & Fix3dll | This is a fork of the original mod which is now EOL. |
| SkyblockHUD Death Defied | SBH focuses on enhancing the HUD to feel like more of an RPG. | ThatGravyBoat, Erymanthus, & Nea | |
| SkyblockPersonalized | A mod with a lot of customizability and a large variety of features including auto teleport to Garry, disable mining messages, disable specific messages, and showing player's dungeons stats with more for the user to discover. | Cobble8 | |
| SkyGuide | A mod that aims to improve the Hypixel SkyBlock experience in a vanilla-like way. Current features include a map of SkyBlock and NPC locations. | DeDiamondPro | |
| SkyHanni | A Skyblock mod with a lot of features, especially for the garden. | hannibal2 | Requires NotEnoughUpdates. |
| Skytils | Introduces some useful puzzle solvers, a reparty command, spam hider for Skyblock, and a ton more with lots to come in the future. | Skytils Team | Uses Essential. |
| WaterSolver | A simple Water Board solver. Solves all 40 Water Board layouts in a single water flow, considerably faster than other solvers. | Desco1 |
Not Recommended¶
| Mod | Reason | Author |
|---|---|---|
| AutoGG | Use Hytils Reborn | Sk1erLLC |
| BedwarsHearts | Use Hytils Reborn | Moulberry |
| Better Night Vision | Use PolyPatcher | Microcontrollers |
| BetterFPS | Use PolyPatcher | Guichaguri |
| BetterScaledGui | Use PolyPatcher | Moulberry |
| Case Commands | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| Command Patcher | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| Compact Chat | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| Clean View | Use OverflowParticles | LianMI |
| Cross Chat | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| Entity Culling | Use PolyPatcher | tr7zw |
| Fancy Warp Menu | Use SkyblockAddons Unofficial | TirelessTraveler |
| FoamFix | The 1.8 port has issues. Use PolyPatcher for memory improvements. | asiekierka |
| Fullbright | Use PolyPatcher | Unknown |
| Height Limit Mod | Use Hytils Reborn | catsonluna |
| HitDelayFix | This mod is bannable on all 1.8+ only servers. It is not a fix, it is a cheat. | ghast |
| Hychat | Use Chatting & Hytils Reborn | Moulberry |
| InputFix | Use PolyPatcher | LianMI |
| Item Optimizations | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| LobbyGlow | Use Entity Glow | Biscuut |
| Lobby Sounds | Use Hytils Reborn | Sk1erLLC |
| MCHudCaching | Use PolyPatcher | Moulberry |
| Memory Fix | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| Mouse Delay Fix | Use OptiFine | Sk1erLLC |
| Mouse Bind Fix | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| NoCloseMyChat | Use PolyPatcher | Cecer |
| NoHitFix | This mod is bannable on all 1.8+ only servers. It is not a fix, it is a cheat. | Moulberry |
| NoScroll | Use PolyPatcher | Revxrsal |
| OldAnimationsMod | Use OverflowAnimations | spiderfrog |
| Orange's 1.7 Animations | Use OverflowAnimations | OrangeMarshall |
| Orange's Simple Mods | Use EvergreenHUD & Potion Effects | OrangeMarshall |
| Patcher | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| PortalInputFix | Use PolyPatcher | Asbyth |
| ProjectL | Use OptiFine | OrangeMarshall |
| QuickPlay | Use Quickjoin & Reward Claim | bugfroggy |
| Resource Exploit Fix | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| Resource Pack Organizer | Use Resource Pack Manager | chylex |
| Scrollable Tooltips | Use VanillaHUD | Sk1erLLC |
| ServerListBufferFixer | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| SimpleToggleSprint | Use PolySprint | My-Name-Is-Jeff |
| Sk1er Old Animations Mod | Use OverflowAnimations | Sk1erLLC |
| SkyblockAddons | Use SkyblockAddons Unofficial | Biscuit |
| Soopy | Discontinued, see alternatives | SoopyBoo32 |
| Synthesis | Discontinued | Antonio32A, ComplexOrigin, Desco1, RayDeeUx |
| Smooth Scrolling Everywhere | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |
| TCPNoDelay | This issue was fixed in vanilla Minecraft 1.8.1 | prplz |
| Vanilla Enhancements | Use PolyPatcher & Chatting | OrangeMarshall |
| Void Chat | Use PolyPatcher | skyerzz |
| Windowed Fullscreen | Use PolyPatcher | Sk1erLLC |