Dawn (Feather) Client Alternatives¶
Please note that this page may be outdated due to Minecraft update cycles.
Feather, on numerous occasions, has been caught illegally stealing code and breaking other mod's licenses. Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence, their admins and moderators refuse to acknowledge it and avoid it. Feather is also unsupported by many mod authors, as Feather is closed source and obfuscated, and so incompatibilies cannot be fixed by mod authors. It is not recommended to use Feather or support the developers behind the "client". All major performance improvements can be gotten from using the original mods that Feather leeches off.
Additionally, I do not personally trust them. If they are unable to write their own code for their features, I do not trust them to write proper security measures as by using Feather you are essentially giving them access to your Microsoft/Minecraft account. Their Discord server also refuses to ban scammers, as on several occasions myself and others have been told that it is not their problem.
It is recommended that you read the Migrating to Latest list first, as it includes all recommended mods that are not included here, as well as a full guide on how to install these mods and Fabric.
Modpacks¶
If you are too lazy to install all these mods yourself and want a one-click cohesive client experience like Feather Client, we recommend using these modpacks:
- OneClient
- OneClient is currently only available via its custom launcher, a Modrinth modpack is currently in review
- Note that OneClient contains in-game purchases such as cosmetics that can be completely disabled if desired
- More to come!
Visuals¶
- Animations - Animatium
- Block Overlay - Simple Block Overlay
- Clear Water - Vanilla Tweaks Resourcepack / Terrain
- Custom Crosshair - Custom Crosshair
- FOV Changer - Partially in vanilla's accessibility menu
- Glint - Vanilla Tweaks Resourcepack / World of Color > Enchantment Glints
- Hitbox - PolyHitbox
- Item Physics - ItemPhysic Lite & ItemPhysic Lite Config
- Nick Hider - Simple Nick Hider
- Particles - Sodium Extra
- Time Changer - PolyTime
- Waypoints - Xaero's Minimap (Minimap feature may be bannable on some servers like Hypixel)
- Weather Changer - PolyWeather
- Zoom - Zoomify
HUD¶
- Armor Status - EvergreenHUD / Armor HUD
- Armor HUD - Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed
- Attack Indicator - Enhanced Attack Indicator
- Boss Bar - VanillaHUD
- CPS - TipTapShow
- Combo Display - EvergreenHUD
- Coordinates - EvergreenHUD / Coordinates Display
- Direction - EvergreenHUD
- FPS - EvergreenHUD / FPS - Display / SimpleHUD
- Item Counter - ?
- Item Info - EvergreenHUD / Held Item Info
- Pack Display - EvergreenHUD
- Ping - EvergreenHUD / SimpleHUD
- Potion Effects - EvergreenHUD / Status Effect Bars / Effect Timer Plus
- Reach Display - EvergreenHUD
- Saturation - AppleSkin / EvergreenHUD
- Scoreboard - VanillaHUD
- Time - EvergreenHUD
Hypixel¶
- AutoFriend - Hytils Reborn
- Auto Tip - Hypixel AutoTip
- Auto GG - Hytils Reborn
- Anti GG - Hytils Reborn
- LevelHead - ?
Other¶
- Auto Text - Command Keys (May be bannable on some servers like Hypixel, depending on what it is used for)
- Discord - CraftPresence
- Oof Mod - ?
- Perspective - Freelook (May be bannable on some servers, auto disabled on hypixel)
- Screenshot - Screenshot Message Enhancer
- Scrollable Tooltips - Tooltip Scroll
- Server Address - EvergreenHUD
- Snaplook - ?
- Toggle Sprint - PolySprint
- Voice - Simple Voice Chat
General¶
Blur Settings¶
Sound¶
- Portal Sounds - Sound Controller
Keybinds¶
- Custom Dropstack - ?
Chat Options¶
Chat Settings¶
- Toggle Chat - Chatting & Chat Tweaks / Vanilla
- Unlimited Scrollbar - ?
- Background Color - Chatting
- Text Shadow - Sciophobia
Stack Messages¶
- Stack Messages - Chat Tweaks
- Consecutive Messages Only - Chat Tweaks
Mentions¶
- Highlight - ChatHighlighter
- Color - ?
- Bold - ?
- Own Messages - ?
Performance¶
- Performance Improvements - See my full list of performance mods
Rendering Settings¶
- Use Fast Rendering - Sodium
- Use Direct Memory Access - Sodium
- Use Fast Font Rendering - ImmediatelyFast
- Use Static Particle Color - Particle Core (Improves performance of brightness calculations to make it not an issue instead of removing it entirely)
- Lazy Chunk Loading - Sodium
Light Settings¶
Advanced Settings¶
- Use Culling - Entity Culling
- Cull Nametags - Entity Culling
Cosmetics¶
- Cosmetics - Cosmetica
External Mods¶
- Flashback Replay Mod
- OptiFine (see alternatives)
- Xaero's Minimap
- SimpleVoiceChat (modern alternative to MumbleLink)
- HD Skins
- Packed Packs (alternative to Recursive Resources / Resource Pack Organiser))
- OptiFabric - Do not use.
- Iris
- ModMenu
- RoughlyEnoughItems
- MaLiLib
- Durability101
- MouseTweaks (Bannable on some servers like Hypixel!)
- ClientTweaks
- WTHIT
- Multiconnect
- Origins
- 3D Skin Layers
- Continuity
- CIT Resewn (Outdated!)
- Indium - Do not use!
- Balm
- Architectury
- Cloth Config
- Sodium
- Lithium
- ScalableLux (fork of Starlight)
- LazyDFU
- Entity Culling
- Litematica