"Simple Squared" is designed to provide a lightweight, optimized Vanilla+ experience, perfect for players who love the vanilla feel but want better exploration, building options, and quality of life improvements.

✅ Lightweight! Only 30 mods – No bloated content!
✅ Smooth performance with Sodium & Lithium!
✅ New dungeons, better structures, and variety of buildings!

Enjoy the Vanilla Experience without feeling bored of Minecraft.

💡 Summary: Who is This Modpack For?

• Beginner Players – Keeps vanilla simplicity while improving ease of use.
• Veteran Players – Provides quality-of-life enhancements without altering core mechanics.
• Builders & Explorers – Expands decor options and world variety.
• Low-End PC Users – Optimized for smooth performance.
• Casual & Hardcore Players – Balanced for all playstyles, without unnecessary complexity.
• The "Can't Play Without Shader" Players  – Comes with the shaders built in the modpack so players don't have to manually download them. 

"Simple Squared" enhances the vanilla Minecraft experience with Quality of Life improvements and expanded decoration options, allowing players to unleash their creativity without the burden of excessive mods. Its lightweight design ensures smooth performance, making it accessible to all players. Overall, Simple Squared ensures a fun, engaging, and visually enhanced vanilla-like experience while avoiding the boredom of traditional gameplay. 🎮✨

Features Offered by the "Simple Squared"

This modpack enhances the vanilla Minecraft experience by incorporating Quality of Life (QoL), informational, decorative, optimization, and shader mods without overwhelming players with excessive content. Below are the key features and how they affect user experience.

🎮 Only 30 Implemented Mods!

1️⃣ Quality of Life (QoL) Enhancements

✅ Waystones – Fast travel system via waystones for easier world navigation.
✅ Nature's Compass – Allows players to locate biomes quickly.
✅ Elytra Slot – Provides a dedicated slot for Elytra, allowing armor and wings simultaneously.
✅ NetherPortalFix – Ensures accurate linking of Nether portals to the correct Overworld locations.
✅ Polymorph – Prevents crafting conflicts by letting players choose between multiple crafting recipes.
✅ Simple Backpack – Adds craftable backpacks for additional inventory space.
✅ Tom’s Storage – Adds modular storage solutions for better inventory organization.

🟢 Impact on User Experience:

• Speeds up travel and reduces frustration when searching for biomes.
• Enhances gameplay fluidity by resolving crafting conflicts and Nether portal misalignment.
• Improves inventory management with dedicated Elytra slots.

2️⃣ Information Mods for Better Understanding

🔍 AppleSkin – Displays additional food and saturation values.
🔍 JourneyMap – A real-time, interactive map with waypoints and cave mapping.
🔍 Enchantment Descriptions – Shows detailed descriptions of enchantments.
🔍 JEI (Just Enough Items) – Allows players to view and search for crafting recipes.
🔍 JEED (Just Enough Effect Descriptions) – Displays potion effect details.
🔍 Jade – Provides information about blocks, items, and mobs.
🔍 JustEnoughBreeding – Displays breeding mechanics for animals.

🟢 Impact on User Experience:

• Simplifies crafting and resource management with recipe lookup and drop information.
• Reduces confusion when applying enchantments.
• Improves navigation with an advanced minimap and waypoints.
• Provides a better understanding of hunger mechanics, helping beginner players manage food effectively.

3️⃣ Enhanced Decoration & Building Options

🏡 Biomes O’ Plenty – Expands world generation with new biomes and blocks.
🏡 Macaw’s Mods – Adds decorative furniture, windows, roofs, bridges, and more.
🏡 Yung’s Better "Everything" – Improves Minecraft’s vanilla structures with better dungeons, mineshafts, strongholds, and more.

🟢 Impact on User Experience:

• Encourages creativity with customization tools for architecture and landscapes.
• Makes exploration more engaging with new biomes.
• Enhances immersion with better animations and UI customization.

4️⃣ Performance & Optimization Improvements

🚀 Sodium – Drastically improves FPS and reduces lag.
🚀 Lithium – Optimizes game physics and performance.
🚀 ModernFix – Improves memory usage and enhances server performance.

🟢 Impact on User Experience:

• Smoother gameplay, especially on low-end PCs.
• Reduces lag spikes and stuttering, improving overall playability and stability.

5️⃣ Visual & Shader Enhancements

🌄 Complementary Shaders - Reimagined – Adds beautiful lighting, shadows, and water reflections.
🌄 Complementary Unbound – Provides cinematic-quality visuals with enhanced ambient effects.
🎨 Better Animations Collection – Enhances entity animations for a smoother experience.
🎨 Eating Animation – Adds realistic animations when consuming food.
🎨 Seamless Loading Screen – Makes world loading transitions smooth.

🟢 Impact on User Experience:

• Creates a breathtaking atmosphere without deviating from vanilla aesthetics.
• Enhances immersion through realistic lighting and improved visuals.

With this pack, you can easily set up a multiplayer server for Simple Squared!

**📜 Setup Instructions:**

1️⃣ Download and unzip the file.

2️⃣ Open the folder and edit `server.properties` to your preference.

3️⃣ Run `start.bat` (Windows) or `start.sh` (Mac/Linux).

4️⃣ Ensure `eula.txt` is set to `eula=true`.

5️⃣ Invite your friends and enjoy!

⚠️ **Make sure you are using Fabric 1.21.1 to run this server!**

💻 System Requirements

Minimum: 4GB RAM, Intel i3, GTX 750
Recommended: 6GB+ RAM, Ryzen 5, GTX 1050 Ti

💬 Join Our Community

💻 Discord: [Might make one 😝]
📢 Feedback & Bug Reports: [Leave a Comment! I will try to get back as soon as possible.]

"Simple Squared" is designed to provide a balanced and enjoyable vanilla-like Minecraft experience for all types of players. With Quality of Life enhancements, informational tools, expanded decoration options, and performance optimizations, this modpack eliminates frustration while encouraging creativity and immersion.

By keeping the mod count light at only 21, players can enjoy a smooth, optimized experience without the clutter of overwhelming content. Whether you're a beginner exploring the basics, a veteran seeking refinements, a builder unleashing creativity, or a casual player wanting a relaxed experience, Simple Squared ensures that Minecraft remains fun, engaging, and visually appealing—without losing its vanilla charm.

Dive into the world of Simple Squared and rediscover Minecraft in a fresh, exciting way! 🎮✨