This is light-weight modpack, that just enhances and fixes vanilla Minecraft 1.18 experience with some quality of life mods. Based on Fabric.

No gameplay modifications!

You can connect to any vanilla server with this modpack.

NEW ABILITIES

Voice chat for servers supporting it (you can still connect to vanilla servers, but there will be no voice chat) (Simple Voice Chat)
Take notes per server and world with just pressing N button! (Notes)

QUALITY OF LIFE

Item browser (Roughly Enough Items)
Xaero's Minimap and Xaero's World Map
Info about item you are looking at (WTHIT)
Useful tooltips additions for WTHIT (megane)
Various mouse wheel related actions (Mouse Wheelie)
Much more informative tooltips (Inspecio)
Items blink when close to despawn (Clear Despawn)
Chat Heads
Zoom on keypress (Logical Zoom)
Visualization of saturation and exhaustion to the HUD (AppleSkin)
Light level overlay on F7 (Light Overlay)
Epic RPG-style advancements (Advancement Plaques)
Bigger advancements window (Advancements Enlarger)
Ability to favorite worlds, servers and protect them from deleting (Cherished Worlds)
All eggs in creative mode are moved to separate tab (Egg Tab)

VISUALS AND SOUND

Nice reverberation and sound muffling effects (Sound Physics)
Pleasant footstep sounds (Presence Footsteps)
New animations (Not Enough Animations)
Pretty ambient lights (Illuminations)
Falling Leaves
Independent rotation of the camera from a third person view (Better Third Person)
Smooth grass blocks connection (LambdaBetterGrass)
Use torch in hand to light area (LambDynamicLights)
Realistic and cool animations for elytra flying (Cool Elytra Roll)

FIXES

Dark Loading Screen
No potion particles in first person (CleanView)
Exact axolotl color in a bucket (Axolotl Bucket Fix)
Tooltips that are too large to fit on the screen are compact now (ToolTipFix)
Additional modifiers for hotkeys (Amecs)

TECHNICAL

Mod configuration menu (Mod Menu)
Ready for Custom Item Textures from resource packs (CIT Resewn)
Connected textures (Continuity)
Biome colormaps for water, foliage, underwater, underlava, sky, and fog (Colormatic)

~~LazyDFU~~ (removed, so your 1.17 worlds would be compatible)
Krypton
Entity Culling
Sodium
Reese's Sodium Options
Sodium Extra
Indium
Iris Shaders (ready for 1.18 shaders! Just drop them into shaderpacks folder)
FerritCore
Lithium

Minecraft 1.18 requires Java 17! Don't forget to download, install and set this version for VC&FC in MultiMC or vanilla launcher settings.

To maximize your FPS, go to Video settings, turn Biome Blend off and set Render Distance and Simulation Distance to 10.

Also, setting Max Framerate to unlimited and turning off VSync may boost your FPS too.

Did you know?

You can use CurseForge app or even MultiMC to install this modpack in a few clicks. Go get it!

Going beyond

Are you looking for even better, epic and stunning visuals? Look no more! Install Complementary shaders and Mizuno's 16 Craft resource pack (Minecraft Java Edition 1.18 Caves & Cliffs Part 2 Update version) and you will get something truly breathtaking.

Vanilla Caves and Fabric Cliffs