While vanilla Minecraft is considered by many to be the best iteration of the game, other players disagree and are happy to use mods, shaders, resource packs, texture packs, and more to freshen up ...

Optifine is a performance and stability mod that allows players to use shaders, resource packs and modpacks with their version of Minecraft. Optifine was updated as soon as Minecraft 1.18 released.

After weeks of testing and refinement, Mojang Studios is finally releasing the 1.18.2 patch update for Minecraft: Java Edition, which includes dozens of fixes and technical updates.