Best utility mods for Minecraft in 2014

There are many occasions where I have been in Minecraft and wanted additional usability. For instance, I am one of those people that likes to explore the World of Minecraftia and ends up losing the location of their house. I am also one of those people that doesn't remeber all the crafting recipes for the incredibly large amounts of mods. Being that I frequently have a large amount of mods installed, I also sometimes can't tell what mod a block or item is from. Additionally, I am frequently trying to build really big structures in creative mode but I am not fond of placing each blog individually. I have rounded up a list of some of mods which I use to solve these issues. I don't have these mods listed in much of a particular order.

Increase framerate, decrease lag, and get better support for Resoure Packs with OptiFine for Minecraft 1.7.x, 1.6.4, and 1.5.2

OptiFine is a mod for Minecraft that increases framerate, enhances support for resource and texture packs, decreases lag, ads graphical enhancements such as random mobs, adds anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering, and adds an assortment of other features. It comes in a number of versions that each have different levels of enhancements making this mod suitable for use on many different computers. Go to the forum page for the mod for downloads and more details.

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