Mods and resource packs are easy to add and have made up a large part of Minecraft since its launch, and they can be a great help for builders too. Shaders are a great way to make things look amazing, and resource packs can do everything from subtle improvements like saturating a texture to giving you whole new color palettes to work with, like the colorful leaves pictured – they’re really just oak and acacia.
Similarly, there are numerous up-to-date mods that are very useful. Two examples are Tweakeroo, which provides countless options to improve a builder’s quality of life, and Litematica, which allows you to copy templates of builds to work from – ideal for those who like to brainstorm in Creative worlds first.