CurseForge link

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/keep-the-resourcepack

CurseForge Mod Distribution

Allowed

Modrinth link

https://modrinth.com/mod/keep-the-resourcepack

Source/other link

https://github.com/focamacho/KeepTheResourcePack/tree/fabric-1.20.x

Mod file size

5.9 KB

License

(any other license)

What it does

It keeps the Server resource pack always loaded. This mod also caches the latest server resource pack and loads it when the game is starting. The result is the player having to load the resource pack only one time.

Why should it be in the modpack

Not everyone has a beefy PC, so having ResourcePacks loading and unloading everytime you join/leave the server is painful.

Why shouldn't it be in the modpack

If the player plays on a lot of servers, then the mod has to load a lot of extra resource packs on game startup, so perhaps longer load time?

Additional details

There's also this mod: https://modrinth.com/mod/resourcepackcached

If the user wants to do that, it is already fairly trivial - just find the cached pack from server-resource-packs folder and copy it to resourcepacks, then apply.

IMHO this isn't very obvious to most players, and isn't convenient to do for every server either. Also, you have to stay up to date with the updates the server's resource pack and manually do this again every time.

Additionally, the mod pack already has a different mod that allows users to join the server and load server resource packs in the background, while already being able to (somewhat) play the server.

Fair, but when you're joining and leaving a server more than twice in a single sitting, having to sit through the laggy game while the resource pack is loading easily gets annoying.

Another problem with the mod is that it is not really optimization of any kind, it is an opinionated pre-selection.
In other words, if the server resource pack contains changes to vanilla look (besides adding new things), or when the user visits a server with a resource pack less often than one without, then the game just looks unexpectedly different. The player might when think that there is something wrong with that server or pack as it persists.

Therefore this mod unfortunately cannot be added.

If the user wants to do that, it is already fairly trivial - just find the cached pack from server-resource-packs folder and copy it to resourcepacks, then apply.

Additionally, the mod pack already has a different mod that allows users to join the server and load server resource packs in the background, while already being able to (somewhat) play the server.