Projects i prefer to use

Displays a map of the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which help you find the locations you've marked.

Adds a full screen world map which shows you what you have explored in the world. Works great together with Xaero's Minimap.

Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

Sound Controller is a mod that provides complete control over the volume of every sound in the game.

A Ray tracing implementation to have Sound Physics in Minecraft. I believe this is more accurate + sounds better than Sound Physics mod.