Meteor Client for Minecraft 1.16.5 is a popular free and open-source utility client built on the Fabric mod loader. It

Run the Fabric installer, select 1.16.5 , and click "Install".

Critics rightly point out that Meteor Client ruins the experience of legitimate players on standard survival or faction servers. A player using its "ChestAura" to instantly loot containers or "Velocity" to negate knockback cannot be fought fairly. This has led to the rise of anti-cheat plugins like Grim or Vulcan, which specifically target Meteor’s known packet manipulations. The arms race between client developers and server administrators is a defining feature of the 1.16.5 era. Each Meteor update that bypasses a new anti-cheat is met with a server patch, and the cycle continues — a technological cold war fought in Java bytecode.

Meteor is built as a platform, meaning you can install "add-on" mods to add even more features. Popular add-ons often used for anarchy include: Meteor Rejects

Move the Meteor Client .jar file into your mods folder, select the Fabric 1.16.5 profile in your Minecraft Launcher, and hit play.

To run Meteor Client on version 1.16.5, the following setup is required:

Move both the Meteor Client .jar and the Fabric API .jar into the mods folder.