Annuus

Annuus is a mod for minecraft networking, improves network performance and makes the game more available for running on large server.

Supported minecraft 1.21.x with fabric loader and neoforge loader, needs fabric-api when using fabric.

When the player doesn't install annuus on the client, network packet will send normally like vanilla.

Performance

Chunk data

> Deflate 1 has less CPU usage, even though that performance is not good enough here > So it be considered as a compression option

We have tested view distance as 10 (473), 12 (637), 16 (1057), 32 (3725), installed mod only fabric-api.

| env/chunks | 473 | 637 | 1027 | 3725 | |-------------------:|:----------------------:|:----------------------:|:----------------------:|:------------------------:| | Vanilla | 35.03ms
13.94MB | 40.51ms
18.74MB | 72.57ms
31.66MB | 238.69ms
122.40MB | | Annuus (Deflate 9) | 29.76ms
1.17MB | 50.46ms
2.39MB | 48.6ms
4.04MB | 163.31ms
15.98MB | | Annuus (Deflate 1) | 36.09ms
2.21MB | 51.06ms
2.96MB | 57.94ms
4.99MB | 235.22ms
19.65MB |

Block updates

> The more blocks collect the more advantages in Annuus protocol, such as very huge piston towers

And chunk delta update blocks, every time collect 1229 blocks:

| env/blocks | 2455 | 7365 | 24550 | 78560 | |-------------------:|:------:|:-------:|:-------:|:--------:| | Vanilla | 9.72KB | 29.16KB | 97.2KB | 311.06KB | | Annuus (Deflate 9) | 6.79KB | 20.39KB | 67.97KB | 217.53KB | | Annuus (Deflate 1) | 6.35KB | 19.07KB | 63.59KB | 203.5KB |

Recipes synchronize

| env/recipes | 1290 | 9587 | |-----------------------------------:|:--------:|:--------:| | Vanilla | 105.73KB | 692.2KB | | Replacement v1
(no_compress) | 94.4KB | 612.86KB | | Replacement v1
(deflate_9) | 19.61KB | 135.9KB | | Replacement v1
(deflate_1) | 24.11KB | 169.11KB |