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Rendering and Graphics

* Continuity: A complete replacement for the Minecraft renderer that significantly increases frame rates and reduces micro-stuttering. * Continuity: Adds extra features to the Sodium settings menu, such as animations and particle toggles. * Continuity: The bridge that allows you to run shaders while using Sodium's performance engine. * Continuity: Reorganizes the Sodium settings menu into a cleaner, more navigable layout with tabs. * Continuity: Reintroduces vanilla-like smooth lighting to non-full blocks (e.g. dirt paths and how they have dark shading when directly next to a full block) when using Sodium. * Continuity: Optimizes the rendering of immediate mode graphics, which primarily improves performance when viewing the UI, containers, and entity text. * Continuity: Prevents the game from rendering objects and entities that are hidden behind walls or outside your field of vision, saving system resources. * Continuity: Adds dynamic lighting to the game, allowing held items like torches to illuminate the environment without requiring a shader pack. * Continuity: Enables support for connected textures via built in texture packs, allowing blocks like glass and sandstone to blend together seamlessly for a cleaner look.

Logic and Memory Optimization

* Better Block Entities: A general-purpose optimization mod for the game's internal systems, improving physics, AI, and block ticking without changing vanilla behavior. * Better Block Entities: Specifically designed to reduce memory (RAM) usage by optimizing how the game stores block states and models. * Better Block Entities: A comprehensive suite of bug fixes and performance improvements that targets long loading times and high memory consumption. * Better Block Entities: Despite the name, this mod improves performance by removing or streamlining redundant rendering calls in the game's code. * Better Block Entities: Changes the way chests, signs, and other block entities are rendered to make them less taxing on the GPU.

World and Server Performance

* Scalable Lux: Enhances the game's ability to process world data on multiple processor cores, leading to faster world loading and smoother exploration. * Scalable Lux: Optimizes the way the game handles networking and player data, which is essential for maintaining performance on servers with high player counts. * Scalable Lux: A complete rewrite of the Minecraft lighting engine. It speeds up the calculation of lighting data, which reduces lag during world generation and helps prevent "lighting updates" from causing frame drops while you are moving through the world.

Quality of Life and Visuals

* Chat Heads: Adds social features including a friend list, world hosting for easy multiplayer without a server, and an in-game cosmetics system. * Chat Heads: Provides a high-quality proximity voice chat system for multiplayer environments. * Chat Heads: Replaces flat 2D skin overlays with 3D versions, giving player skins more depth and detail. * Chat Heads: Adds physics to capes so they flow naturally with movement rather than remaining stiff. * Chat Heads: Makes the chat box feel more modern by adding smooth sliding animations to incoming messages. * Chat Heads: Displays the face of the player next to their message in the chat window.

Utilities and Fixes

* Required APIs: Fixes specific bugs found on the Minecraft bug tracker. * Required APIs: Allows you to change languages instantly without the game freezing or reloading all assets, and adds a search bar to the language menu. * Required APIs: Groups experience orbs together into a single entity to prevent lag when large amounts of XP are dropped at once. * Required APIs: Adds a screen to view and configure all installed mods from the main menu. * Required APIs: A zoom mod with lots of customizibility. * Required APIs: Background libraries that allow all the above mods to communicate with the Fabric loader and each other.

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Version Support Breakdown

| Version | Support Status | | :--- | :--- | | 1.21.1 - 1.21.10 | ✅ Fully Supported | | 1.21.1 - 1.21.10 | ✅ Fully Supported | | 1.21.1 - 1.21.10 | ❌ Might eventually get updates |

*note: not all features are supported in every version of Minecraft and are going to change over time.*