Recommended OptiFine alternatives on Fabric

optifine_alternatives_fabric.md

The list is moving out!

If you share this list, please use this link instead: https://lambdaurora.dev/optifine_alternatives

It may still be only a redirection link, but it will have a better web display of the list soon. And the list being on GitHub/GitHub pages improves load times.

The gist version of this list will stop being updated.

Why?

OptiFine was originally a great mod offering many quality of life improvements for player in the beginning. However, over the years, its benefits have dwindled and has caused many issues for modders. This is due to Minecraft's codebase improving over the years and OptiFine's aggressiveness towards replacing entire swaths of code while being closed source making it very difficult to figure out why OptiFine has broken another modder's mod. Also worth noting that OptiFine natively doesn't support Fabric and it's hard to maintain OptiFabric.

In the modern Minecraft era, with Fabric's community effort, modders have begun to create alternatives for most of OptiFine's features to allow players to maintain better performance, better mod compatibility, and better support.

OptiFabric: A note about the 1.16 crashes

This list

This list will list recommended OptiFine alternatives by me (LambdAurora), so it has some requirements for mods to be listed here:

• They must be publicly available, if it's only accessible through Discord they are not eligible.
• Mods must respect the Minecraft's EULA.
• Mods must not refer to a cheat client.
• Mods that change gameplay in a way (e.g. zoom) that have a way for servers to disable them will be favored.

This list now has a fancy URL: https://lambdaurora.dev/optifine_alternatives

Alternatives

[Read More at https://lambdaurora.dev/optifine_alternatives]

Other lists

• Useful Fabric server-side mods
• The future of Optifabric and Recommended alternatives

does anyone know if there is a fabric mod that works like the thing with optifine where when you name it, it changes to a new texture?

CIT Resewn. Check the first link in the gist. This list is outdated.

@DestroyerKat if you’re talking about items, cit resewn or chime (it’s been updated to 1.18). If you’re talking about mobs, reselect currently works as varied mobs, but it will be split into a separate mod in the future

thank you both

Random Entities was finally added by @Traben-0.

• https://github.com/btrab1/EmissiveMod
• https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/entity-texture-features-fabric
• https://modrinth.com/mod/entitytexturefeatures

Invalid SSL certificate ?
The link isn't working

It seems that there is an issue with thr web page at the moment. You can read the list here as well: https://github.com/LambdAurora/optifine_alternatives.

Wanted to give you a heads-up that (according to CloudFlare) your SSL certificate expired and needs to be renewed, but looks like others already pointed it out.

I am aware of the issue, for some unknown reason GitHub is failing to renew the certificate, seems like my attempts at mitigating yesterday did not work.

Update: had to unpublish entirely my website from GitHub and redeploy everything for it to finally issue valid SSL certificates, it should be good now.

You're doing god's work mate