A list of performance-enhancing mods for 1.16.x forge/fabric versions.
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Mods marked as "Dangerous" might be unstable, and cause some unexpected behaviour.
| Name | Known Incompatibilities | Description | Author | Performance Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phosphor | Starlight | Phosphor is a Minecraft mod which works to optimize one of game's most inefficient areas, the lighting engine | CaffeineMC | Both |
| Starlight | Phosphor | Fabric mod for completely rewriting the vanilla light engine. | Spottedleaf (PaperMC) | Both |
| LazyDFU | Mods that remove the DFU | LazyDFU is an optimization mod that makes the initialization of DataFixerUpper "lazy" | astei | Both |
| Smooth Boot | Unknown | Optimize Minecraft loading performance to be smoother on low end systems and scale better on high end systems | UltimateBoomer | Both |
| DashLoader (Dangerous) | Hydrogen, Enhanced Block Entities | This mod launches minecraft faster by caching all of the content on first launch and then loading that cache on the next one | alphaqu | Client |
| FerriteCore | Unknown | This mod reduces the memory usage of Minecraft in a few different ways | malte0811 | Both |
| VanillaFix | Unknown | Bug fixes and optimizations for Minecraft | BoogieMonster1O1 (Dimensional Development) | Both |
| Sodium | Mods that utilize of the FRAPI⁴ | Sodium is a free and open-source rendering engine replacement for the Minecraft client that greatly improves frame rates, reduces micro-stutter, and fixes graphical issues in Minecraft | CaffeineMC | Client |
| Canvas | Sodium | Advanced Rendering Engine for Fabric | grondag | Client |
| Hydrogen | DashLoader | Reduces the memory usage of the game in more modded scenarios | CaffeineMC | Client |
| EntityCulling | None | EntityCulling using async path-tracing to skip rendering Tiles/Entities that are not visible | tr9zw | Client |
| Entity Distance | Unknown | Allows the user to adjust the (client) distance at which different entities render | capnkork | Client |
| Cull Leaves | Unknown | Adds culling to leaf blocks, providing a huge performance boost over vanilla. | Motschen | Client |
| Enhanced Block Entities | Sodium⁴, DashLoader | EBE is a mod which aims to increase the performance of block entity rendering, as well as offer customizability via resource packs. | FoundationGames | Client |
| Better Beds | Unknown | Removes the Block Entity Renderer from the bed and replaces it with the default minecraft model renderer. | Motschen | Client |
| FastChest | Unknown | This mod helps by removing dynamic models from chests and making them render as static chunk geometry. | fake_domi | Client |
| Better Biome Blend | Sodium | Better Biome Blend is a mod which accelerates the biome color blending algorithm. | FionaTheMortal | Client |
| Resolution Control | Unknown | ResolutionControl+ allows you to change Minecraft's render resolution separately from the HUD elements. | Ultimate Boomer | Client |
| Smoke Suppresion | Unknown | This is to prevent client-side lag and general annoyance when using large numbers of campfires in farms. | supersaiyansubtlety | Client |
| Angerable Patch | Unknown | Fixes MC-192362 / MC-189565, which causes drastically large log file sizes and lag | Client | Draylar |
| Lithium | None | Lithium is a general-purpose optimization mod for Minecraft which works to improve a number of systems without changing any behavior | CaffeineMC | Server |
| Hopper Optimizations | Unknown | A mod that optimizes hoppers and their interactions with entities and inventories | 2No2Name | Server |
| Krypton | Unknown | Krypton is a Minecraft mod designed for the Fabric mod loader that implements a suite of optimizations focused on the Minecraft networking stack | astei | Server |
| Overworld Two | Unknown | Optimization mod that generates overworld and nether terrain much faster than vanilla minecraft at the cost of breaking parity. | gegy1000, SuperCoder79 | Server |
| Tic-Tacs (Dangerous) | C2ME | Tic-TACS is an experimental reimplementation of Minecraft's chunk loading engine | gegy | Server |
| C2ME (DANGEROUS) | Tic-Tacs, + | A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft. | YatopiaMC | Server |
| MCMT-Fabric (DANGEROUS) | Carpet, Dimensional Threading | This is a mod, that attempts to multithread minecraft's tick execution. | himekifee | Server |
| Dimensional Threading (Dangerous) | Unknown | Minecraft mod which optimizes the processing of multiple Dimensions, by assigning them independent threads | WearBlackAllDay | Server |
| Fat Experience Orbs | Unknown | This mod makes it so that nearby experience orbs merge together | NinjaPhenix | Server |
| FastBench | None | This is a mod aimed at improving performance of all crafting-related functions. | tfarecnim | Server |
| FastFurnace | None | Similar to FastWorkbench, it caches the last recipe used, and checks this recipe first before re-scanning the entire registry | tfarecnim | Server |
| Recipe Cache | FastFurnace, FastBench (?) | Caches recipe lookup for crafting and furnaces to lessen server lag caused by crafting stacks of items and large amounts of furnaces ticking | biom4st3r1 | Server |
| Name | Known Incompatibilities | Description | Author | Performance Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FerriteCore | Unknown | This mod reduces the memory usage of Minecraft in a few different ways | malte0811 | Both |
| Starlight | Create | Mod for completely rewriting the vanilla light engine. | Spottedleaf (PaperMC) | Both |
| DataFixerSlayer (Dangerous³) | Any other mod that also removes DFU | DataFixerSlayer prevents the DataFixerUpper (DFU) system from loading | Vazkii | Both |
| LazyDFU | Mods that remove the DFU | LazyDFU is an optimization mod that makes the initialization of DataFixerUpper "lazy" | Corgi_Taco | Both |
| Smooth Boot | Unknown | Optimize Minecraft loading performance to be smoother on low end systems and scale better on high end systems | UltimateBoomer | Both |
| Clumps | APTweaks, MCMT | Clumps groups XP orbs together into a single entity to reduce lag when there are many in a small area | jaredlll08 | Both |
| None | This mod increases fps by not rendering particles that the player can't see | tfarecnim | Client | |
| Better Fps - Render Distance | Unknown | Better FPS Render Distance is a mod which adds a few performance improvements to increase fps. | someaddon | Client |
| Out of Sight | Unknown | Out of Sight simply stops modded tile entities from rendering if they are further than 24 blocks away | Corosus | Client |
| EntityCulling | None | EntityCulling using async path-tracing to skip rendering Tiles/Entities that are not visible | tr9zw | Client |
| Entity Culling | None | Entity Culling is a small client-side performance core mod which improves the rendering of entities and tile entities. | meldexun | Client |
| Better Biome Blend | None | Better Biome Blend is a mod which accelerates the biome color blending algorithm. | FionaTheMortal | Client |
| Spawner Bug Fix | Unknown | This addresses a bug which causes lag in mods that create custom spawners. | Lupicus | Client |
| DrawerFPS | Unknown | Simple, efficient mod which lets you configure at which range Storage Drawers do render items to improve fps. | someaddon | Client |
| Overworld Two | Unknown | Optimization mod that generates overworld and nether terrain much faster than vanilla minecraft at the cost of breaking parity. | Corgi_Taco, gegy1000, SuperCoder79 | Server |
| C2ME (DANGEROUS) | Unknown | A Forge mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft. | YatopiaMC | Server |
| APTweaks | Dynamic View (View Distance Feature), Clumps | Adaptive Performance Tweaks is a Minecraft Forge Mod which automatically adjust specific settings on the server and client side to allow a balanced TPS/FPS. | Kaworru | Server |
| Dynamic View | APTweaks | This is a small/light serverside utility mod to help balancing lag (TPS) and chunk view/load distance. | someaddon | Server |
| Performant (Dangerous) | Phosphophyllite, Resourceful Bees, + | Lightweight mod project which hugely improves performance and blocklag. | someaddon | Server |
| MCMT (DANGEROUS) | Immersive Portals, Performant, Clumps, +++ | This is a mod, that attempts to multithread minecraft's tick execution. | jediminer543 | Server |
| AI Improvements⁵ | None | Simplified AI modification mod focused on performance and low-level modifications to AIs in the game | QueenOfMissiles | Server |
| Get It Together, Drops! | Unknown | This mod adds two configuration options to control how dropped items combine on the ground. This can significantly improve performance in areas with lots of dropped items | bl4ckscor3 | Server |
| FastWorkbench minus Replacement | None | This is a mod aimed at improving performance of all crafting-related functions. | tfarecnim | Server |
| FastFurnace minus Replacement | None | Similar to FastWorkbench, it caches the last recipe used, and checks this recipe first before re-scanning the entire registry. | tfarecnim | Server |
| FastSuite | Unknown | FastSuite is a mod about improving recipe performance, it improves upon all mods that use the JSON recipe system, rather than just a specific subset of recipes | Shadows_of_Fire | Server |
| Krypton Reforged | Unknown | Krypton Reforged is a Forge port of Krypton a Minecraft mod designed for the Fabric mod loader that implements a suite of optimizations focused on the Minecraft networking stack | TeamDeusVult | Server |
| Halogen⁶ | Performant, Immersive Portals | A Forge port of Sodium | spoorn | Client |
| RoadRunner | Performant | RoadRunner is an unofficial fork of the popular performance-enhancing Fabric mod Lithium by jellysquid3 for the Forge mod loader. | MaxNeedsSnacks | Server |
| Magnesium, Sulfuric, Hydrogen Reforged | Unknown | Unofficial ports to forge of Sodium and Phosphor respectively. | someoneelsewastaken |