A list of performance-enhancing mods for 1.17.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starlight | Unknown | 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 |
| FerriteCore | Unknown | This mod reduces the memory usage of Minecraft in a few different ways | malte0811 | Both |
| Clumps | Unknown | Clumps groups XP orbs together into a single entity to reduce lag when there are many in a small area. | jaredlll08 | 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 |
| DashLoader (Dangerous) | 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 |
| lazy-language-loader | Unknown | lazy-language-loader improves loading times when changing your language by only reloading the language instead of all the game resources! | chachylmao | Client |
| Canvas | Sodium | Advanced Rendering Engine for Fabric | grondag | Client |
| Hydrogen | Unknown | 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 |
| 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 |
| Entity Distance | Unknown | Allows the user to adjust the (client) distance at which different entities render | capnkork | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| C2ME (DANGEROUS) | Tic-Tacs, + | A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft. | YatopiaMC | Server |
| Dimensional Threading (Dangerous) | Unknown | Minecraft mod which optimizes the processing of multiple Dimensions, by assigning them independent threads | WearBlackAllDay | Server |
| Alternate Current (Dangerous) | Unknown | Alternate Current is an efficient and non-locational redstone dust implementation | Space Walker | 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 |
| ServerCore (Dangerous) | Unknown | A fabric mod that aims to optimize & add multiplayer features to the minecraft server. | Wesley1808 | Server |
| Very Many Players (Dangerous) | Unknown | Very Many Players, or VMP for short, is a Fabric mod designed to improve general server performance at high playercount without sacrificing vanilla functionality or behavior. | ishland | 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 |
| Clumps | Unknown | Clumps groups XP orbs together into a single entity to reduce lag when there are many in a small area. | jaredlll08 | Both |
| EntityCulling | None | EntityCulling using async path-tracing to skip rendering Tiles/Entities that are not visible | tr9zw | Client |
| Better Fps - Render Distance | Unknown | Better FPS Render Distance is a mod which adds a few performance improvements to increase fps. | someaddon | Client |
| Better Biome Blend | Probably any Sodium port | Better Biome Blend is a mod which accelerates the biome color blending algorithm. | FionaTheMortal | Client |
| 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 |
| Dynamic View | APTweaks | This is a small/light serverside utility mod to help balancing lag (TPS) and chunk view/load distance. | someaddon | Server |
| AI Improvements⁵ | None | Simplified AI modification mod focused on performance and low-level modifications to AIs in the game | QueenOfMissiles | Server |
The FastChest link still directs to Surge