minecraft-performance-mods.md

Individual Performance

Baselines

Vanilla

• Base values for comparison
• All tests done on 1.16.5

Fabric

• Adds some performance but mostly also a baseline

Forge

• Another baseline measurement. Might add a bit of performance as well

Paper

• Not tested at the time due to it being only server-side.
• Not compatible with mods

Rendering

Sodium

• Indium
• Sodium Extras

Chlorine

• Forge port of Sodium

Optifine

• Aptly dubbed "Optitrashfiremodfine", "Optif***" and other such names
• Isn't compatible with practically anything
• Adds shaders and some other cool features
• [TODO: add LambdAroura's alternative list]

General Performance

Performant

• Forge mod
• Mostly server-side, so not really needed on clients for smp play

Lithium

• General performance improvement, also mostly server-side

Lighting Engine

Phosphor

• Mostly dead
• Good on 1.12
• Fabric/Forge, improves lighting engine

Starlight

• BETA
• Fabric mod drastically improving lighting engine

Best Combinations