Performance Mods

performancemods.md

I do not maintain this list anymore:

Go to https://github.com/NordicGamerFE/usefulmods an updated version

Performance Mods

A list of performance-enhancing mods for most major-played versions.

Any suggestion/complaint?
~ Ping alkya#1273 in Modded Minecraft or use the gist comments.

Mods marked as "Dangerous" might be unstable, and cause some unexpected behaviour.

Forge 1.7.10

Name	Known Incompatibilities	Description	Author	Performance Improvement
BetterFPS	None	BetterFps is a Minecraft mod that add a few performance improvements, trying to be compatible with other mods.	Guichaguri	Both
FastCraft	Forge Essentials	FastCraft is a sophisticated mod which improves the client and server performance significantly without any game play changes.	sfPlayer1	Both
FoamFix	None	FoamFix is a mod designed to optimize post-1.7.10 modded Minecraft using simple, targeted optimizations.	asiekierka	Both
CoFHTweaks	Unknown	Configuration options	skyboy026 (TeamCoFH)	Both
Squidless	Unknown	Prevents squids spawning in regions where they would instantly despawn	hilburn	Server

Forge 1.8.9

Name	Known Incompatibilities	Description	Author	Performance Improvement
FoamFix	None	FoamFix is a mod designed to optimize post-1.7.10 modded Minecraft using simple, targeted optimizations.	asiekierka	Both
BetterFPS	None	BetterFps is a Minecraft mod that add a few performance improvements, trying to be compatible with other mods.	Guichaguri	Both
Patcher	None	Patcher is a 1.8.9 Forge mod created to improve your all-around Minecraft experience, bringing tons of Quality of Life additions, performance improvements, and tons of Vanilla bug fixes.	Sk1er	Client

Forge 1.12.2

Name	Known Incompatibilities	Description	Author	Performance Improvement
FoamFix	None	FoamFix is a mod designed to optimize post-1.7.10 modded Minecraft using simple, targeted optimizations	asiekierka	Both
VanillaFix	Mods using outdated mixin versions¹	VanillaFix is a mod that improves performance and fixes bugs and annoyances in vanilla Minecraft	Runemoro (Dimensional Development)	Both
Phosphor	Mods using outdated mixin versions¹	Phosphor is a Minecraft mod which works to optimize one of game's most inefficient areas, the lighting engine	jellysquid_	Both
BetterFPS	None	BetterFps is a Minecraft mod that add a few performance improvements, trying to be compatible with other mods.	Guichaguri	Both
Surge	Mods using outdated mixin versions¹	Surge is an open source mod which aims to improve the load time and performance of the game.	DarkhaxDev	Both
Clumps	None	Clumps groups XP orbs together into a single entity to reduce lag when there are many in a small area	jaredlll08	Both
Particle Culling	None	This mod is a client-side performance enhancing mod, which stops particles that are outside the player's view from rendering	bl4ckscor3	Client
Entity Culling	Pixelmon, Sync	Entity Culling is a small client-side performance core mod which improves the rendering of entities and tile entities.	meldexun	Client
TexFix	FoamFix-Anarchy, MCPatcher	TexFix optimizes the loading of textures of other mods	Speiger	Client
Better Biome Blend	None	Better Biome Blend is a mod which accelerates the biome color blending algorithm.	FionaTheMortal	Client
FastFurnace	None	Similar to FastWorkbench, it caches the last recipe used, and checks this recipe first before re-scanning the entire registry.	Shadows_of_Fire	Server (Must be installed in client aswell)
FastWorkbench	None	This is a mod aimed at improving performance of all crafting-related functions.	Shadows_of_Fire	Server (Must be installed in client aswell)
AI Improvements	None	Simplified AI modification mod focused on performance and low-level modifications to AIs in the game	QueenOfMissiles	Server
Get It Together, Drops!	None	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
Born In a Barn	Unknown	Fixes a Minecraft bug where Village doors keep chunks loaded.	Speiger	Server
Stackie	Unknown	This mod increases stack sizes of experience and items	Lunatrius	Server
PortalSuperCache (Dangerous)	Unknown	When using this mod, your game will search portal blocks at a high speed on teleport.	LucunJi	Server
Tiquality	Unknown	Limiting a player's tick time in the world to evenly distribute time.	Terminator_NL	Server
Multithreaded Noise	Unknown	This mod makes overworld terrain generate faster by replacing the three 3D noise generators in the overworld with multithreaded versions.	bloodnbonesgaming	Server (Must be installed in client aswell)
Performant (Dangerous)	Unknown	Lightweight mod project which hugely improves performance and blocklag.	someaddon	Server

Forge 1.15.x

Name	Known Incompatibilities	Description	Author	Performance Improvement
Phosphor	None	Phosphor is a Minecraft mod which works to optimize one of game's most inefficient areas, the lighting engine	jellysquid_	Both
Clumps	None	Clumps groups XP orbs together into a single entity to reduce lag when there are many in a small area	jaredlll08	Both
Cull Particles	None	This mod increases fps by not rendering particles that the player can't see	tfarecnim	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
FastFurnace	None	Similar to FastWorkbench, it caches the last recipe used, and checks this recipe first before re-scanning the entire registry.	Shadows_of_Fire	Server
FastWorkbench	None	This is a mod aimed at improving performance of all crafting-related functions.	Shadows_of_Fire	Server
Lithium	None	Lithium is a general-purpose optimization mod for Minecraft which works to improve a number of systems without changing any behavior	jellysquid_	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!	None	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
Performant	Unknown	Lightweight mod project which hugely improves performance and blocklag.	someaddon	Server

Forge 1.16+

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
⠀⠀Cull Particles⠀⠀²	None	This mod increases fps by not rendering particles that the player can't see	tfarecnim	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
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
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	----

Fabric 1.16+

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

Forge 1.17.X

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
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

Fabric 1.17.X

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
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

 

Chunk Pregeneration

Name	Versions	ModLoader	Description	Author
Chunk Pregenerator	1.4.7, 1.7.X, 1.8.9, 1.10.X, 1.11.X, 1.11.2, 1.12.X, 1.14.4, 1.15.2, 1.16.X	Forge	Chunk Pregenerator is a tool that allows you to generate your World more efficiently.	Speiger
Fabric Chunk Pregenerator	1.14.X, 1.15.X, 1.16.X, 1.17.X	Fabric	Mod that allows you to pregenerate chunks for your server or for singleplayer while running fabric	SuperCoder79
Chunky	Forge: 1.16.X, 1.17.X; Fabric: 1.16.X, 1.17.X; Sponge: Sponge 8+; Spigot: 1.13.X, 1.14.X, 1.15.X, 1.16.X, 1.17.X	Forge, Fabric, Sponge, Bukkit/Spigot	Pre-generates chunks, quickly and efficiently	pop4959

 

¹ Should work if Mixin-0-7-0-8-Compatibility is applied.

² Cull Particles isn't needed anymore in newer Forge versions, it was implemented in forge.

³ Do not blame me if you didn't read this notice, if you try to load a older world in a newer instance of the game, and you have one of these mods installed, bad things will happen, uninstall the mod first.

⁴ Some of the mods that have Sodium as an incompatibility, might work if you use Indium

⁵ AI Improvements newer versions (1.14+) don't have as much impact as the older versions have, since in newer versions of Minecraft, a lot of fixes to the AI are implemented [Sources: Curseforge page FAQ, Dev]

⁶ Halogen has issues with forge's ExplosionEvent, see sodium-forge#33.

@alkyaly Just made some big changes i just wanted to ask what you think as I still want to keep it somewhat to what your goal was

Really sad to see you leave alkyaly
I was one of your first comments and I have always taken a look at this gist since then. Hope you have a great day!

Regards,
Vortqx

@alkyaly Fix it urgently! You have the wrong link in mods 1.17.x for FastChest. https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fastchest

@QueenUlyana as stated in the top of the document this gist is no longer maintained

Got a new mod for Forge and Fabric called Better Fps - Render Distance.
A mod that improves render distance by changing square radius render to 3d circular radius which can be stretched horizontally via config or video option.
Take note that the Fabric version is only available on 1.18, no backports.

This gist is no longer maintained go here for the maintained fork

thank you for this list, it helped me find many useful mods !

btw, keeping up with all these mods becomes a hassle at some point, thankfully there are some recent tools that make it much easier :

• modsettings : saves a million clicks by creating shorctuts to mod settings in options screen, instead of opening modmenu and scrolling
• mod manager : currently not fully working, it can still navigate modrinth and downloads mods, but no longer detects outdated mods to update them... might be due to modrinth changing some stuff, but it was very good when it worked
• modget : this will likely replace mod manager and is more versatile
• Puzzle : brings all optifine-altenatives mods under one GUI as well as adding some features on its own
• ThatOrThis : now this one is the motherload, with it players can create their own rules with in game GUI to toggle and load different sets of mods based on compatibility or simply mood, with just a rules text file

once again thank you for the list and i hope you having fun tayloring MC exactly how you want it x)

PS im aware of the new repo , this comment is to say thank you to alkyaly and all the people who contributed to this list :)

Forge 1.7.10
FastCraft not compatible with CoFHTweaks

@SegoItCh The first line in this gist clearly states "I do not maintain this list anymore"

gg