Map of Sodium and Lithium forks

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This document is about the Minecraft mods Sodium and Lithium, and their forks. These are mods to help performance.

The Sodium stuff

What is it

Sodium optimizes the client rendering pipeline. It does nothing for the server.

Table

Note: I consider that Forge = Neoforge here

Name	Open source	Platform	Description
Sodium	No (source open) (Please respect devs, folks)	Fabric	mod to change the rendering engine
Iris	Yes	Fabric	Addon for Sodium, adds shaders
Indium	Yes	Fabric	Addon for Sodium, for the "Fabric Rendering API". Some mods use it
Sodium Extra	Yes	Fabric	Extra features for Sodium
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Rubidium	Yes	Forge	fork of Sodium for Forge
Oculus	Yes	Forge	Addon for Rubidium, adds shaders. Fork of Iris
Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra	Yes	Forge	Extra features for Rubidium, fork of Sodium Extra. Also works with Embeddium
Embeddium/Rubidium Extras	?	Forge	Also called "Magnesium Extras". Adds features ?
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Embeddium	Yes	Forge+Fabric	fork of Rubidium, adds "transparent face sorting + better mod compatibility apparently"
Embeddium++ (also called Embeddium++Additions)	?	Forge	Fork/Rewrite of Embeddium/Rubidium Extras
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Magnesium (Formerly called Sodium Reforged)	Yes	Forge	Seems to be discontinued. Note that "Magnesium extras" (see above) is NOT discontinued.

Relations

A -> B means "A has been forked into B"

flowchart TD

subgraph sodium[Sodium stuff]
Sodium
SodiumExtra[Sodium Extra]
Iris
Indium
end

subgraph rubidium[Rubidium stuff]
Rubidium
RubidiumExtra["Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra"]
Oculus
end

subgraph embeddium[Embeddium stuff]
Embeddium
MagnesiumExtras
EmbediumPlus[Embeddium++]
end

Sodium --> Rubidium --> Embeddium
SodiumExtra --> RubidiumExtra
MagnesiumExtras --> EmbediumPlus
Iris --> Oculus

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Notes

Porting Indium to Forge makes no sense
Everyone seems to hate Optifine because closed source/breaks mods

The Lithium stuff

What is it

A mod mainly made to optimize the server in various ways and gain TPS. It also has some effects on the client apparently

Table

Name	Open source	Platform	Description
Lithium	Yes	Fabric	Optimize the server in various ways
Radium	Yes	Forge	Port of Lithium for Forge
Canary	Yes	Forge	Another port of Lithium for Forge ? Seems better than Radium
Radium Reforged	Yes	Forge	Yet another port of Lithium for Forge. Seems better than Canary according to its desc

Relations

flowchart TD
Lithium --> Radium
Lithium --> RadiumReforged
Lithium --> Canary

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