Choosing Optional Mods
This guide shows you the considerations that should be made when choosing any of our provided optional mods.
Note that the optional mods have not been as thoroughly tested as our default mods, or might have some issues.
Sodium
Section titled “Sodium”Sodium is a mod that improves the performance of Minecraft. It should be installed along with Indium, to provide proper rendering support for 3d prints.
Iris Shaders
Section titled “Iris Shaders”Iris Shaders is a mod that adds shader support to our pack. It requires Sodium (and thus Indium) to be installed. It is not supported by Nvidium and some shader packs might not work with Distant Horizons.
Distant Horizons
Section titled “Distant Horizons”Distant Horizons is a mod that improves the client side render distance by creating LODs beyond the real chunks’ render distance. It only works with shaders built with Distant Horizons support in mind.
Bobby is a mod that improves the client side render distance by caching chunks it receives from the server. It renders the chunks as real Minecraft chunks.
Nvidium
Section titled “Nvidium”Nvidium replaces the rendering backend with NVIDIA exclusive OpenGL extensions to increase fps a lot, especially with huge render distances. Sodium (and thus Indium) should be installed for this to work. Nvidium disables itself when Iris is using a shader.