Iris
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs (by IrisShaders)
sodium-fabric
A Fabric mod designed to improve frame rates and reduce micro-stutter (by jellysquid3)
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| Iris | sodium-fabric | |
|---|---|---|
| 134 | 138 | |
| 3,096 | 4,465 | |
| 3.6% | 1.6% | |
| 8.6 | 9.4 | |
| 3 days ago | 11 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Iris
Posts with mentions or reviews of Iris.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.
- Iris 1.6.12 for Minecraft 1.20.3
- Iris 1.6.10 for Minecraft 1.20.2 Released
- Iris 1.6.9 for Minecraft 1.20.1 is Out
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Mod List
Iris Shaders + Sodium - Link - Indium - Link - (Indium is needed for many other Sodium based FPS increasing mods) - Increases performance and shaders performance
- 1.20.1 shaders glitch. on feather with iris. how do i fix. if i use night vision its fine but it looks worse bc shadows become less defined happens with all shaders but is okay without.
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[Java] How so I get shaders working
You can install iris from here: https://irisshaders.dev/download and they have a complete installation guide here: https://github.com/IrisShaders/Iris/blob/37f491553cea26241a8561da90917c740d7a573c/docs/guide.md
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Minecraft Java Edition 1.20 - the Trails & Tales Update Has Been Released!
Downloading the latest version off of the official Iris website or GitHub should be safe: https://github.com/IrisShaders/Iris/releases
- Iris 1.6.4 for Minecraft 1.20 Released and Adds Feature to Change Color Space
sodium-fabric
Posts with mentions or reviews of sodium-fabric.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
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Sodium causing crashes
[22:52:47] [Render thread/WARN]: If the game crashes immediately after this point, please make a bug report: https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric/issues
- Sodium 0.5.0
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The Crashes of Grian
I googled "fabric crashes with falling block" and found this GitHub Issue in the Sodium Repo. Solution: install Indium, because continuity relies on it to bridge over to sodium.
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Sand?
It`s Indium. https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric/issues/1324
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1.20 optifine
GitHub link
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Torch flames appearing through walls whenever I pick up an item
if https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric/issues/1006 is what you are talking about, it is an upstream issue for any forge port of the sodium mod
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Does anyone know why my Minecraft looks really jagged? It looks like the anti-aliasing/anisotropic filtering is really off or something.
Wow, a reasonable criticism! According to this issue, transparency sorting hasn’t been implemented, and so the behavior is inconsistent. Surprised to see a pull request linked that had fixed it, but was never merged and is now incompatible. Definitely affects users who have farms and stained glass builds though!
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Optifine making chunks/the entire world invisible?
The problem with the multithreaded version of Optifine is that OpenGL doesn't officially support multithreading (at least not with older versions of OpenGL; Sodium (for modern versions) uses a "multidraw" function to get up to 10x the FPS but also uses OpenGL 4+, and even then it has issues on many drivers. Note that using such modern features would require a "core profile", precluding the use of all legacy fixed-function methods so the entire renderer would have to be rewritten).
- [java] Visual glitch when placing blocks above y 61 or breaking
- Is this ice glitch a Sodium thing? Any ideas on a fix?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Iris and sodium-fabric you can also consider the following projects:
Starlight - Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors
optifine
LambDynamicLights - A dynamic lights mod for Minecraft with Fabric.
lithium-fabric - A Fabric mod designed to improve the general performance of Minecraft without breaking things
sodium-fabric - A fork of Sodium adding Iris compatibility. EXPERIMENTAL AND UNSTABLE, DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THERE ARE RENDERING ISSUES, BUGS, AND CRASHES.
Indium - A JavaScript development environment for Emacs
hydrogen-fabric - Things of which are too dangerous to put in Lithium.
sodium-extra-fabric - Features that shouldn't be in Sodium.
FarPlaneTwo - Level-of-Detail renderer in Minecraft. Allows for render distances of millions of blocks. (Cubic Chunks-compatible) (WIP)
Indium - Sodium addon providing support for the Fabric Rendering API, based on Indigo