Krypton - A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack.

Hydrogen - Reduces the memory usage of the game in more modded scenarios.

FerriteCore - Memory usage optimizations.

Entity View Distance - This mods allows more precise manipulation of entity view distance on client and server.

May be incompatible with some of the mods in this list.

DashLoader - Attempts to improve loading times by caching the game's content.

A very good alternative to express yourself than restrictive capes. It offers a lot of skin customization options, directly encoded into the skin file uploaded to Mojang.

Ears - Faithful fancy fashion features for fuzzy folk.

The mods listed below are not part of the OptiFine alternatives directly but those are still nice to have. You can contribute to this list by opening a pull request on the data branch via GitHub.

This list now has a fancy URL: Contribute zoom) that have a way for servers to disable them will be favored.

Mods that change gameplay in a way (e.g.

“PVP” clients (Badlion / Lunar / etc.) and cheat clients are not considered mods.

They must be publicly available - if they're only available on request they are not eligible.

This list will list recommended OptiFine alternatives by me (LambdAurora), so it has some requirements for mods to be listed here:

OptiFabric: A note about the 1.16 crashes This list In the modern Minecraft era, with Fabric's community effort, modders have begun to create alternatives for most of OptiFine's features to allow players to maintain better performance, better mod compatibility, and better support. Also, worth noting that OptiFine natively doesn't support Fabric, and it's hard to maintain OptiFabric. This is due to Minecraft's codebase improving over the years and OptiFine's aggressiveness towards replacing entire swaths of code while being closed source making it very difficult to figure out why OptiFine has broken another modder's mod.

However, over the years, its benefits have dwindled and has caused many issues for modders. OptiFine was originally a great mod offering many quality of life improvements for the player in the beginning. OptiFine Alternatives OptiFine Alternatives Why?

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