Performance/FPS Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 20,263 free Performance/FPS mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Starlight (Forge), LambDynamicLights, Indium.
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Starlight (Forge)
Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.

Indium
Sodium addon providing support for the Fabric Rendering API, based on Indigo
Krypton Reforged
Unofficial Forge Port of the server networking performance mod "Krypton"
Boat Break Fix [Neo/Forge/Fabric/Quilt]
Fixes a breaking bug with boats and increases performance.
Iris & Oculus Flywheel Compat
Enable Flywheel's optimizations when use shaders.
CullLessLeaves Reforged (Unofficial)
Gives you a 9% fps improvement for leaves rendering

Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Krypton
A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack
Canary
A performance mod designed to optimize Minecraft's general performance and unofficial fork of Lithium mod for Minecraft Forge.
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra
Port of Sodium Extra to work with Embeddium/Rubidium on (Neo)Forge
Chloride (Previously Embeddium++/Sodium++)
Gives Embeddium/Sodium additional Performance and Quality features for a tasteful experience

Language Reload
Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages

Memory Leak Fix
A mod that fixes random memory leaks for both the client and server
Redirector [Modern]
Redirect Enum#values() allocation in codes and improve game performance.
Entity Collision FPS Fix
Client Side mod that optimizes entity's on the render thread. Fixes https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-228976

Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.

Oculus
Unofficial Fork of "Iris", made to work with FML

Debugify
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
Surge
An open source performance enhancement mod.
CIT Resewn
Re-implements MCPatcher's CIT (custom item textures from optifine resource packs)

Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge

Distant Horizons
See farther without turning your game into a slide show

Model Gap Fix
Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models
Redirected
Memory optimization mod that prevents duplication of Enum values
TexTrue's Embeddium Options
Unofficial port of Reese's Sodium Options to work with Embeddium on MinecraftForge/NeoForge.

BSL Shaders
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod
Massively increase render distance without harming performance.

Packet Fixer
A simple mod to fix various problems with packets, nbt and timeouts.
Lightspeed - Launch optimizations
Reduces your waiting time by loading modpacks significantly faster (currently 48% - 71%)

Cubes Without Borders
Allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.

Enhanced Block Entities
Reduce block entity FPS lag with almost no compromises, and improve their visuals

Photon Shaders
A gameplay-focused shader pack with a semi-realistic style

Remove Reloading Screen
Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!