Xenon Mod is a fork of Embeddium (Forge port of the Sodium performance mod) with improvements, extra options, and new maintainers. This mod is intended to be a replacement that is not hostile to upstream Sodium and contains extra features for modpack developers. Currently, it includes all the extra improvements from Embeddium Extras mod, as well as Reese’s vertical video settings (which is required for the extra options). Xenon will work with everything Embeddium does, as it is a fork.
Features:
Mods that are incompatible with Xenon:
- OptiFine is not supported. This mod replaces OptiFine.
- Embeddium (this is a fork of Embeddium and does the same thing).
- Embeddium/Rubidium Extras (included in the mod).
- TexTrue’s Embeddium Options (included in the mod).
- Anything else that breaks with Embeddium / other Forge Sodium ports.
Mods that should be compatible:
- All other Embeddium addons.
- Oculus Shaders.
Xenon Mod Download Links
For Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.20
Forge/NeoForge version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as 178889.mcaddon
- Download size: 2.0 MB
- Download link checked 17 Jul 2026 — working
- Mirrored on our own servers — the download does not depend on the original host
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.