
ELO - Entity LOD Optimizer
Entity LOD Optimizer optimizes Minecraft server performance by dynamically adjusting entity AI based on distance from players
⬇ Download on ModrinthELO - Entity LOD Optimizer 🚀
A smart performance booster for Minecraft servers
🔍 Overview
Entity LOD Optimizer is a server-side performance mod for Minecraft (Fabric 1.20.x) that dynamically optimizes entity AI processing based on player proximity. Perfect for crowded servers or large worlds!
✅ Reduces CPU load - entity-heavy scenarios
✅ Zero-config – works out of the box
✅ Scalable - for singleplayer and multiplayer (untested on multiplayer!)
⚡ Features
🎯 Smart AI Tiers
| Distance from Player | AI Mode | Behavior |
|---|---|---|
| < 10 blocks | Full AI | Normal Minecraft behavior |
| 10-100 blocks | Simplified AI | Reduced updates (40-tick interval) |
| > 100 blocks | Disabled AI | Frozen (no CPU usage) |
🚀 Performance Benefits
- CPU: Cuts redundant AI calculations for distant mobs
- Memory: Lightweight entity state management
- Network: Fewer unnecessary entity updates
⚠️ Important Notes
🚨 Backup your worlds!
- Automated farms >100 blocks away may break (e.g., iron farms, mob grinders).
📥 Installation
- Install Fabric Loader for 1.20.x
- Install Fabric API for 1.20.x
- Download the latest
.jarfrom Versions - Drop it into your
modsfolder
❓ Support & Contributing
- Bug Reports: Open an Issue
- Contributing: Read the Guidelines
- Like this mod? ⭐ Star it on GitHub!
- 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: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as entitylodoptimizer-1.2a-dev.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 118 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.