Potato3D
The Future Past of Rendering is Now, and it's all in Java™!
Potato3D is an alternative implementation of Mojang's Blaze3D rendering api, that handles all the rendering on cpu / with java code (aka it's a 3d software renderer). And all of it in crisp 320x240 and playable performance*!
Fully compatible with Minecraft 26.1.x and Herdcraft 26w14a!
Some in game screenshots:
Incompatibilities:
- Sodium - Requires OpenGL, so it won't work with reimplementation
- Iris - Requires OpenGL, just like above.
- Immediately Fast - Probably requires OpenGL
- Or just anything using raw OpenGL or vanilla Blaze3D implementation.
- Anything using custom core shaders - Potato3D doesn't support any GLSL shaders, as all the rendering is handled on java side.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.2
- 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.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as potato3d-1.1.0+26.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 76 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.