Sodium in All the Mods 11

Sodium is a rendering engine replacement for Minecraft. It greatly improves frame rates and reduces micro-stutter, and it fixes many graphical issues in the base game. It is a client optimization mod, so it works on how the game draws things and not on what is in the world.^[1]

It also aims for wide compatibility with the rest of the modding ecosystem, and it does this without changing how the game looks. You keep the authentic block game feel, just with a smoother game.^[1]

The pack ships Sodium 0.9.1+mc26.1.2, using the NeoForge build of the mod.^[2]

Settings and tuning

You can check that Sodium is working by opening the Video Settings screen in Minecraft, which shows Sodium's own settings interface. You probably don't need to change anything there. By default Sodium enables every optimization your system supports, so only touch the performance and advanced video settings if you run into problems.^[1]

Hardware requirements

Official support covers desktop graphics cards with up-to-date drivers that support OpenGL 4.5 or newer. Examples of cards that meet this:^[1]

• Intel HD Graphics 500 Series (Skylake) or newer^[1]
• NVIDIA GeForce 400 Series (Fermi) or newer^[1]
• AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series (GCN 1) or newer^[1]

Nearly all desktop cards that already run Minecraft (which requires OpenGL 3.3) should also work with Sodium, but the team does not support older cards and they may stop working in future versions.^[1]

Same as in the FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 guide

Sodium is a bit different from the other mods in this guide. It adds no machines, items or crafting steps. It is a rendering engine replacement for Minecraft that improves your frame rate and reduces micro-stutter. So there is nothing to craft and no quest to finish here. Your first steps are about making sure it is working for you.^[1]

Step by step

1. Open the Video Settings screen in Minecraft. If Sodium is running, you will see its new user interface for changing settings there.^[1]
2. Leave the settings alone to begin with. By default, Sodium enables every optimization your system supports, which gives you the best experience it can.^[1]
3. Only change the performance and advanced video settings if you run into problems.^[1]

Check your hardware

Sodium officially supports desktop graphics cards with up-to-date drivers that support OpenGL 4.5 or newer. Most cards released in the past 12 years qualify. The mod's page gives these examples: Intel HD Graphics 500 Series (Skylake) or newer, NVIDIA GeForce 400 Series (Fermi) or newer, and AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series (GCN 1) or newer.^[1]

Older cards that already run Minecraft (which needs OpenGL 3.3) should also work with Sodium. The team says it cannot ensure compatibility or give support for them, and they may stop working with future versions.^[1]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Sodium doesn't have machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation. It's a rendering engine replacement for the Minecraft client. It's there to raise your frame rate and cut micro-stutter, and it also fixes many graphical issues in the base game.^[1]

What Sodium actually changes

By design, Sodium only optimizes Minecraft's rendering code. Other parts of the game, like world logic, aren't touched by this mod. Its developers point to their separate mods for that, such as Lithium.^[1]

It's built to stay compatible with the wider modding ecosystem without changing how the game looks, so you keep the normal block game feel.^[1]

Settings and defaults

By default, Sodium enables all optimizations your system supports, so you usually don't need to configure anything. The project page suggests changing performance-related or advanced video settings only if you run into problems.^[1]

To check that it's working, open the Video Settings screen in Minecraft. With Sodium installed, it shows Sodium's own redesigned interface for changing settings.^[1]

Hardware requirements

Sodium's official support covers desktop graphics cards with up-to-date drivers that support OpenGL 4.5 or newer. Nearly all desktop cards that already run Minecraft (which needs OpenGL 3.3) should also work, but the team doesn't guarantee support for older cards and they may stop working in future versions.^[1]

Unverified The project page's news item describes Sodium 0.9.x for a newer Minecraft version, including early Vulkan support. Which Sodium build this pack uses, and whether Vulkan applies here, can't be confirmed from the available sources.

All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta ships Sodium 0.9.1 for Minecraft 26.1.2, using the NeoForge jar. It was first included in All the Mods 11 0.0.9 or earlier. I don't have pack changelog notes for this mod, so everything below comes from Sodium's own changelogs.^[2]

Sodium 0.9.1 (the version in this pack)

This is the big one. It adds asynchronous occlusion culling, which generally improves performance and avoids frame rate drops when you move the camera, especially at high render distances. The changelog says more work is planned on task scheduling and responsiveness.^[3]

• Implementation of asynchronous graph culling and frame-independent task scheduling. Further improvements to the task scheduling system are only planned, not part of this release.^[3]
• Several crash fixes, including "getResources is null", "sorter is null" and an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException caused by unsafe concurrency in async culling.^[3]
• Colour fixes for water, block tinting, fluid colour overrides and falling blocks.^[3]
• Fixed lighting on non-terrain blocks, and better mod compatibility by using occlusion culling from the camera render state.^[3]
• Clearer presentation and wording for some video options.^[3]
• The command line is now restored after NeoForge early window init.^[3]

Sodium 0.8.12

This release added an optional FPS percentile display. The median (p50) shows your typical frame rate, while the 98th and 99.5th percentiles show slow and very slow frames. That is more useful than the average, which a few slow frames can drag down.^[4]

• A new option to sort entity quads by their closest point, which fixes some wrongly sorted translucent entities. It is disabled by default because it costs performance.^[4]
• Lighting fixes: flat fluid lighting that was too dark, incorrect AO and skylight around light sources, and fullbright blocks now emit only block light.^[4]
• Lower memory use on the direct sorting fallback path, plus fixes for retaining large allocations.^[4]
• A fix for wrong rendering at render distances above 32.^[4]

Sodium 0.8.11

• Options UI improvements, including Alt shortcuts, ESC discard behaviour, and a reset button with hold-shift to reset.^[5]
• The filtering mode is now configurable, and the default changed to nearest.^[5]
• Fixes for animated sprite mipping and a rare translucency sorting crash with some resource packs.^[5]

Sodium 0.8.10

This version added support for Minecraft 26.1.2 and NeoForge 26.1.2.29. It also fixed water with zero-alpha colour being invisible on NeoForge after the port to 26.1.^[6]