Minecraft's Caves & Cliffs update (1.18) made the game prettier but impacted Java edition's performance. Many players use Optifine or Sodium to play; should optimization be in the base game? US ...

Sodium is a must-have optimization mod for Minecraft 26.3. It has over 226,000,000 downloads from Modrinth alone. It helps increase FPS, reduce micro-stutters, and fix several graphical ...

One area that Minecraft has always been poor at is load times. Because of the game's slightly more inefficient Java codebase, along with less than optimally written updates, the game can struggle to ...