

I use OptiFine for the other aesthetic changes.Ī few aesthetic mods work with Sodium & Iris right out of the box, like Fabric Capes and LambDynamicLights. This means there are some shaders that might not work fully. The thing to note here is that Iris is still in development. Metrics that I've seen on Iris's Discord show quadrupling of frames going from OptiFine to Iris+Sodium. Iris has great support, and depends upon Sodium for optimal performance. If you use OptiFine for the shaders, you should use Iris. You might also want to follow my guide to maximizing performance on Quilt, which can be found here. These mods give more FPS than OptiFine in almost every use case (and even just Sodium alone does absolute wonders). If you use OptiFine for the performance benefits, you should use Sodium, Lithium, Starlight, FerriteCore, Entit圜ulling, and LazyDFU.

I use OptiFine for the performance benefits.

That's what this serves as: a migration guide from OptiFine to alternative free & open source mods.įirst, let's go over some of the main use cases of OptiFine, and their replacements. However, by far the most striking thing about OptiFine is the fact that better alternatives exist. Thus, free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To quote the Free Software Foundation:įree Software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software. If someone wants a feature or bug fix, with Free software, they can just fix it in the code themselves, if they so desired. Closed source applications have far less opportunity for growth and collaboration than Free & open source projects do.

OptiFine was one of the best mods, if not the best mod, in Minecraft versions 1.6 through 1.15. This exact same guide is also available on the QuiltMC forums: Why you shouldn't use OptiFine - Off-Topic / Minecraft
