What is Sodium Mod?

Sodium is an open-source mod that you can download easily for free on curse forge. This mod provides a vanilla rendering engine replacement to increase your fps and reduce lag without affecting graphical issues. It’s compatible with almost all the available hardware. You can even install it on Raspberry pi!!

You must be familiar with optifine. Considering it sodium mod is the best alternative you can find if you’re having issues with optifine. Though sodium lacks many quality options in terms of fps credit goes to Sodium mod. Sodium provides almost 2 times more fps than optifine.

Please take a note that sodium is incompatible with optifine. So do not install optifine and sodium mod simultaneously. (newsroompost.com)

Some important features of sodium mod:

• Uses modern OpenGl to reduce CPU overhead while rendering the world.
• Compatible vertex data for rendered chunks allowing more video memory and bandwidth.
• Uses multithreading to update nearby blocks to reduce lag spikes which are generally caused by chunk update issues in Minecraft vanilla.
• Not visible chunk faces are culled very early in the rendering eliminating tons of geometric processing to increase performance. This option is best for you if you’re using an integrated graphic card and you struggle with performance a lot.
• Optimization while chunk loading and block rendering. Making rendering more faster than usual. Now you don’t have to worry about being crashed while flying with elytra on.
• Improved and optimized mob and entity rendering.
• Improvement in the memory management of the game. By decreasing memory consumption and useless garbage improvising in the reduction of lag spikes.
• Fixed smooth lighting without affecting a single core of your game performance.
• The same goes for fluids and special blocks of smooth lighting.
• Disabled animated textures for non rendered chunks.

How to install Sodium mod:

• How to install fabric loader:
  • Download the fabric installer by clicking here.
  • If you’re using windows download the windows installer. If you’re using Mac or any other OS just simply download .jar installer.
  • Run the downloaded installer.
  • Choose the 1.16.1 version and the latest loader version.
  • Then click on install.
  • Done!! You’ve successfully installed Fabric.
• Installing Sodium:
  • Download Sodium mod by clicking here.
  • Open windows Run using Win+R.
  • Type %appdata% and click Run.
  • Then open “.Minecraft”.
  • Head over to the mods folder.
  • Delete mods that are incompatible with Sodium mod. Please make sure to remove all the mods including optifine and fabric API from the mods folder as optifine is incompatible with Fabric and it may even cause your game to crash.
  • Move sodium mod in the mods folder.

• Running Minecraft with Sodium:
  • Open your Minecraft launcher.
  • Choose Fabric from the version drop-down menu.
  • Then simply run Minecraft as usual.

There you go!! You’ve successfully installed Minecraft sodium Mod!!

Best settings for FPS:

For fps keep all the sodium settings default. Other settings like Graphics and smooth lighting should be fast instead of fancy. Keep render distance as low as possible you can. Make sure to keep the Biome blend lowest. Simply just drag down all the video settings low to experience the highest possible FPS.

Make sure to check out our article on the best optifine settings for fps.

Notes to keep in mind before installing Sodium mod:

• This mod is only available for 1.16.1.
• The sodium team is working on 1.16.2 currently.
• This is a modern mod so it is not available for version below 1.16
• This mod is not compatible with forge. You can only install it using Fabric.
• Sodium can be the best replacement of optifine in terms of performance. If you need shaders support and other quality features then this mod is not for you.

If you have any doubts or queries feel free to comment down below!!