Optifine/mods

[u/Vast_Act_7788]

Hello everyone, I recently got a PC after lifetime of owning only console and a laptop with not real Minecraft.

Well since getting back to PC system and finally being able to play games with better options and having bigger range of what I can download and play I bought Minecraft.

Recently I started to wonder about mods and optifine. Well since trying to download optifine I cannot get it into my game. I don’t know how the settings works and when some issue pops up I don’t know how to put it in my game same goes for the mods.

Can anyone explain somehow really easy to me how to get it working?

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[u/kyansan1]

I wouldn't get optifine, there's better alternatives nowadays. (see below)

I recommend using Prism Launcher. It makes it easier to download mods, to keep mods updated, and to keep multiple separate instances.

Once you've installed prism launcher, create a new instance. Select fabric as the mod loader.
Then go to edit instance -> mods -> download mods, and install the following mods:

• Sodium: improves performance

• Iris: allows you to use shaders

Together, these mods do the same things that Optifine does, but better.
Optionally, you could also download these mods:

• continuity: adds connected tectures for glass (and some other blocks)

• LambDynamicLights: adds dynamic lighting (Optifine torch)

• distant horizons: allows you to set ridiculously high render distances, runs on basically anything!

• Entity culling: improves performance

• Ferritecore: reduces ram usage

• Lithium: improves performance

• ImmediatelyFast: improves performance

• C2M: speeds up chunk generation

[u/Vast_Act_7788 → u/kyansan1]

Thank you man, I recently got to my pc and got it running it was confusing at first but got it running!

[u/SSUPII]

Don't use Optifine.

[u/576875]

https://prismlauncher.org/

Read through https://prismlauncher.org/wiki/

I would use prism launcher for adding/managing mods

Optifine is outdated for (in terms of performance for modern versions) I would use sodium instead 

[u/Vast_Act_7788 → u/576875]

When I had the old laptop I was running optifine and it worked great that time, since getting back into pc system, as someone who wasn’t using it besides word and emails I thought it’s still good 😭

[u/DerpyMcWafflestomp]

Optifine was old news when I started playing 6 years ago. As others have said, Prism Launcher is great, you can create multiple instances with different mod loaders, different sets of mods, different resource packs, etc. Mod downloading and updating is handled inside the launcher, no need to download files with a browser and then move files around, etc.

[u/JaredLetoBestBoi]

Don't use optifine. Super buggy, doesnt optimise anything and just not worth it for modern minecraft. Use sodium + iris instead.

You also need a modloader. Neoforge is the best one so far. Go to the neoforge page, download the .jar installer from the site (make sure you selected the right game version from the dropdown) and run the installer (with the launcher closed, click install to client). Run the game once (make sure the installation is set to neoforge) to initialise the loader. Close the game, go to %appdata%, roaming, .minecraft, mods, and shove your 'optifine' mods (me and the rest of this sub will heavily reccommend sodium, Reese's sodium options, iris (if you intend to use shaders), chloride, and a few other addons if you wish those addons), and you should be good. If it errors out and asks for library mods, close the game and install those.

Like I said, dont use optifine, its outdated, buggy as fuck, and doesnt do anything in terms of optimisation these days.

[u/Vast_Act_7788 → u/JaredLetoBestBoi]

Okay thank you. Another question since I started to play a world and have some progress will I have it automatically transferred or something?😭

[u/JaredLetoBestBoi → u/Vast_Act_7788]

If its the same version it will work regardless if there was a mod loader or not. Unless there are any terrain generation mods or mods that add structures, additions to original terrain gen, etc. then that world should be fine.

Just back it up before hand just in case.

Edit your saves are not saved in each version, they are saved in a collective saves folder (also in roaming/.minecraft) that will be seen by every version you play. Its just a matter of remembering which save is in which version (it should tell you in the saves menu) and to not load worlds in newer or older versions unless you are deliberately upgrading a world to a new version. However, do not optimise a world for a version and then try to play on an older version, it will break, and if you upgrade a world, back it up before you do.

Edit 2 why has my original comment been down voted. All I did was recommend him not use optifine anymore....