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Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod

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Massively increase render distance without harming performance.

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Minecraft

26.3 26.2

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I Think I Can See Mt. Everest From Here!

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Total 1,000 hrs MC 1.21

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An incredible technical feat! Distant Horizons allows players to continue seeing the chunks that they've loaded while exploring the world. This allows for massive landscapes that can be viewable at any distance! Minecraft has never felt so large and vast with it's fairly low render distances. This mod is a MUST for me personally nowadays, and with shaders, it's even more beautiful!

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Total 1,000 hrs MC 1.21

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Either Side, Better on Both

Works on the client or the server alone, but does more when on both.

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GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

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3.3.2 - 26.3 neo/fabric

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Distant Horizons

Distant Horizons allows you to achieve extreme (256+) chunk render distances at a low performance cost.
Now you can finally enjoy that mountain top lookout tower.

Mountain top villager This photo was taken with a Minecraft render distance of 8 and a mod distance of 512.

FAQ:

Q: Forge or Fabric?

A: MC 1.20.6 and newer - NeoForge and Fabric are both in the same jar.
MC 1.20.4 and older - Forge and Fabric are both in the same jar.

Q: Shaders?

A: Yes, but only with certain shaders.

Optifine: DH partially works with forward rendered shaders.
Iris (and equivalent ports): DH 2.1.0+ only works with Iris 1.7+ and only with shaders built with DH support in mind.
- DH 2.0 and older don't work with Iris.

Q: Does this work with player created structures?

A: Yes.

Q: Does this render using my GPU?

A: Yes.
Distant Horizons uses OpenGL or Vulkan for graphics rendering.

Q: Is there multiplayer support?

A: Yes

client side only:
If you only have DH installed on your client LODs will be saved between sessions, although you have to explore the world to load them.

Server and Client:
If DH is installed on the server and client, LODs will automatically be sent to each connected user that has DH installed and has Distant Generation Enabled set to true, disabling distant generation on the server will prevent LODs from being sent to the users.

Q: My game is stuttering, help!

A: Try each of the following steps:

Use a concurrent garbage collector like ZGC for Java 21+ or Shenandoah for Java 8-17
- This can be done via your JVM arguments (args)
Increase Minecraft's allocated RAM
- For CPUs with 4-8 cores: try allocating 6-8 GB
- For CPUs with 10+ cores: try allocating 12-16 GB
Lower DH's CPU load in the DH config menu
Disabling DH's "Distant Generation" in the DH config menu
Lower DH's "Graphics Preset" in the DH config menu

Q: Where can I download the Bukkit plugin?

A: The bukkit plugin has its own separate download page:
https://modrinth.com/plugin/distant-horizons-support

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Support us:

If you want to help with development, join our discord and let us know!

Otherwise, if you can't help with development but still want to support Distant Horizons, check out our donation page:
ko-fi.com/distanthorizons

Distant Horizons allows you to achieve extreme (256+) chunk render distances at a low performance cost. <Br> Now you can finally enjoy that mountain top lookout tower.

Mountain top villager

This photo was taken with a Minecraft render distance of 8 and a mod distance of 512.