Mercurizer

A Sodium addon built for hardware that can't handle Sodium. Most "performance" mods assume you have a dedicated GPU and at least 8GB of RAM. Mercurizer doesn't. It's a Sodium addon designed specifically for integrated graphics, 4GB of RAM, and the kind of PC that struggles with Windows 10.

Sodium is great — but it still has a performance floor that leaves a lot of players behind, especially in developing countries where "gaming PC" means integrated graphics and 4GB of RAM, not a GTX 1080 Ti.

Mercurizer goes further. The goal is simple:

Give players with low-end hardware the ability to play Minecraft at a smooth framerate.

What makes it different from plain Sodium?

• Auto-tuning benchmark — on the first 3 launches, Mercurizer benchmarks your GPU upload bandwidth, round-trip driver latency, and CPU throughput, then automatically tunes chunk upload budgets and texture animation thresholds to match your exact hardware. Results are averaged across all 3 runs for accuracy, and re-run automatically if you change GPU or drivers
• Adaptive refinement — after 30 seconds of stable gameplay, Mercurizer refines its tuning based on real in-game frame times, improving accuracy beyond what the startup benchmark alone can achieve
• Anti-stutter recovery — upload fraction cuts quickly when frames spike, recovers slowly when stable, preventing the oscillation that causes micro-stutters
• VSync-aware — automatically applies a more conservative upload budget when VSync is enabled to avoid blocking the render thread
• Safety mode for old hardware — Intel Gen 8 and older, and certain AMD driver configurations, automatically get conservative single-threaded settings that prevent driver crashes
• Real low-end benchmarks — tested on actual budget hardware. 37 FPS to 114 FPS on integrated graphics — 3.08x Sodium's performance!

Specs: MacBook Air 2017, i5-5350U, 8GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 6000, Debian 13 (KDE Plasma)

Settings: 16 chunks render distance, Vsync off, rest is vanilla, in a normal world (no superflat/amplified/etc)

Mercurizer Version: 0.9.1-beta.2+mc26.2-1.1, 0.9.1-beta.2+mc26.1.2-1.1, 0.8.9+mc26.1.1-1.5, 0.8.9+mc26.1-1.5 and 0.8.13-beta.2+mc1.21.11-1.1

• Players on integrated graphics (Intel HD, AMD Vega, etc.)
• Players with 4GB of RAM or less
• Anyone who tried Sodium and still struggled
• Players in developing countries where budget hardware is the norm

• Minecraft: 1.21.11+ (Java Edition)
• Loader: Fabric
• Requires Sodium to be installed alongside it
• Fully compatible with Iris, Sodium Extra, and Reese's Sodium Options

Expect bugs — Mercurizer is in active development. If something breaks, report it and include your hardware specs.

Mercurizer is one of the core optimization mods behind Potato Optimizer by Edonme Studios — an ultra-lightweight modpack built for PCs that struggle to run modern Minecraft. Check it out: EdonMe

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Made with love by Edonme Studios for every player who was told their PC was too weak to play.