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Tessera

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Tessera

By Bichal

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Tessera is a focused, performance-first VRAM optimization engine GPU-native using BC7 format

Mod Loaders
Minecraft
26.3 26.2
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Tessera

Up to 75% less video memoryMinecraft 1.21 – 1.21.11 and 26.1 – 26.3NeoForge, client only

Tessera makes Minecraft use less video memory. It shrinks the game's textures on your graphics card by up to 75%, and the game looks exactly the same. Helpful with big resource packs, large modpacks, or a GPU without much memory.

✨ Features

  • 🎯 Nothing to set up: install it and play.
  • 🌊 Animations keep moving: water, lava, fire and every other animated texture.
  • 🧊 No freezes while textures load: the work happens in the background.
  • 🎨 Shaders welcome: it doesn't change how the game draws, so shaders and other visual mods keep working.
  • 📊 See the savings: press F3 to see how much video memory it saves (on every version except 1.21.5 - 1.21.9).

You also need Celeris. Put both in your mods folder.

📉 What it saves

This is Tessera's corner of the F3 screen in a normal world: the textures take 3.96 MB of video memory instead of 15.84 MB.

F3: Atlas VRAM 3.96 MB of 15.84 MB, saved 11.88 MB

The more textures your packs and mods add, the more it saves. An earlier version, for comparison:

Earlier version Now
Earlier version saving 6.13 MB Current version saving 11.88 MB

🖥️ Will it work for me?

Your setup Tessera
Minecraft 1.21 – 1.21.11 and 26.1 – 26.3, NeoForge ✅ Download the file made for your version
Windows or Linux ✅ Supported
macOS ❌ macOS doesn't support the texture format Tessera needs
Servers ➖ Not needed: it runs on your computer only, and you can join any server with it

📚 Learn more

Settings, extra speed tips, how it works and the full version list are on GitHub.

Guide and source on GitHub Requires Celeris Report a bug Changelog

Code: AGPL-3.0 · Art: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Made by Bichal