Preferences and Performance - nonamecrackers2/crackers-wither-storm-mod GitHub Wiki

Recommended settings/Performance settings

  • We recommend setting your entity distance to 500% to be able to see the Wither Storm as far as possible.

  • If you're facing performance issues when looking at the Wither Storm, we recommend checking out the client config, located in Pause Menu > Options > Purple "W" button > Client (or Main Menu > Mods > Cracker's Wither Storm Mod > Config > Client)

    • You can turn on "Low Res Models" which will use models with less cubes that ultimately increase performance. The overall shape of the Wither Storm is consistent between the two types of models.
    • The debris cloud is another source of lag. The debris cloud is separate to the "debris rings" which are 2D rings that orbit the Wither Storm. The "cloud" consists of small blocks that also orbit the Wither Storm. Because there are many debris particles in the cloud, rendering all of them can cause performance issues. You can disable it with "Render Debris Cloud," either make it more performant with "Render Debris 2D," or make it only render when you're up close to the Wither Storm by disabling "Render Distant Debris Cloud."
    • Block clusters, when in vast quantities, also cause frames to crumble and their rendering can be disabled via "Block Cluster Rendering."
    • You can cycle through the presets made and choose the one that works the best if you'd rather not mess with the settings yourself.

  • If you'd like to enable the boss music, you must enable “Play Boss Themes" in the client config.

  • If you're experiencing TPS lag in the higher Wither Storm phases, we recommend turning on "Squash Hitboxes" in the server config and reloading the world (do note that there may be drawbacks or issues when using this feature).

  • The ear ringing effect from the formidibomb can be disabled in the client config.

Extra Mods

We highly recommend installing Shutup Experimental Settings! as you will get prompts when creating/joining singleplayer worlds saying that it uses experimental features. This is to be ignored.

We highly recommend also installing Embeddium (instead of OptiFine) to help with performance. If you'd like to use shaders, you can install Oculus along with Embeddium.

Minecraft isn't designed to support very large entities, and because of the complex mechanics used to make the Wither Storm do what it does, it can cause large amounts of lag. We don't recommend summoning more than one Wither Storm in the same world, or else you may have serious lag issues.