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DarkArcana edited this page Dec 7, 2021 · 3 revisions

Hello and thanks for giving Smashing Mods Together a try! This page should lead you to where you need to be if you have any questions or issues.

Enable/Disable Mods

Everyone's computer is a little bit different. We've tried to make SMT work well on most configurations, but you might have low FPS or want the game to look better. To make this easier for you, SMT includes some mods that you can either enable or disable.

  • Halogen (default: enabled): This mod will improve your FPS. It works a lot like Optifine. If you encounter any weird rendering issues or want to install Optifine instead, disable this first.

  • Chunk Animator (default: disabled): This mod works for most people, but it is known to cause severe FPS lag on some computers. Chunk Animator is entirely incompatible with Halogen. To use Chunk Animator (I would recommend giving it a try!), you need to first disable Halogen and then enable this.

  • Better Animations Collection (default: enabled): This mod adds some fun new animations to all sorts of stuff in the game. But it might cause some lag for some people. While this is unlikely, I've included it in this list.

  • Better Biome Blend (default: enabled): This mod will come enabled, but the biome blend radius will be set to default 5x5. You can increase it all the way to 29x29 which looks quite nice. Halogen sets the max at 7x7, so to set it higher you must remove Halogen (temporarily to access the vanilla video settings menu).

  • Dynamic Surroundings (default: enabled): Improved the visual (and audio) look and feel of the game. Uses a lot of particles for rendering things. Disable this mod if you are having issues with FPS to remove the particles.

Other mods that are safe to disable are listed below. You can disable any of these mods while still being able to connect to a server. This isn't an extensive list of all client side only mods; just the ones that some people have expressed some preference for or against or might have some effect on the game visuals.

  • AmbientSounds4: all of the ambient sounds, like birds chirping, come from this mod.
  • Blur: blurs guis like the inventory.
  • Farsight: continues rendering chunks you've been in that may not be loaded anymore.
  • GooglyEyes: adds googly eyes to mobs. Some people don't like this. Those people are crazy.
  • InventoryHUD+: Adds heads up display for equipped items, potions, etc.
  • Item Borders: Adds a colored border around items with colored tooltip text.
  • Item Highlighter: Highlights new items that you picked up with a star symbol in your inventory.
  • ItemPhysic Lite: Changes how items appear when they are in the world. They have physics and will fall on the ground rather than floating in place.
  • Loot Beams: Dropped items will render a beam of light.
  • Nicephore: Easily access your screenshots in game.
  • Presence Footsteps: Renders foot prints and changes some sounds.
  • Windowed Fullscreen: Turns fullscreen into a borderless fullscreen window. Some people do not like this.

Java Performance (CurseForge)

Minecraft for 1.16.5 ships an older version of Java that lacks performance and security improvements. The OldJavaWarning mod will tell you that your version of Java is out of date and you need to update it. You might even have a newer version of Java installed on your computer. But if you don't, make sure to do that here:

https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

You have to make sure your Launcher knows how to use this version of Java. Using CurseForge, this is pretty simple. You need to open the Launcher settings, navigate to Minecraft settings, scroll to the bottom, and input the Java args shown below.

Additional Java Arguments:

-version:1.8+ -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:G1HeapWastePercent=5 -XX:G1MixedGCCountTarget=4 -XX:G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent=90 -XX:G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent=5 -XX:SurvivorRatio=32 -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 -XX:G1NewSizePercent=30 -XX:G1MaxNewSizePercent=40 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=32M -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=15

Open CurseForge Settings Menu

Add JVM Arguments

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