How to download Minecraft 1.18.1 Sodium 1.17 and get FPS Boost

Minecraft players are always looking for new mods to enhance their experience and Sodium is one of the most popular mods.

Minecraft has maintained its dominance as one of the most popular games out there, and we’ve seen some exciting updates released over the past few months. With the release of Caves and Cliffs Part 2, a lot of new things have come into the game.

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With the release of new updates, mods often stop working and players have to search for new versions of mods. One of such mods is Sodium, which significantly improves performance. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

How to download Minecraft 1.18.1 Sodium 1.17

Installing and downloading Sodium is a rather complicated process for Minecraft players. First you need to make sure you have a Fabric Feeder. To do that, you need to visit the Fabric Downloads page here and then install it. Make sure you use the correct version of the mapper and loader before installing.

Next, you need to make sure you’ve downloaded Sodium. You can easily get it from here. Go to Run menu, enter %appdata%. Minecraftmods and click Run. Paste the Sodium folder here. Once done, just start the Minecraft launcher and select Fabric to start using Minecraft with Sodium.

Features of Minecraft Sodium

• A modern OpenGL rendering pipeline for fractional rendering that leverages the multi-draw technique, allowing for a significant reduction in CPU overhead (~90%) when rendering the world. This can make a big difference to frame rates for most computers that aren’t bottlenecked by the GPU or other components. Even if your GPU can’t keep up, you’ll experience much more consistent frame times since the CPU can work on other rendering tasks in the meantime.
• Vertex data for rendered parts is made much more compact, allowing for almost 40% reduction in video memory and bandwidth requirements.
• Neighborhood block updates now take advantage of multithreading, significantly reducing the latency caused by blocks needing to be updated.
• Cubic faces that are not visible (or facing away from the camera) are removed very early in the rendering process, removing tons of geometry that would only be processed on the GPU for immediate removal. For integrated GPUs, this can greatly reduce memory bandwidth requirements and provide a modest speed even when GPU is constrained.
• Rich optimizations for chunk loading and block rendering, which make chunk loading significantly faster and with less framerate damage.
• Many optimizations for vertex construction and matrix transformation, increase block entity speed, mobs, and item rendering dramatically when you get carried away putting too many chests in a room.
• Many improvements to the way the game manages memory and allocates objects, thus reducing memory consumption and latency caused by garbage collector operations.
• Multiple graphic fixes for smooth lighting effects that make the game run better while still applying a healthy amount of optimization.
• Smooth illumination for liquids and other special blocks.
• Smooth bio-blend for blocks and fluids, providing significantly improved graphics quality with significantly less computational cost.
• Dynamic textures that are not visible in the world will not be updated, speeding up texture updates on most hardware (especially AMD cards).