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If it wouldn't be for Optifine, I would only be able to play Minecraft with seconds per frame, not the other way around

Mojang during the deal: no we dont want everyone to have a cape Mojang during migration: lets give everyone capes

Optifine is quite literally a must-have, due to how it makes Java run easier by lessening how much resources Minecraft consumes. From removing multiple checks and balances, and improving the ancient code of Minecraft.

I mostly use Optifine for Shaders at this point since I have a good Graphics Card now, but it was really nice to have back then

ive used optifine for so long, i cant remember how the base game feels. probably a good thing tho

Love how Mojang supposedly didn’t like Optifine’s zoom feature, yet they added a spyglass into the game…

I still remember as a kid making a glow stone portal and putting the water bucket in the middle only for it not to work and I was so sad 😭

Actually, a lot of modpack tries to avoid Optifine because of it's notorious incompatibility

I had the idea of doing this video myself, great video! Thank you for covering this story.

Im here since 20k man nice to see your KZfaq channel grow

Optifine just feels like it's always meant to be there, that's why people forget about it even being there because it does so well

Thanks to you, I only use Sodium Iris and a zoom mod I remember optifine on 12.2 running with more then 80-100fps only. After that version it only got around 50fps. Thanks to Sodium and Iris I can play latest version with more then 300 FPS that's awesome!

Optifine is a very polished mod and a must have mod when playing minecraft cause the performance change that it makes is huge

nowdays, in the modding community, Optifine is often the cause of breakdowns, incompatibles, and many more stuff that makes optifine not viable at all. while it was great back in the hayday, it still broke down somewhat- it was never a big one. until 1.16 happened. nowdays optifine possible breaks ore generation, fluid rendering, some multipart scripts that reuses vanila code, rendering stuff, and much more. While it is a good mod to use, and especially Shaders still have no other option(other than Iris, which is fabric only), its not your go to choice for optimization, unlike 1.12 or back. Optifine slightly nukes the stuff you dont see often(like edges of the render distance that you normally dont care) in order to get more fps. Sodium, and its series, Lithium, Phosphor does this way better, without the render distance stuff. All optimization mods are certified to break mods that are tad bit different from vanila, which is what performance mods go after. That is great. But nowdays optifine's brokenness have gone iut of control for modders, not to mention better alternatives that dont nuke the game much as optifine. if you're not using optifine for shaders, there isnt much incentive to run optifine- for shaders, sure. there wasnt an alternative, especially in the forge modding scene to replace those shaders. but in modding fashion, optifine is not the bible you go for like the olden days. more of a relic of an past, that couldnt keep up properly.

im really used to watch speedruning content, and let me tell you, your channel is one of the best content creators of the community.

10:37 Wait a minute, THAT'S ME!

Please don't forget to give credit for my Terralith datapack being used in the description of the video!

7:38 Gave me whiplash like nothing else lmao. Literally a flood of 2012/2013 Mitch and the bois

man your videos have so much replay value

I’ve been looking forward to this

IMO, The future is with CaffineMC mods & other mods that add other Optifine features. Iris shaders gives far more performant shaders than Optifine, and dedicated mods for other features give a lot more customization.

Recently I've discovered the amazing combination of: Sodium and Entity Culling. No lag what so ever, not even in the busiest world, with villager farms and colossal storage systems. Works like a charm in my old 4core i5, constant 150 fps... in. any. situation. And to finish: you can swap Sodium for IRIS (cause it's already built in). Amazing performance. Plus, Sodium fixes the atrocious native smooth lighting bugs.

Nice vid bro! Fun fact: at 4:22 when you said "so" i got a mobile ad and i thought it was funny

I said this before, I want a video about minecraft modding - not just most famous mods. Mod developers, drama, platforms, modloaders, etc. And I used almost every popular mod, since I'm a modded player

i wish 1.19 would be a combine combat/performance update. just imagine that. the new world gen would be optimised so that we can walk around without our toaster PCs on fire, and pvp will be changed for the better.

there is a mod called iris shaders mod and it's basically sodium with shaders and the developers are trying to make it more like optifine. also I get over 1000 fps with it! it's insanley op

Already expecting a great vid

Well this was an unexpected video. I can confirm that optifine helped me play minecraft java from 2016 until I got my new pc in early 2020.

The one click install without needing forge is really nice.

*Sodium + Iris:* *Exists *Optifine:* Finally! A worthy opponent!

I would say Minecraft devs are 49% of development with their ideas and groundwork as well as concept art and a bunch of other features while moders such as sp614x, sodium devs, and shader makers as well as other creators who make mods that completely change the experience of Minecraft att together inspiring both Mojang and the Minecraft community.

It's a good day when TheMisterEpic uploads.

ive memorized his upload schedule: early Sunday morning

5:00 I ALWAYS WONDERED HOW SOME MINECRAFT USERS HAD GRASS BLOCKS LIKE THAT

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Oh wow now this is very lovely to know

Hey Epic, can you make a video on MrCrayfish? The modding and redstone legend? He doesn't get that enough attention he deserves and you feel like the perfect guy to do it.

OptiFine, TooManyItems and SinglePlayerCommands along with WorldEdit were my "standard mod-base" back then.

I started playing Minecraft again after 11 years (I played the alpha back in early 2010) when I built my new RTX PC a couple of months ago. Playing with ray-tracing felt incredible. Sadly, the server I joined supports snapshots (I had no idea what that was lol) and now I have to play without ray-tracing.

I was like “X-ray? no way something different… optifine for sure”

Optifine is ok but is known to break some game mechanics, mods like sodium+starlight+iris and some others perform much better while having the same features.

Part of the popularity is that a lot of other mods and modpacks are dependant on it.

Very nice video mate!

How are you just going to skip over the huge part of optifines history that was just taken from MCPatcher? Kahr developed most of Optifines texture pack related features for MCPatcher long before sp614x incorporated them. Same with the shaders, another mod that was developed as two seperate shader mods that got incorporated into Optifine. Your history lesson is far from accurate.

Optifine is cool and all, but sodium is now the superior mod for me. Fabric is just better in my case and with all the alternatives it makes it up for the better performance. Also iris, it exist and is getting really good as time goes on.

You: Many people cant play mineecraft without it! Me: Cleary Optfine i forget this is a mod lol

Probably the most impactful mod no one has heard about is cubed chunks. It turned chunks into 16x16x16 chunks which minecraft later put into the game (way back in beta before they increased world height) in a lesser form under the hood which drastically improved chunk load times. Cube chunks was still better for smoother loading on lower end systems but minecrafts 16x16x64 ended up being more optimal for all hardware which is what allowed for the increase in world height to 256 the change improved chunk loading so much.

I remember back in the days were mods in Minecraft were so popular good times

I feel like Mojang hasn't always given Optifine or other performance mods much credit, the java version's code is really really herrendous and outdated that at times playing Minecraft without Optifine or Sodium might literally be unplayable

Omg what were the maps you were using in the video? I loved the old architecture.

damm remembering when downloading mods were a pain back then, using winrar then having to delete meta inf or something. having to see if the mods were compatible

Last time I forgot to install optifine, my game had 3/4 fps and after a couple minutes of lagging it simply crashed. I own all my Minecraft experience to Optifine

it would be nice if sodium was mentioned next! its a lot faster than optifine, and combined with fabulously optimized its just much better than optifine

One of the most flexible, useful, and satisfying mods to exist.

Grass blocks with a grassy texture on the side?! No frickin way... Thats been driving me crazy since I started playing MC. I need this in my life.

In fact, Optifine is so broken that if you managed to turn about 94 million degrees in 0.05 seconds, you would go almost 11% faster than your usual speed, and stacking that would make a 5 block jump possible even on flat momentum!

Optifine is pretty neat I have to say

Optifine: Making Minecraft better than Minecraft could since beta.

"An tie ay lee iss ing" as opposed to "anti a lye iss ing" by the way. Same way you'd say an alternate alias or pen name. Nice history content! I'd never heard of Optimine or Optifog because I played the game in a web browser way back when. Cool to know what I missed.

As soon as you said most players can’t play without it I knew it was optifine 😂 literally can’t play without it

imagine selling 35 million moddable copies and 100 million downloads on 1 mods

The main cause of lag for me is basicly how minecraft works. There was something with beta that made it run very fast. Nowadays though, even on a superflat world, minecraft lags a lot for some reason. Even with much more entities, insane terrain generation, beta is much more smooth on my pc

Now it going to be replaced by Fabric IRIS and Sodium.

everyone here forgetting about sodium

Optifine is closed source :(

Literally talking to myself through the intro *it's gotta be optifine*. Announces that's its optifine. *Histerical laughter*

Yea I remember, but I didn't even know it boosted performances, had a good pc, only installed it for zoom and capes

I tried Optifine, but wasnt satisfied with the results. Now that I found Sodium it is much better. Only a few graphic glitches are annoying me since then...

I dont use it since it gives less fps for me for some reason like in vanilla i have around 150-200 fps and when using optifine it drops to 100fps

Iris with sodium on fabric is amazing

Terraria's most popular mod: makes the game lag Minecraft's most popular mod: delets fog

I have a feeling OptiFine is going to be even more necessary for a lot of people with 1.18 given the performance hit with the new heights and depths.

Fabric might be replacing OptiFine. For me it already has.

When you are actually very fast but won’t say first:

when i was a kid this mod was the only reason i was able to play minecraft with like 15-30fps lol i now have a 4090 and 5800x3d and playing with high end shaders its mad looking back at how minecraft has grown gg

i think that Mojang could probably optmize the game even better than optifine if they made a update only for that, but the problem would be that people wouldnt like it and could even result people attacking the devs , even if the update is for perfomance reasons, like the 1.15 update where they focused mostly on fixing bugs and perfomance of the game, but a lot of people hated because content-wise it hadnt a lot of things

optifine went from fixing most issues to breaking most things

Me during new mc update: Refreshing optifine downloads page every 5 seconds

Great video! I'm actually surprised you didn't pick the JEI Mod which also has over 100 million downloads. Also, I'm curious why you didn't mention how Optifie's "performance increases" are not universal, the negative impacts Optifine has on inter-mod compatibility and why newer mods like Iris and Sodium are becoming popular. I'm not sure if you are aware, but the way Optifine adds their "performance enhancements" is extremely invasive to mods. This is similar to a someone ripping up the plumbing beneath a house without telling you what they did. They change alot of core Minecraft mod code most mods rely on. Optifine's source code is also not publicly available so modders cannot know what Optifine did. For example, Optifine in 1.16.3 once had a major bug that stopped any custom world generation feature from spawning, leaving empty biomes. Modders could not do anything about it until Optifine solved it themselves several months later since the changes were very deep and source code was not visible. Optifine's performance enhancements are also not guaranteed. It varies depending on computer hardware. Sometimes it optimises well, sometimes no noticeable effect or other times worse performance. A few of the reasons newer mods like Sodium and Iris are generally better for mod compatibility is that their features generally outperform Optifine. Their source code is publicly visible, so at least modders can start to understand compaitibility issues. Optifine is undoubtedly an amazing mod and achieves things few other mods can, but it has some glaring issues which should be worth noting.

I'm sticking with optifine until we get alternatives for resourcepack features

Hi, do you have the interest of 1 6 and 0

TheMisterEpic likes SAO... Now this is epic

People talk about Sodium and other mods, but like it’s nice to have all the features in one. Iris may have shaders, but it doesn’t let you configure them. The ConnectedTexturesMod doesn’t have overlays and follows a different format from what all packs have been using for years. I haven’t seen anything for Custom Entity Models or name based textures. Having alternatives is nice, but until there are enough mods that match all of Optifines features, I’m sticking with it.

Time of optifine is over, sodium, lithium, phosphor, hydrogen, ferritecore, iris shaders (starline fork) they have made optifine obsolete and its not even close...triple/quadrupled performance at no visual impact with shaders as well. Just as optifine + forge was an age old combination, the new best combo is sodium + fabric, and it is the future of optimized minecraft.

The count would be higher too but now many people use clients and for a lot of players playing with mod packs or just getting the download not officially from Optifine I wouldn’t be surprised if there were hundreds millions more unaccounted for downloads.

nice terrain generator! I like terralith too

not gonna watch it yet as it's 2:30AM here in the UK at the time of the video going live. I will watch it when I awaken tomorrow, but I already know it's gonna be a good video.

"10 fps was a lot back then", it still is lol, at least for me.

It's too bad Optifabric won't be supported from now on. It was always great to have my Fabric only mods and still run Optifine.

In those years ago I install this mod because it make the glass texture connect to each other and also the ability to zoom lol

i have a beefy enough computer that i don't really get that much lag, and shaders are nice but not required. but connected and variated textures are a must have for me

0:12 haven't played MC in a long time... when I saw this I thought "DANG, TMI changed that much ?" Last time I used mods, everyone was switching to JEI, as I did.

I usually dont play Minecraft updates until there's an OptiFine release

You are the best in telling stories

"it was still running shockingly with my rtx 3080" but that's because a singleplayer world is cpu dependant, so a graphics card doesnt have anything to do with it. In a multiplayer world your computer relies more on GPU but that is because the server is being hosted on another device/server where that cpu must load all chunks. Therefore it's always way smoother to play on a multiplayer server rather than a singleplayer world.

Too many items is too nostalgic

If nobody's tried it yet and runs a low-mod Minecraft install, try Iris. Iris can over-double your FPS, but it's Fabric only so doesn't work with full Forge installs. Bonus, it supports almost all Optifine shaderpacks -- you need a separate mod for connected textures and a further separate mod for dynamic lighting which can be finicky (and needs not only Fabric, but Fabric API too), but even with all that I run with shaders at the same speed on Iris I run with Optifine with no shaders -- with no shaders it's fully doubled over Optifine with no shaders.

In my opinion minecraft should hire a few developers that primarily focus on game optimization, including a bit of playtesting on older pcs. And if a feature causes more than a 10% framerate drop, they or the ones working on that feature try to rework it to where it best it can while not causing a significant framerate decline. And if they can't, decide how important the feature is. Probably way harder than I'm imagining it but that could MAYBE work.

I still don't understand why Mojang can't just program the stuff Optifine does themselves. Maybe they can't buy it, but surely if one guy can program such optimizations then Mojang's entire team can also program the same optimizations?