Sodium Extras is a powerful add-on mod designed to significantly enhance the capabilities of Sodium, and by extension Embeddium on older versions of Minecraft. It addresses numerous aspects of the game's performance and visual presentation, offering a more refined and customizable experience for players. The mod introduces features that tackle rendering inefficiencies, visual clutter, and user interface limitations, ultimately aiming to provide a smoother and more enjoyable gameplay environment for those who utilize Sodium for their optimization needs. This mod operates by introducing a suite of new functionalities that directly interact with and extend the existing features of Sodium. It implements advanced rendering techniques and optimizations, such as entity culling to prevent the rendering of distant entities, a more informative and customizable FPS counter for better performance analysis, and an option for borderless fullscreen mode for improved alt-tabbing. Additionally, it offers visual tweaks like true darkness for more realistic lighting, the ability to toggle fog, and disable font shadows to speed up text rendering, along with configurable cloud height and seamless integration with dynamic lighting mods. Sodium Extras is compatible with a range of Minecraft versions, specifically supporting 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.4, and 1.21.5. It is designed to work with the Fabric, Forge, and NeoForged mod loaders. Importantly, this mod is required on the client-side only, meaning it needs to be installed on the player's machine to function. It is not supported on the server-side, as its features are purely client-side enhancements and optimizations. To install Sodium Extras, you should place the mod file into the 'mods' folder of your Minecraft installation. This location is standard for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForged mod loaders. Before launching the game, ensure that you have the core Sodium mod (or Embeddium for older versions) already installed, as Sodium Extras is an add-on and relies on its presence to function correctly. Verifying the correct placement of the mod file and the presence of its dependencies is crucial for successful installation and operation.
