ChronoFury – How to install Sodium Mod for Minecraft (FPS BOOST BETTER THAN OPTIFINE)

Yo guys it’s chrono fairy and today i’m going to be showing you how to install the sodium mod for minecraft and the sodium mod has successfully dethroned optifine as the best fps boosting mod you don’t need optifine anymore because sodium just does it so much better in terms of increasing

Your fps and don’t just take my word for it here’s a quick comparison of fps between optifine and sodium so optifine versus sodium here you can see that with optifine i get around 200 fps whereas with sodium i get close to 400 fps so that’s almost times two right of um

Optifine here so it’s a really significant difference and that’s why sodium is a really important mod for you to install for your minecraft client and i’ll also be showing you guys what are the best settings for sodium to get the maximum fps boost that will be done in the later half of

This video after the installation tutorial but before we get into the tutorial here don’t forget to leave a like because it helps more people see and benefit from this tutorial and consider subscribing to the channel as well because i upload a wide variety of minecraft content ranging from minecraft documentaries to

Even minecraft parodies okay guys let’s get started so in order to install sodium you will need three different files you will need the sodium mod itself you will need the fabric launcher and last but not least you will need fabric api the links to each of these files will be

In the description down below so you guys can just follow along so for sodium here you just want to click files and you just want to install the version of sodium that you want in this case it’s 1.16.1 but just keep in mind that the installation process works the same

For pretty much any version of minecraft so if you’re installing this for a future version of minecraft let’s say 1.17 is out then the installation process will still remain the same so i’m just going to go ahead and click this download button here and the sodium jar file should start

Downloading in a couple of seconds just wait for it and when it downloads you just want to keep the jar file and there you have the sodium file downloaded onto your computer so next we’ll move on to the fabric launcher here and there are two different installers

For windows you want to download the dot exe file but if you are using mac os or any other kinds of operating systems that isn’t windows then you want to download the java file instead and last but not least we have fabric api which enables fabric to work because fabric without fabric api

Your mods basically just won’t work so you need to go ahead and download fabric api here once again go to files select the version of fabric api that you want in my case it’s 1.16.1 so you just want to go ahead and click download so you just wait a couple of seconds and

Your download will start automatically and you just want to keep the jar file so there you have it guys you should have successfully downloaded these three files on your computer once again they are fabric installer fabric api as well as sodium so let’s go ahead and actually install

The fabric launcher first so you want to double click the dot exe file here and if you’re using the java file on mac os or some other kinds of operating systems sometimes it might launch it to winrar so in that case you just want to right click open with and select java

But you won’t have this problem with the dot exe file so if you’re using windows just double click and it will launch this screen right here make sure you have selected the right version of fabric that you want to install again it’s 1.16.1 for this video

So you just need to change it to any other version that you’re installing if you’re installing this for a future version of minecraft and then you just click install and it’s done so now what you want to do is you need to install fabric api as well as sodium

So in order to install fabric api as well as sodium you will need to navigate your dot minecraft folder and how you go about doing that is by opening windows explorer and typing in percent at data percent hit enter and you should see your dot minecraft folder here

Double click and there should be a mods folder here as well now if you guys don’t see the mods folder what you need to do is to actually launch minecraft first so you want to click your minecraft launcher and you want to select the fabric loader

1.16.1 that’s the one that you have just installed and you want to hit play so once you have launched the fabric 1.16 profile it should just create the mods folder for you so you just want to hit quit game but if you guys already have the mods

Folder then you don’t need to do that step that i showed you earlier so you just double click on your mods folder here you just want to drag in your fabric api as well as your sodium jar files here so once you have dragged in your fabric

Api and sodium jar files you are basically done now you can see that i’ve optifine here in my mods folder as well and just keep in mind guys that optifine is not compatible with sodium this means that if you run your minecraft right it won’t use sodium and optifine

At the same time to create like an ultra fps boost it doesn’t work like that you can only have either optifine or sodium running at one point of time and because we’re using fabric launcher here it actually doesn’t interfere with optifine so you can go ahead and leave the jar file in

It shouldn’t cause any compatibility issues or it shouldn’t cause your minecraft to crash or anything like that if you have opti fabric however installed then you want to go ahead and delete that file but if you have the regular optifine then you can just go ahead and

Leave it it shouldn’t cause any issues and if it does if it does cause your minecraft to crash or anything like that just delete the jar file and you should be good to go so from here what you want to do is you want to go ahead and launch minecraft

And you can see the sodium mod in action here so again hit your minecraft launcher make sure you have the fabric loader 1.16.1 profile selected or whatever version of fabric you’re installing here and just click play so if you hit f3 here you can see your fps there should be a huge increase

Compared to the default minecraft or even compared to optifine you can see right now i’m getting around close to 500 fps here and this is despite the fact that i’m actually recording this video right now which usually brings down your fps quite a bit so it’s pretty good i have absolutely no

Complaints this mod is amazing it is quite life-changing especially for those of you out there with bad computers if you get like 30 fps barely 30 fps on regular minecraft if you install this mod you should get a huge fps increase that is even greater than

Optifine and how you know that sodium is installed on the top left hand corner it should say sodium chunk here so that’s when you know you have installed sodium and of course the huge fps boost is another piece of evidence that you have installed sodium successfully

So now on to the best settings for sodium you want to click escape options and you want to go into video settings you can see there’s a bunch of settings here for you to play around with so on this menu here you don’t actually need to tweak much

Settings unless your fps is still really bad even with sodium installed so the thing that you want to change here is the view distance so you want to bring the view distance down if you are still experiencing low fps i usually like to keep mine at 12 but of

Course if your fps is not as good as you want it to be then you want to go ahead and bring this down and just click apply and you should see a significant fps increase so clouds you can turn it either on or off but it’s not really important setting because it doesn’t

Affect performance as you can see performance impact it says low the gui scale again this doesn’t affect fps same thing with full screen v-sync you don’t actually need to turn it on for the fps limit here guys you want to make sure that this is set at the maximum here which is unlimited

Because if you have an fps limit it will actually throttle your game meaning it will set the maximum fps limit so for example if you set it to 40 right your game cannot go beyond 40 fps so that’s why you want to set the fps limit to as high as possible and

You want to click apply next we’ll move on to quality here now for quality the only setting that you really need to change here is the graphics quality so if you’re still experiencing pretty bad fps and you don’t mind worse graphics right you can just switch from fancy

Over to fast and that will be a huge difference in terms of fps but for me i have no issues with fps so i’m just going to leave mine at fancy here and cloud’s quality again you can change this but it doesn’t affect the fps much same thing with weather quality as well

Now particle quality actually does affect fps a significant amount so you can go ahead and change this to medium if you want it does help your fps a little and for the rest of these things i just wouldn’t mess with it because it doesn’t affect your fps that much and in the advanced

Settings here you guys don’t need to change any of these because the default settings are usually the best so that’s pretty much it for this installation tutorial and guide if you guys have any questions be sure to post them down in the comment section down below and i’ll respond to

You as soon as possible otherwise guys uh be sure to leave a like and consider subscribing if you haven’t already done so i upload a wide variety of minecraft content here on my channel thank you guys so much for watching i hope this tutorial has helped you and

I will see you guys in the next video