Mind-Blowing! Must-See Minecraft Mod: Distant Horizons

I can’t really see that far and now if I turn it on boom Oh my God this mod singlehandedly got me to start playing Minecraft again it’s called distant Horizons and you can see what it does right here it increases the render distance in Minecraft it does so by

Using a technology that’s in most other games nowadays but not in Minecraft probably because Minecraft’s base code is pretty bad and so it doesn’t allow for things like this to be easily implemented I think but I’m going to walk you through why I use it why it’s

So essential that I literally can’t play without it and what it does and how it works so in Minecraft I don’t really like to build that much because I’m not good at it you can see my house is really really bad this is where I put my

Horse cuz I haven’t built a little stable for him but what I like to do because I explore is to build these big towers like you can see see right here and why do I build this Towers because let’s say that I’m exploring and I want

To go back to base because my inventory is full normally I have no idea where my base is and I don’t really like using F3 like in terms of immersion I it doesn’t do it for me but with the tower I can just look and see because it’s so tall

That it’s above most of the tree line and now I know where my base is and I can walk back to it but the reason why I can see the tower is because of the mod without the mod at 16 render distance I can’t see it I have to push the render

Distance to 22 to be able to see it and for a lot of computers that’s not really possible that might be a little bit too demanding for example I have a Triton 300 SE which has a 370 I believe an Nvidia 37d but you might hear it throughout this video my laptop is

Really increasing ining the fence speeds because it doesn’t like it it doesn’t like how much it has to work because Minecraft is poorly optimized and I’m not even that far from my base I’m going to put the render distance at 16 again and you can see that there’s the bamboo

Forest right here and if it wants to load my house is right here so you know between here and here I should be able to see my tower and where it got to be really immersion breaking for me is is when I would walk across a plane to find

A village for example and then I would look back and my tower would be gone so here if I turn around I I can’t see the tower and this might sound stupid to some people but for me it’s very immersion breaking there’s no mountains there’s no tall trees to block my view

And yet I can’t find this very tall structure in a game where building is like the entire thing what’s the point of building building big imposing structures especially to be able to get around if I can’t see them if I walk like 500 M and so if I enable distant

Horizons this little logo with the default number of chunks 128 immediately you’re going to see the difference because everything around me is going to start to appear and you can see the tower you can see mountains you can see the different B biomes around me and this is just

120 uh chunks I usually play at 200 and I feel like it’s been performing very well so how does this work it uses a technology called lods level of details so take a game like breath of the wild for example in breath of the wild the render distance is very very very big

But things rendered in the distance are not rendered at the same level level of detail as things close to you so for example enemies won’t start appearing until you get close to them this is also the case for things like trees and mountains you can see the general

Details of a mountain in the distance but you have to start to get close to it until the details start really rendering so basically things that are far away are rendered in groups of blocks instead of rendering every individual block the mod groups blocks together and renders

Them as such so if I stop right here you might or might not see it but the cherry blossoms trees in the distance the pink blocks near my cursor are blocks they’re not really rendered as full trees you can kind of see this with my tower here

It appears that there’s like a large amount of wood blocks surrounding the middle ladder thing but that’s not the case and that’s because the mod is grouping the wood blocks and approximating what that grouping looks like if it makes any sense so you’re going to see that as I get closer

Details of the tower are going to be more apparent it seems like there’s a big block of wood here and boom it disappears and why that’s useful is because you don’t really need a lot of details for things in the distance because they’re in the distance so for

Example I now know because of the pink blocks this is a cherry blossom biome I don’t care that the trees are not rendered exactly as they appear if I got up close because I can’t see them from up close because I’m far away and if this is too blocky for you and your

Computer can handle it you can even increase the quality preset or decrease it uh I don’t decrease it to low because although it’s better for performance uh the it just looks too blocky for me and why I also like this mod is because I like my mods to just enhance the vanilla

Experience I don’t like mods that add anything to the game I want my saves from my Minecraft worlds to work both with the base game or with the modded game so how can you download this mod this version I believe is still only downloadable from the announcement tab

Of their Discord server now I don’t know how compatible this is with other mods it’s compatible with sodium and I installed it using Fabric and so to illustrate how powerful this mod is uh right now it’s at 128 uh chunks but I’m going to raise it

To 200 cuz I’ve been doing that lately and just to show you I’m going to climb this Tower and look at that you can clearly see the tower in the distance you can see all the biomes around us I’m going to do a quick comparison this is 16 render distance with the mod off and this is 16 render distance with the mod on with 200 render distance off

On I mean it’s night and day for me and now the reason why I love this mod so much is I built this big tower and as you can see with a 16 render distance I can’t really see that far around me and

Now if I turn it on boom Oh my God and you can see that it loaded instantly because I believe it stores rendered chunks so it doesn’t have to reload every single time but oh my gosh how can I play without this mod ever again Minecraft really needs to add lods

Natively you can find the download links in the description thanks for watching drop a like if you liked it and I’ll see you later