There are some basic things you can do to increase your FPS, however these typically will reduce visual quality of the game

• Reduce render distance: recommended to always stay above 4.
  • In modern versions, there is also the simulation distance which can be lowered if you are using a higher render distance
• Change Graphics to fast
  • This wil cause a decrease in tree quality
• Decrease mipmap levels
  • this will reduce quality of far away blocks
• Disable clouds
• Reduce particles

These settings may be bad for standard survival gameplay, or have minimal impact on fps while reducing quality substantially

• set Weather to fast or disable entirely
• set Biome Blend to lower value
  • low values can look bad
• disable smooth lighting
  • not recommended, it looks bad
• disable vignette or set it to fast
  • highly recommended, some packs break with this set to a normal value
• in modern versions, disable distortion and fov effects
  • distortion disables nausia and portal distortion
  • fov effects disables dynamic fov

Texturepacks dont usually affect FPS, however using a texturepack with reduced animations, simplified models, or lower resolution blocks can improve fps. Check out the following packs:

• FPS Models by Qwuiblington
• FineFault by XCRunnerS
• F8thful and 4thful by Ewan Howell

Mods can dramatically improve FPS and increase game stability, in versions before 1.14 use forge or a client like lunar client, badlion client, or feather in forge and feather use the following mods:

• Optifine - click show all versions
• Patcher
• Essentials

!TODO

In newer versions, it is highly recommended to use fabric or quilt* because it is typically faster and has more mods, specifically, mods by CaffeineMC and JellySquid. The following mods are recommended for newer versions:

• REQUIRED: FABRIC API
• Sodium
• LazyDFU
• Lithium
• Dashloader
• Entity Culling-Fabric - make sure youre downloading the fabric version for your mc version ( typically the ones with a green R )
• Essentials
• No Telemetry - QOL, barely any FPS impact
• Antighost

caution zone

Krypton
FerriteCore
sodium extras
Spark

*quilt is stil in beta, but is most likely going to be a replacement for fabric

Configuring these mods is fairly simple, and when you hover over the options it will give you more detailed information, but I will go over them here

• Max Shadow Distance - if you have a high render distance, lower your shadow distance and simulation distance to 12 (the default most likely), it will help with FPS and auto-farms
• make sure everything in the Preformance tab is ON besaides Defer Chunk Updates
• feel free to change any settings in the Animations, Particles, Details, and Render tabs

go into the launcher, click the installations tab, click the 3 dots next to the installation you are using, click edit, click more options, and in the jvm arguments box, replace everything in there with a value that is with -Xmx4G -Xms4G BUT REPLACE 4GB WITH HALF YOUR RAM IF YOU DO NOT HAVE 8GB OR MORE