bmemike
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2 years ago Players are encouraged to include the QoL mods that suit their needs. Not every one will be suitable for every player and many have preferences specifically around performance mods.
When loading the pack, most people will go to add optifine as a way to both improve performance as well as possibly run shaders. For a multitude of reasons optifine isn't on curseforge, and so cant be added to the pack by default.
However, recently a port of sodium has made its way to curseforge. Rubidium allows for greatly improved average frame times, over both vanilla and optifine rendering, and in conjuncture with oculus means playing with shaders also becomes accessible. Removing the need for optifine to be added externally. Both mods already have a 1.18.2 version, so with later updates of the pack the mods can still be added.
One of the greatest downsides of rubidium is that without addon mods for dynamic lights as well as the settings being limited without the use of yet another mod as those features aren't native. This obviously just adds more points for crashes and/or bugs to form.
As well as this there are forge mods for both lithium as well as phosphor. Both of which are a lot more experimental but can substantially improve server tps, being especially helpful in environments where there are more players. These mods however don't have versions for 1.16 so cant currently be tested.