HorizonLOD

Level of Detail — Minecraft

🌄 HorizonLOD

Render your world further than ever — without killing your FPS.

HorizonLOD adds a dynamic Level of Detail system that renders distant terrain at reduced complexity — letting you push your view distance far beyond what vanilla can handle, while keeping your framerate intact. See the mountain range. See the ocean. See everything.

✨ Features

Distant chunks are rendered as simplified LOD meshes — your world stretches to the horizon instead of fading into a fog wall.

Rendering far terrain at full detail is what destroys framerates. LOD complexity scaling means you get the view without paying the full price.

No jarring pop-in. No detail cliffs. Terrain blends naturally between LOD levels as you move through the world.

Works alongside your shader packs and visual mods. The distant landscape still looks the part.

Designed to hold up in demanding environments. Large worlds, many mods, high render distances — this is what it was built for.

Plays nicely with Sodium, Lithium, and the rest of your optimization stack. Stack it — don't replace it.

⚠️ Sodium Version Compatibility

HorizonLOD requires a specific version of Sodium. Using the wrong version will cause crashes or broken rendering. Always check the compatibility list on this page before installing.

💡 Get the Most Out of It

🤝 Companion Mod

Want terrain rendered before you've even explored it?

HorizonLOD Autogen pre-generates chunks in the background and feeds them directly into HorizonLOD — so your horizon is always full, even in places you've never visited.

📦 Installation

1. Check the compatibility list to find the correct Sodium version for your game version.
2. Install the matching Sodium version.
3. Grab the HorizonLOD .jar from the Files tab above.
4. Drop it into .minecraft/mods/
5. Launch. Look at the horizon. Actually see it.

HORIZONLOD

See further. Play smoother. 🏔️