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Sodium Relief

Mod

Smooth tooltip & hover stutter in inventory-like GUI (Sodium companion)

Type

Mod

Modrinth Downloads

364

Modrinth ID

hoTWysuQ

Last Updated

May 31, 2026

Description

๐Ÿš€ Smooth your Minecraft inventory experience

Minecraft inventories can feel slightly stuttery โ€” especially when hovering items, opening chests, or using modded GUIs. Sodium Relief is a lightweight, client-side optimization mod that reduces small tooltip and hover-related stutter without changing gameplay.

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โš™๏ธ What it does

Smooths tooltip rendering on inventory-like screens Reduces redundant tooltip recalculations Stabilizes hover behavior when moving the cursor across items Caches text-width measurements for repeated strings (like item stack counts) Improves responsiveness in chests, menus, and modded interfaces

๐Ÿง  How it works

Sodium Relief optimizes the tooltip pipeline by:

  • caching tooltip layout results (LRU + TTL)
  • reusing previously computed tooltip data on unchanged hovers
  • avoiding unnecessary recomputation during fast cursor movement
  • caching repeated text-width measurements instead of recomputing them every frame
  • applying lightweight hover-smoothing logic

All optimizations are client-side, safe, and designed to work alongside Sodium. When in doubt about an item or screen, it falls back to vanilla behavior.

๐ŸŽฏ When it helps

You'll notice the biggest improvement when:

  • opening large inventories (chests, storage systems)
  • quickly hovering over many items
  • using mods with heavy or complex tooltips
  • experiencing subtle UI micro-stutter

โ— What this mod does NOT do

  • โŒ Does NOT increase FPS in the world
  • โŒ Does NOT optimize chunks, rendering, or GPU load
  • โŒ Does NOT act as a general performance booster

This is a focused GUI-smoothness mod, not a full optimization suite.

๐Ÿงฉ Compatibility

  • โœ” Fabric โ€” Minecraft 1.21.11 (Java 21) and 26.1.x (Java 25)
  • โœ” Client-side only
  • โœ” Requires Fabric API ยท works best alongside Sodium ยท Mod Menu optional
  • โœ” Server-safe (no gameplay changes)
  • ๐ŸŒ Available in English, Russian and Ukrainian

๐Ÿ’ก Why use Sodium Relief?

Most performance mods focus on rendering or world logic. Sodium Relief focuses on UI smoothness โ€” solving a small but noticeable source of micro-stutter that's usually ignored.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Installation

  1. Install Fabric Loader + Fabric API
  2. Download the jar matching your Minecraft version
  3. Drop it into your mods/ folder

(Installing through the Modrinth App handles dependencies for you.)

โค๏ธ Support

If you enjoy the mod, consider supporting development or leaving feedback โ€” it directly shapes future versions (v1.1+).

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

1.21.11 26.1 26.1.1 26.1.2

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