Astatine

Astatine 1.12.2
A lightweight Minecraft mod offering performance tweaks, visual enhancements, and gameplay adjustments.

Features

Performance Tweaks

• Fast Random (Experimental)
  Optimizes random number generation for smoother gameplay. May improve performance but use with caution—untested edge cases could cause instability.
  This is a backport of Francium mod.
  
• FastLang
  Accelerates language switching by reloading only language files (no full resource reload like F3+T) and using a faster parser.
  FastLang mod implemented the first featrue,only load neccessary resources.
• Chunk Caching
  Reduces lag by intelligently caching frequently loaded chunks. Customize retention time, cleanup intervals, and cache size, see the configure file for details.

Visual Improvements

• Starfield Overhaul
  Redesigns the night sky! Adjust star count, size, randomness algorithms, and set a custom RNG seed. 
• Star Twinkling
  Adds dynamic twinkling stars using a sine-based brightness curve. Tweak frequency, amplitude, and base brightness for your ideal sky.
• Force ASCII Font
  Fixes font rendering issues that game always render text as Unicode-style if their language has non-ASCII characters.
  ForseASCIIFont mod did the same thing.Thanks!

Gameplay Adjustments

• Eating Anytime
  Bypass hunger checks to eat food anytime you want. Configurable for creative mode or just remove the checks completely.
• World Time Scaling
  Slow down the day-night cycle by updating world time every N ticks.
• Item Stack Merging
  Merge stacks beyond stack limits (e.g., 1024 cobblestones) to reduce ground item lag.This would not affect the actual stack limit!
• Rendering Skip
  Boost FPS by ignoring distant entities/tile entities beyond a set render distance.
  A backport of Out Of Sight mod.
• Projectile Hiding
  Reduce visual clutter by hiding newly thrown projectiles (arrows, eggs, etc.) until they’ve existed for a configurable time.

Configuration

• File: config/astatine.properties (generated automatically with comments).
• Warning: Configs load once at startup—no in-game reloading. A planned migration to a dynamic system (ConfigAnyTime) will add real-time editing.

Planned Features

To be actual implemented would be a far time.

• Rework rain/snow effects for better performance or aesthetics.
• Migrate current configuration system to the ConfigAnyTime Mod which support runtime configuration modifying and visual config screen.Incompatible with current configuration file syntax.

These features are in development/under consideration.

• Stats System Removal
  Completely remove player statistics tracking.Potentially breaks advancements!
• Smart Chunk Saving
  Save only chunks with high inhabitTime (player activity). Villages will be generated in new structures every times(even on same seed).Regenerating a chunk within the scope of a village will reveal this issue, causing structural chaos (conflicts between saved chunks and unsaved structures).

Misc Optimizations
Replace other unimportant things (e.g., HashSet<Long> → LongOpenHashSet,a faster data collection) for memory/performance gains. Toggle via miscOptimization options.