Emberbium

Emberbium is a fork of Embeddium, the Forge port of Sodium. This fork performs better, fixes bugs and polishes the existing visual features of the original mod.

Forge 1.20.1  |  Client only  |  Replaces Embeddium

Features

• The block-face slices of a chunk section are drawn as one command.
• Chunk meshes put the faces you can see first, so one draw covers them!
• With a shader pack, opaque terrain is drawn near to far in distance bands, so the GPU skips more hidden pixels.

• Instead of vertex, this mod does radix sort from 256 quads. Works same but 3 to 7 times faster.
• Less garbage on every rebuild

• One failed chunk build no longer strands every finished build behind it, and leaving a world frees GPU and off-heap memory that used to leak.
• GlFence.sync now waits on the CPU, as it should have..!!

• Registers as embeddium
• Your existing Embeddium config is picked up as it is as well!

• Hover, selection, tick boxes, sliders, scrolling and tabs ease instead of snapping. Options added by addons animate too.

Benchmark

Measured in game at the same spot in a 470-mod pack, switching the change on and off every second so both sides see the same frames. RX 9070 XT, 3440×1440, render distance 12.

Good to know

• Install: remove Embeddium, add Emberbium. Never run both.
• Experimental: Advanced > Use Modern GL Paths is off by default, turns itself off under shader packs, and has not been benchmarked yet.