Entity Collision Optimization

Entity Collision Optimization

Less time searching for entities. Less overhead in crowded areas.

Entity Collision Optimization (ECOpt) optimizes entity collision checks, pushing queries, and nearby entity lookups. It targets workloads such as crowded mob farms and large piles of dropped items, where repeated queries can become expensive.

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge · No configuration required · MIT license

What does it optimize?

• Collision and pushing queries: Maintains candidate lists as entities enter and leave sections, reducing repeated filtering.
• Nearby entity lookups: Uses spatial indexing for repeated small-area queries to reduce the number of entities scanned.
• Block-state reads: Caches block states to reduce repeated lookups during collision processing.
• Collision checks and vertical movement: Uses early exits and fast paths to skip unnecessary work.

All optimizations are enabled automatically after installation.

Performance

The following results come from the project’s existing stress tests. Lower time is better. These measurements describe the tested workloads, rather than FPS or an expected speedup for every world.

Crowded mobs: 4,000 pigs

Pigs were placed in a 3 × 3 enclosure, with normal AI and gravity enabled and entity cramming damage disabled.

ECOpt alone reduced the reported workload time from 1,132 ms to 650 ms, a 42.6% reduction. Adding ECOpt to the tested Accelerated Recoiling + Lithium setup reduced it from 70 ms to 54 ms, a further 22.9% reduction.

Dropped items: 4,000 stationary entities

This test used 4,000 stationary dropped items, an extreme entity-query workload.

ECOpt alone reduced the reported workload time from 378 ms to 7 ms, a 98.1% reduction in this test. Lithium + ECOpt recorded the lowest time at 5 ms.

Full results

The full charts use linear axes starting at zero. The detail panels expand the smaller timings for readability and use separate, labeled scales.

Using ECOpt with other optimizations

The project’s tests include Lithium and Accelerated Recoiling, both individually and in combination with ECOpt. Their improvements overlap in some areas and complement each other in others, so performance gains do not simply add together.

In the crowded-pig test, the three-mod combination recorded the lowest time. In the stationary-item test, Lithium + ECOpt recorded the lowest time. Choose a combination based on your workload; results from these tested combinations do not establish compatibility with every version or modpack.

Known limitations

The spatial query index changes the order in which entities are returned. Large teleports within the same tick can also exceed the index’s movement allowance and may cause a query to miss an entity once. Keep these limitations in mind when testing modpacks with unusual entity movement or query behavior.