The Distant Horizons mod is changing Minecraft
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Blow away Minecraft's render distance limits with the NEW Distant Horizons mod! Join me as I REACT to this game-changing mod and explore its potential to revolutionize Minecraft. We'll dive into a simple setup guide, experiment with the settings, and see how Distant Horizons might impact Minecraft forever!
Timestamps:
0:47 - LOD's explained
1:36 - Setup Process
3:33 - Experimentation
PC specs: i5 12600K & RTX 3080
shaders shown in video: Bliss shaders
Iris project official discord invite link: (update: every link I share doesn't work so just look up the server, you can find it)
Here's another good video on this subject by @flowstatevideo be sure to check it out!
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Mojang should just hire some of this modders at this point, this guys are making Minecraft look like an actually actively updated game
They have hired some modder like gnembon but some sources say that there is too much bureaucracy and random hoops and garbage to go through to add something or change anything.
The problem is that these modders work in Java
Only java
Many of the things we see, like shaders and LODs are not doable on bedrock, bedrock uses a custom, well, everything written in C++, it's why it's so fucking buggy, anything added to bedrock needs to be programmed individually in C++
Mojang won't add something unless it's doable on bedrock, last time they did that was the 1.9 combat update and that was controversial
@@flamingscar5263i'd think adding lods in c++ would actually be much easier than java
With how little they update the game compared to what modders can do in Java, I'm not worried if Mojang ever decides to ditch Java and focus on the Bedrock monetization. The community will probably easily add the Bedrock updates to Java and better things like these mods
@@flamingscar5263tbf, bedrock have a way better performance and less of a unoptimized mess Java is
This is legitimetly how Minecraft should look like by default. It looks so natural and LODs are a no brainer for any open world game
Yea but the game is old and game makers dont like changing their style
Bro if that was Minecraft I wouldn't even play it. To play this Minecraft you need rtx 4090 to have it 60 FPS let alone integrated graphics on intel Pentium gold 4415U with 2.30 GHz.
And the game is good as is because shaders just make Minecraft.. just not Minecraft.
There can only be one Robert Downey Jr. pfp and it will be me.
@@MrGreenRecliner last one standing may win
Once Distant Horizons 2.0 comes out officially I will never play without it. I've been playing with Distant Horizons shaders for a couple of days and it just restored the love of Minecraft in me.
Imagine using it on a custom map you made with a city, damn
Why imagine? I've tried out several and as you can guess it's absolutely bonkers.
I already cannot imagine playing without it. I'm playing in VR with the create mod and some others, and now I've played around 150 hours in just that, triple more time I spent in other VR games.
Bless your heart
For me, this is the biggest update of minecraft that turn this game to another level. It will definitely made players feel fun and enjoy to this game again. I came back to play this game with these mods install, and I've fallen in love with this game just like how I feel when I was 7
The biggest update of minecraft that will made players enjoy again, change minecraft forever, and it didn't come from the developer.
I recommend using another mod called "chunky" alongside with DH. It essentially preloads all of your chunks (within a certain radius, most set it to 6000) making distant horizons load all of the chunks faster, which also give you more performance as a plus.
How does it work? If you know. Curious
And world size about 999 Gb
@@_Zemlya 6000x6000 map is something around 1-3 Gb file and that is plenty of space to play for singleplayer (if you don't use nether for travel) so its not so bad if you don't start to load bigger numbers, which just doubles the file size every few thousands of blocks.
You preload the chunks, i did it for our server that i play with friends. I preloaded on my pc on singleplayer about 6000 blocks in a square radius from our spawn. The issue is that the world save file doesnt weigh that much, but the LODS weigh like 7GB for this amount of chunks. So it is very bulky. But with this method if you have acess to the seed or the map. You can use this on server with friends very effectivly.
Can someone please explain to me how you combine mods with distant horizons? Im very new to modding so all the file shit confuses me but i have two separate modded versions of minecraft, one with iris distant horizons, and forge. I want to use my forge mods with distant horizons but i am unsure how
Just an FYI, but it seems that you never actually went above 200/300 chunks rendered.
Distant Horizons has to load in all these chunks, process them and then display them.
And because your CPU Load setting (just 2 under Render Distance Input) was set "Low Impact" it never actually had the chance to load them in fast enough to really see it. (You can see chunks popping up in the distance to see the actual speed). For presentation purposes, I'd recommend setting it to Aggressive, as it takes quite a while to load them in normally. You can look around and actually see the chunks loading in the background.
The only chunks you really saw were the ones that were already preloaded before, so increasing the distance made little difference.
That's also why you saw that some chunks were missing. And quitting the world and re-entering it just causes the mod to load the already cached world data.
To add to this, running a chunk generation mod like chunky overnight to generate 5000-10000 blocks radius will probably be enough almost for a whole playthrough. Unless exploring over 10000 blocks away is a thing you usually do that is.
i have an intel core i914900k yet i cant set it to the max settings, it just crashes right away
@@sckiivmaybe try limiting your cpu in bios or getting a better cooler
If you wait enough you can tell the difference with higher radii
@@sckiivI have an 11700f and can set it to max no problem
It’s insane to me that Minecraft doesn’t natively support LOD. Its a no brainer
You gotta work on those DLC's and spin off projects, you know. Players will fix the base game themselves.
@@rznfoll338 and you gotta work all year for those april fools updates
distant horizons or bobby actual allows for real exploration, unlike vanilla where u look at a fog border and hope for the best.
it really looks like an open-world game now, when i see this, my reaction was "Minecraft has always been this beautiful?"
I think they should add a lod sysrem into the base game, if q small dev team of passoniate modders for free can do this, imagine what tons of actual paid employees could do
@@sixty5notch796 maybe no, the mod makers don’t have time pressure while the devs have to update regularly, they don’t have time for that thing
Sorry they don't have time for making the game better@@sixty5notch796
@@minhtranquoc8122 Well, they do have the resources to do something similar to this, and personally I don't see any other feature they could add that would be more impactful than something like an LOD slider.
it just gives such a nice peace of mind that u can just pillar up & figure out where you wanna go & what you wanna do 1st
Holy moly....oh, hey, my computer is on fi... *distant explosion*
It won’t.
yea it's pretty omptimized for low end pcs
Actually no
Distant horizons uses what's called LODs, level of detail
The farther a chunk, the less of the chunk is rendered and at less detail
@@Ace_IsG0nenot with shaders rllt
@@wordlessiactually even with the shaders it can be used and run well so its still really optimized, unless your computer is super cheap then thats just a you problem 🤷♂️
playing with custom terrain on a survival world with friends WITH distant horizons with a single-handedly amazing experience
hi
That sounds like such a great experience!!! Need to try it when I have grown up!
I remember seeing ilmango play with Distant Horizons in his peaceful skyblock world. He could build farms kilometers away and still be able to see those farms back at spawn. Distant Horizons really is incredible. Glad to see it get more reach.
8:02 it looks the same because it would take a *VERY* long time for Distant Horizons to generate 8000000 chunks (4000x4000)
16,000,000
It’s interesting you wrote the equation but not the correct answer
minecraft takes two years to add a single mob and a couple new blocks and calls it a “major update”
They just need to hire these people already
They also do a bunch of stuff in the background of that game and they also have to make it balanced. So it is not as bad as you portrayed it.
@@philippbrogli779 "Balanced" as if the Recovery Compass isn't in one of the dumbest places for it to be in as a reward.
I'm an avid Bethesda game player and modder, my mind was blown until you said LOD's, and then I was like oh well yeah duh. It's such an archaic of long distance rendering but it almost always proves to be better than full rendering.
Minecraft community is amazing, what were microsoft devs doing with the game this whole time? there's a guy that made this incredible mod, and at the same time, Mojang with F**ing Microsoft is tryint to release some wolf skins for 1.20.5 )? doesn't make any sense to me, and I'm saying this from a POV of a Java Software Engineer.
Yeah the fact that people are more excited for this mod than the actual Minecraft update should say something to the Mojang devs.
And the fact that most of the things they are adding to the game are just a copy/paste of mods that people have made (just re-textured)
For example: auto crafter
The gaps in the world are from you leaving the world and interrupting the chunk loading task. It's worth checking the Impact setting in the menu to the highest setting, sit at 5fps for like 2 minutes, then set it back to minimal when working with farther render distance. I currently play on a world at 2048 distance with no issues. You can also hit F3 to see the running tasks.
just 890 views?
YOU DESERVE SO MUCH MORE 😭
Look again
I do, too :D
My boy, your video quality, commentary, storytelling, music, and emotions are just over the top! Your videos are absolutely wonderful.
I wish Mojang would add something like this to Vanilla
Mojang should have done this…
That’s exactly what I was thinking 😮💀
No.. i wouldn't even play it at this point, the whole point of Minecraft would be gone. If you like this, great, install the shader, but Minecraft by default should stay as it is right now
I also think it once but move spawning chunks farms everything for broken up, they can introduce it as extra features maybe but not be default.
They did in bedrock, it goes up to 96 chunks, and can be altered further in the files
@@t.r.inightelaborate?
1) updating the settings can take a while, especially when generating as more CPU time is dedicated to generating rather than updating the terrain with new settings.
2) the gaps are result of interrupted generation, they only appear in the LOD areas (ie if you visit them they will still be there) the 2.0.2 version of the mod did not save correctly which areas are actually generated.
3) generation is slow in general, because Minecraft chunk generation is slow, generating 256 chunks RD can take a hour or two.
4) most limits in settings are arbitrary, there is debug option to bypass it
5) DH does not like when you constantly turn shader on and off
I believe this is truly something I think Mojang should actually implement into the base game as it speaks to the purpose of the game in making it feel huge and expansive as well as the feeling of filling the space with your builds
The inner nerd in me screamed every time i saw you set a value to 500 instead of 512 or any another power of 2
Haha
this mod combined with the bliss shader revived my love for minecraft, genuinely. i was playing it with a friend a few days ago, we made our own vanilla improved modpack and man.. the game is just so beautiful now. we can use landmarks (like tall mountains, for example) to find our way back home, it is just so cool
Did you actually generate a large enough world to use those high render distances? DH needs to generate the LOD chunks as well as the actual chunks so those insanely high render distances will take absurd amounts of time to generate.
It's a lot faster than you'd think, and theres settings for how much cpu is dedicated to chunk loading. You can put it on "I paid for the whole CPU" and run at 5fps while it loads tens of thousands of chunks then pop it back down once the world is loaded.
It doesn't generate the actual chunks. It's very quick.
@@1GAMEDOG1 There is a toggle to turn OFF chunk generation but it is On by default.
@@Bomb_and_Kou it generates it's own LoD chunks, completely separate to Minecraft's actual chunks being generated.
The chunk generation is quick because it's much simpler than actual chunk generation.
Oh, it's still in development
I guess I'll just wait for the official release. Can't wait to play it on my potato!
Chunks not loading could be you running out of available VRAM or it's just that the auto generator function missed a chunk and you now have to go over and actually generate them yourself.
I noticed that to update the LODS you have to reload the chunks in the area. While we were building a castle on our world, I would often go into spectator mode and fly away to look at the castle from a distance. It wouldn't have the new additions rendered until I reentered the area and reloaded those chunks, then I could fly away again and see the new LODS.
ALSO; If you get that weird graphical ghosting bug from disabling or reenabling shaders, just tap R and it'll reload the shader. That fixes it.
Hey my chunks go pretty far (100-150 chunks) but not as much as it should even if i set my distance to 400+. I have 4060 ti + r5 5600 and 16 gb ram. I gave the permission to the game to use 10 gigs so there is no problem on the ram sides but i doubt about the 8 gb vram. Also when i run the mode with terralith and tectonic the slow loading and missing chunks go even crazier. Is there something to do with the cpu, vram or the optimization of the mode? Pls help my only hope is that DH is still in beta.
Gotta love DH, good shout on the installation tutorial, i shouldve done that
Oh hey Lunar
Minecraft should have 64 chunks by default... without lod...
Your computer would implode and the game would be unplayable
With better optimizations to rendering, yes it should.
Bedrock Edition joins the chat
-Sorry
All games use LODs and minecraft is a game that needs them
@@lilcatguy8317 Not my PC lol, my PC is the fastest you can buy besides having the most storage, (i9 14900ks, 128GB DDR5 7233mhz, RTX 4090 Strix OC)
I assume that happened to the end, because the mod stores the structure data of your world in a sqlite3 database (a local database), and with the forced changes in the settings of the shaders, the data in that database might've become corrupted. It's useful that you found this bug though, it might be useful for the modder to replicate this case and know how to fix it, maybe when turning off the shaders, clean the database or something similar.
I wonder if you would've had the same bug if you changed your location in the world a few hundreds blocks and see if the new terrain had or not the same bug.
Thank you for the video too!
Bro as goofy as the "chunks" setting looks, it also has a real charm to it. I feel like if Minecraft had always had that as a way to see distant chunks where they're kind of just averaged together, we would all be used to it and think nothing more of it.
The reason it is so cool is because 1 block = 1 meter. 1 chunk = 16m. 700chunks = 11.2 km you can only see around 5 km irl now you can see further. That means the most realistic is around 300
Just enough to see how flat the world really is am I right?😉
For anybody who is going to see this video toward the end and think the mod is a buggy mess:
First, the mod is very highly experimental in it's beta. So is the shader, and especially the Iris mod. Second, this glitch only happens if you try to disable rendering while the shaders are on. If you want to disable anything always go in the order Shaders -> Rendering
I'm sorry, but the part of the video where you try the different render distances (256, 500, 1500, 2000, 4000) is extremely misleading. The reason you weren't noticing a difference was because of 2 things:
1. The mod can't just instantly generate millions of LODs, it needs a lot of time to generate them, especially when they become very numerous after 128 chunks of render distance. You need to adjust the CPU usage to Aggressive and wait for hours, days or even WEEKS to generate enough to display the 4000 chunks render distance. That would also take up 10s or 100s of gigabytes of disk storage, as DH now stores it's LOD data as full resolution block ID
2. The shader mod adds fog that makes it difficult to see past 256 chunks during some parts of the day/night cycle in the game. This can be changed in the shader settings, of cource.
Hope this helps.
Don't you need 100 gigs of ram to render it, do you?
@@VIPTORY No...
@VIPTORY Hmm, I don't know for sure. It should be possible to test, but honestly it would take a very long time. I'd rather leave that to the developers of the mod.
@@VIPTORYon my world I use 512 chunks and I have 10gb only allocated to minecraft and it only uses like 7gb and it took about an hour to load them all but I have a mid cpu
Part of this is now outdated. Specifically the part that mentions thay it takes 100s of GB to store the lods. It now takes way less space.
Upping the actual render distance with chunks can work decently, increasing your lod distance with chunks will cause the drop in graphic quality to be spread out over further distances
There’s just videos about this left and right and right under my nose all the time! 😅
Now if only I could use Distant Horizons with shaders, Create, and Valkyrian skies, my dream of creating a steampunk utopia in Minecraft will be complete.
The chunks still need to be generated. That's why it won't show the entire world at first.
Can’t wait to have it on 1.20.4, I am building a city in this version and the mod would allow for some astounding photos
Actually i found a 1.20.4 experimental DH version and downloaded it
I don’t know if “improves performance” is what happens with these mods lol. You’re on a 3080 and are dropping below 100
I noticed that the problem with this mod is that the chunks need to be pre-loaded first. In other words, if you just spawned into a new world, the chunks that you never loaded will never show up in the distance. But if you flied/walked around the world for a bit and then returned to your spawn point, then you would see that the very distant chunks are still loaded in the background, making it look like you can see really far. It's a bit of a shame that the mod can't load the chunks that are really far in a low resolution and only increase the resolution when you get closer.
Why it cant load some chunks?
Probably some chunks was never generated, so to show them minecraft need to generete them (which it take some CPU), you can try change the setting "CPU Load" from Low Impact to higher.
been playing a singleplayer world for the first time in years, using DH, Bliss, Tectonic and terralith has made the game so much more immersive and enjoyable. ( I reccomend using chunky and noisium for performance)
i actually had an idea for a solution to the render distance near the horizon.
one could be a world curvature effect, which could just bend the unrendered land over a fake horizon maybe?
another solution would be the old minecraft fog effect,but just have it off way into the distance so it kinda softens the horizon
the world curvature effect is in BSL shaders, I used it and it looks awesome
Minecraft bedrock realms are limited to 8 chunks of render distance, you'd think paying for servers they would a least allocate you some resources. It's honestly robbery
very informative, I plan to test it and I hope it can function with Vivecraft in any capacity... 😅
after all my years of playing minecraft, it’s completely unbelievable how far this game has come
its almost like minecraft is a technical mess and mojang should actually do some work to fix the game. of course, that'll never happen. the only time they've even vaguely pestered at updating the code was a naked attempt to push microtransactions into the game.
Imagine using only fabric and not rocking a fully decked out forge modlist with the sinytra connector and a bunch of fabric mods like a true gigachad
very cool video btw lmao
What kind of evil wizardry is this?😆
That'd be sick actually
u are super underrated bro
The chunk loading is actually such a vibe, it almost turns Minecraft into a liminal game
I see alot of Distant Horizon videos now but I hear nobody talking about the mod "Bobby"? The mod has been around way longer than Distant Horizons and does almost the same but without graphical issues. If you want to generate chunks far away without needing to load them first, you can combine Nvidium + Bobby + C2ME (You need an Nvidium GPU tho), this then loads the chunks far away automatically. Bobby is pretty underrated.
Oh and also, Distant Horizons uses LODs (like mentioned in the video) but Bobby instead saves those chunks so they look the same from every render distance. Distant Horizon instead makes the chunks far away look bad in detail if you zoom in.
That's because they do completely do different things. Bobby is saving the data that the server sends and storing it so you can view it as if it were single player, DH is doing LOD allowing you to view chunks that don't actually "exist" just graphical lookalikes.
@@Finikyu Yeah, pretty much exactly what I said. Still same function at the end tho, you want to play with an incredibly high render distance.
@@KeksiGamingImagine the day when Nvidium works with Iris and DH. New AMD GPUs are getting mesh shaders so its a very real possibility.
@@gavinferguson2938 Would be amazing tho
This is some "This will be graphics in 2013!" type shit. Interesting developments.
What mod do yo use for the head bobbing?
Can't play without this mod anymore. Even 32 view distance feels tiny in comparison and halves your fps.
heads up though, this mod does work as intended and can be beautiful with out nuking your pc, but when you load it everything looks vanilla, then after about 5 minutes the first little bit loads, all in all to get the " infinite render distance " you have to let your game run and slowly load for between several hours to a couple of days.
Every day Bedrock becomes less and less appealing, now Java edition is going to have greater render distance than Bedrock with similar framerates.
Hey do you have a modlist for this video? I like the way your game was moving so I would like to know
do you know already? i really want this movement mod
nvm i found it. its called "camera overhaul"
I'm working on a video where I go through all my mods. It's been taking longer than expected cuz I have like 300+ mods
thes mod made us realised how small our world really was. we thought we had massive epic builds only to install Distant Horizons to feel like we were really just next door
Yo can you link your modlist, it looks amazing
I'm gonna make a video about it. A lot of the ones I used in here are explained in my other video (the one with the hand in the thumbnail)
Love your editing style, feels very high quality
What resource pack are you using for the UI? It looks really good
It's called Reimagined GUI dark
Another game still relevant entirely by modders. Y'all are the real MVPs
my laptop can't even handle more than 4 render distance bro
mine can barely handle 16 chunks but with distant horizons I have stable frames with 48 chunks and 12 true ones. truly a great mod
@@lord_Jofferson would that mean i'd be able to do more than 4 render distance if i used that mod?
@@Lexa2201 Yes, but the change from low quality to normal quality will be very obvious since it will be happening pretty close to you.
The mod is also a lot easier to install if you're not worried about using shaders.
@@Lexa2201 yes that is almost certain but I do recommend you set the generation mode to pregenerated chunks only to make the amount of chunks you can generate without performance loss bigger
Ill be honest, i havent played minecraft without distant horizons ever since it came out and so did the bliss shaders for it. Genuine game changer.
Edit: i also generally dont play without tectonic. Tectonic is perfect with distsnt horizons.
I liked my own comment
I kinda see this being added in to the game in a future update.
This mod REALLY shows you what minecraft is missing the most. Basic LOD.
finally got DH+Bliss to work, Thank you!!!
Very cool, I’ve always been disappointed when I turn up the render distance and it doesn’t render that far at all… especially since I have a beast rig that could render it
When you play with distant horizons once, there is no going back. It is just too good to see your endless world and your buildings very far away.
over a past 2 years minecraft is getting insanly good beating other games in my pov since I played this only for 4 years it helped me in every way possible and these are minecraft scientists that works for minecraft's good future
well I still nostalgic after not playing this game for 2 years but this really made me fulfilled thanks minecraft community
Minecraft bedrock: look what they need to mimic a fraction of my power!
It looks like something out of a cinematic Minecraft movie, and that's awesome!
the reason why your lods were loading slowly is because in the settings, ur cpu load was low impact so it was using less cpu power, if you want it to load fast you have to increase it to like aggresive. Also what you loaded was actually not 1500 chunks, it was around 256 only, 1500 takes a lot of time and performance to load, when u rejoined the world it simply boosted the first few lod chunks to load
- Mojang can't implement LOD in their game
Random one dude from internet: well, i did
This is incredible, but what I'm truly excited for in the future is nvidium getting shader/iris compatibility and running that with the Bobby mod.
did a little math and ~300 on the DH render distance should be about accurate in terms of how far you can see in real life (~3 miles in ideal conditions)
The fact that MICROSOFT, havent gotten mojang to polish and fix their fucking game is amazingly stupid.
0:11 How do you get your block breaking so clean looking!
Also great video I set up the server side DH on one of my servers and it great!
It's a lighting glitch that's recently been patched actually.
Glad to hear!
Bedrock with optimized render distance:
"Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power"
So underrated, congrats on 1k subs btw 🎉
bro having the render distance be infinite changes the feel of minecraft so much
its sad that the actual company does not push minecraft technically. A sequel with a huge render distance, atmospheric effects such as fog, rain and other weather particles, an improved tereain generation would be insane rather than adding sniffers and copper
"How do they do it?"
Me, who mods Skyrim "LODs?"
"... yup, its LODs."
Mod of the year, right here.
Complementary 5.2 has been released and now works with Iris/DH. Though I really enjoy Bliss at present.
By the way, you can only ever see 3-4 miles away irl, which conveniently is 300-400 render distance. We are literally getting into the territory where we can see as far in Minecraft as the real world.
one thing to note is that this mod isn't compatible with some mods (which would ruin the purpose of boosting fps), heck it's actually the opposite, i got like 20 fps with this mod with like only 30 mods loaded but i figured when I deleted the mod it runs noticeably faster
How this mod works is like that u need to actually visit the chunks for the mod to save them and show them later
this needs to be in the original game, microsoft either hire this guy/team or buy the code from him, we need this in the offical. same with shaders
Whoa, that's incredible!
Note: If you have a Nvidia graphics card with decent VRAM, you can do this with full detail using the mod bobby + nvidium, i normally use render distance 300 with it.
It has probably already been stated, but the smearing effect is related to CPU usage, at least for me it can't be set to "low" or "minimal". Set it to normal or balanced and it might start working for you
in the F3 menu it shows if it is currently working on rendering new stuff, also you can change how much CPU the mod uses to renders, I would put it at maximum and then wait a few minutes when the world is first created, after that you can reduce the allotted CPU power without problems.
Even the chunk lods looks good because they feel stylistic in a complementary way to mc
This mod makes me feel like a kid playing Minecraft again for the first time😭😭😭🤧🤧🤧
Even if you don't have one the Nvidia mod works really well with iris GPUs for some reason
Not enough people talk about nvidium. It’s a paper add on that doesn’t use LOD’s but instead nvidia gpu mesh magic (?) to use vram and load many more chunks at once. It allows for full detail at very far distances (1000fps at 128 chunks) but requires a decent nvidia gpu.
mojang: Lets add dog armour
modders: Lets add THE WORLD
Honestly this just shows how much Minecraft's "engine" (if you can even call it that) has aged. Adding features is more like pulling teeth.
I would honestly accept it if Mojang decided, instead of putting out the next couple of feature updates, to spend their time on an engine overhaul. The vanilla game badly needs it, the modding community even more so.
Another thing to keep in mind is that you can only see chunks that you've loaded before with this mod, so those chunks that won't load have never been loaded before.