Minecraft Indium mod: All you need to know

Minecraft's Sodium mod is indisputably one of the most popular optimization mods for the game, but it isn't perfect. For example, one of the issues that Sodium has is that it doesn't directly support the Fabric Rendering API, which is required by some Fabric mods to create advanced rendering effects. Fortunately, the Indium mod is available to bridge this gap and allow for great rendering and good performance.

Indium ensures that the mods that require the Fabric Rendering API can work as intended with the Sodium mod for Minecraft, allowing the mods to create the visual effects as planned while ensuring that the rendering changes and optimizations afforded by Sodium continue operating.

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What to know about the Indium mod for Minecraft

Indium helps support mod compatibility with the Sodium mod for Minecraft (Image via Mojang)

Compatible with the Fabric and Quilt mod loaders and intended for use with the Sodium mod for Minecraft, Indium is a supplement to Sodium that gives it the ability to work with mods that require the Fabric Rendering API to render certain visual effects. Without Indium, the effects in question may not be capable of rendering since Sodium changes the game's rendering engine significantly.

Because Sodium makes such impactful changes to the base rendering code, this can cause conflicts with how the Fabric Rendering API creates some graphical flourishes, but Indium ensures that Sodium can support the rendering API and the mods that require it while continuing to provide the fantastic performance boosts for Java Edition that Sodium is known for.

As one might expect, Indium requires the Fabric Rendering API as well as Sodium and the standard Fabric API, and all four mods must be compatible with the version of Minecraft and the Fabric mod loader that players are running. However, once that has been accomplished, the mods that require the Fabric Rendering API to create their visual effects should work as advertised alongside Sodium.

With all of these Minecraft mods combined, players in Java Edition can see incredible performance increases for their game client while also delivering great graphics and post-processing effects that are far from what the base game can accomplish.

The presence of Indium and Sodium alone can bring massive FPS boosts (Image via Syrm/YouTube)

Moreover, Indium is incredibly lightweight and should leave no noticeable mark on a player's game client performance. Even on lower-end computers, Sodium's boosts to framerates, processing load, and overall rendering effectiveness should be more than enough to mitigate any negligible performance impact that Indium might introduce so that players can enjoy their performance and graphics boosts.

All in all, if you are using the Sodium mod for Java Edition, you have nothing to lose by installing Indium as a complement to it. Even if you don't need it, it certainly doesn't hurt to have it just in case new mods are installed later on down the line.