More Culling

More Culling is a client-side Minecraft Java mod from creator FX that fixes several places where vanilla renders more than the player can actually see. It runs on Fabric, Quilt, and NeoForge, needs Cloth Config API to work, and installs on the client only since it changes nothing about world data or server logic.

What More Culling changes in Minecraft

Culling means skipping the render of anything the player cannot see, and vanilla does this job poorly in a few specific spots. More Culling targets four of them directly. It tightens block face culling so quads facing fully hidden neighbors stop drawing, something vanilla leaves surprisingly incomplete. It culls maps rendered inside item frames when a block blocks the frame from view, since vanilla draws that map regardless. It optimizes item frames themselves, a vanilla entity known for erratic frame times when many are placed together. It adds frustum culling to beacon beams, so a beam behind the camera or outside the view stops costing render time.

How More Culling differs from Entity Culling

Players comparing More Culling against Entity Culling are comparing two mods with different authors and different jobs, not two versions of the same idea. Entity Culling, from creator tr7zw, runs an async line-of-sight check on every entity and block entity and skips rendering (and ticking, for whitelisted types) anything a wall or terrain fully hides from the camera. More Culling has no equivalent per-entity occlusion check. Instead it fixes narrower, separate over-rendering behavior: incomplete vanilla block face culling, item frame maps drawn behind blocks, item frame lag, and beacon beams rendered outside the view frustum. The two do not compete for the same fix, so running both is normal rather than redundant.

Installation

1. 1.Install Fabric Loader, Quilt Loader, or NeoForge for your Minecraft version.
2. 2.Download and install Cloth Config API for the same loader and version; More Culling will not load without it.
3. 3.Download the matching .jar from the official Modrinth page and drop it into your mods folder.
4. 4.Launch the game. There is no server-side install or extra setup needed.

Loader support and current versions

FX keeps more than one More Culling branch alive at once, which makes the version list look busier than a typical mod. Checked against Modrinth's version history, the current picture is:

• Fabric, Quilt, and NeoForge all reach 26.2 as of build 1.8.1, published August 2, 2026.
• A separate long-running branch still gets updates for 1.21 and 1.21.1; its newest build, 1.0.10, published September 7, 2026, one day before this page, but it targets an older Minecraft version than the 26.2 branch.
• A third branch stayed on 1.20.1 for Fabric only, last updated August 2026.
• There is no Forge build. Forge players do not get any of these fixes from this mod.