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Optifine Downloads
OptiFine is an optimization mod for Minecraft. With full support for HD textures, as well as many configuration options, Minecraft will run faster and look better.
Download links updated on: 2024-12-23
- Download Optifine for version 1.15.2
Optifine for 1.19
Optifine for 1.18
Optifine for 1.16
Optifine for 1.15
Optifine for 1.14
Optifine for 1.13
Optifine for 1.12
Optifine for 1.9
What is Optifine?
A Minecraft optimization mod, OptiFine enhances the performance and looks of Minecraft by supporting HD textures and giving users many options for customizing. The official OptiFine description can be found on the Minecraft Forums.
So basically, it is a mod that’ll smoothen out your gameplay, increase your FPS, and make sure that there are no lag spikes when you’re playing; it will also implement other techniques that enable a better gameplay experience for the player. Apart from being an optimizing mod, the mod also comes with many great features that have nothing to do with optimizing the game, like the zoom feature. This feature has been around for years, and many people think it is a part of the vanilla game; that shows you how popular the Optifine mod is. The Optifine mod also has a separate option for introducing shaders into the game. It basically turns your Minecraft into a more realistic version of the game for those who don't know what shaders are. It doesn't mess with the texture pack or look of the game, all the default textures remain the same, and the shaders only add a natural sun to the game. So there are shadows from trees, you and your builds as well. The best part about the shaders is that they make the sunsets and sunrises look gorgeous, especially with the new mountains added in a recent update. Optifine also gives the player many different options that they can tinker with to increase the game's performance even more. For example, there is this one setting which, if turned on, improves performance by turning off ceratin animations at certain times. So basically, if you're looking at a campfire, it’ll act naturally and emit particles. Still, as soon as you turn around, the animation stops. This is a pretty handy feature to have. The mod was first released during the 1.4 betas. It was made specifically to push back the fog during the early days of Minecraft. Eventually, the mod got famous, and many players started using it. Hence, the developers kept adding new features, and one of the most famous ones was increasing the game's performance. The difference between when you’re playing with Optifine and when you’re not playing with it is mind-blowing; it makes you wonder why don’t the folks at Mojang don't just buy out the mod and add it to the vanilla game. Almost every youtuber I watch has this mod installed; it’s just that good.
How to download Optifine?
Downloading optifine is very easy nowadays. You have two options when isntalling optifine, you can extract at as its own installation/profile, which means when you launch Minecraft all you have to do is use the Optifine version. Or you can use Optifine with any other mod launcher such as Forge. Using Optifine with a mod launcher means you have to put the Optifine jar inside the mods folder in Minecraft. Below, are the specific steps to download optifine.
- Decide which version you want to play on
- Click on the "Download" button above next to the version
- Once you download the jar, double click on it
- Extract optifine or move the jar to the Mods folder
- Restart your Minecraft launcher and choose Optifine profile
- Click on "Play"
- There you go! You now have optifine
How to use Optifine?
Once you’ve installed the mod successfully, you’ll get a confirmation that will look something like this. If it does, you’re ready to open your game with the mod. To do so you’ll have to close your Minecraft launcher if it were running in the background first as it won’t have loaded the mod just yet. Then launch the Minecraft launcher, and on the button left-hand side, you’ll see that the Optifine mod has already been loaded by the launcher for you without you having to do anything. MOts of the players will see it tis way, but if you don’t see it, there's no need to panic, simply go ahead and manually select the mod from the options. Then just launch the game as you normally would and you’ll have successfully launched the game with Optifine installed in it. Now go to the Minecraft settings where you’ll see a whole new array of options that have been added to the game. These options allow you to customize literally every aspect of the game, from turning the particles off to turning off the skies, the mod really lets you do anything you can think of when it comes to customization.
Why is optifine popular?
Many mods have been developed over the years to improve Minecraft's performance. The most comprehensive mod in this category is OptiFine, which significantly improves the performance of Minecraft. There are a large number of Minecraft players who use OptiFine, which is a stable mod. In spite of the fact that OptiFine is not an official Mojang mod, it has enabled players to play the game on low-end PCs thanks to its stability. It comes with a ton of customization, allowing you to choose what graphics features you want to keep or remove to improve your performance.
What is in Optifine?
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FPS boost
- doubling the FPS is common
- decreases lag spikes and smooths gameplay
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Support for HD Textures
- HD textures and HD fonts (MCPatcher not needed)
- custom terrain and item textures
- animated terrain and item textures
- custom HD Font character widths
- custom colors
- custom block color palettes
- custom lighting
- unlimited texture size
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Support for Shaders
- based on the Shaders Mod by Karyonix
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Dynamic Lights
- allows handheld and dropped light emitting items to illuminate the objects around them
- similar, but not related to the Dynamic Lights -
Variable Render Distance
- from Tiny to Extreme (2 x Far) in 16m steps
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Configurable Smooth Lighting
- from 1% - smooth lighting without shadows
- to 100% - smooth lighting with full shadows
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Performance: VSync
Synchronizes framerate with monitor refresh rate to remove split frames and smooth gameplay
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Smart Advanced OpenGL
- more efficient, less artifacts
- Fast - faster, some artifacts still visible
- Fancy - slower, avoids visual artifacts
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Fog control
- Fog: Fancy, Fast, OFF
- Fog start: Near, Far
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Mipmaps
- Visual effect which makes distant objects look better by smoothing the texture details
- Mipmap level - OFF, 1, 2, 3, Max
- Mipmap type - Nearest, Linear
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Anisotropic Filtering
- Restores details in mipmapped textures
- AF level - OFF, 2, 4, 8, 16 (depends on hardware support)
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Antialiasing
- Smooths jagged lines and sharp color transitions
- AA level - OFF, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 (depends on hardware support)
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Better Grass
Fixes grass blocks side texture to match surrounding grass terrain
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Better Snow
Fixes transparent blocks textures to match surrounding snow terrain
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Clear Water
Clear, transparent water with good visibility underwater
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Random Mobs
Use random mob textures if available in the texture pack
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Connected Textures
Connects textures for glass, glass panes, sandstone and bookshelf blocks which are next to each other.
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Natural Textures
Removes the gridlike pattern created by repeating blocks of the same type.
Uses rotated and flipped variants of the base block texture.
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FPS control
- Smooth FPS - stabilizes FPS by flushing the graphics driver buffers - Smooth Input - fixes stuck keys, slow input and sound lag by setting correct thread priorities
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Chunk Loading Control
- Load Far - loads the world chunks at distance Far, allows fast render distance switching
- Preloaded Chunks - defines an area in which no new chunks will be loaded
- Chunk Updates per Frame - allows for faster world loading
- Dynamic Updates - loads more chunks per frame when the player is standing still
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Configurable Details
- Clouds - Default, Fast, Fancy
- Cloud Height - from 0% to 100%
- Trees - Default, Fast, Fancy
- Grass - Default, Fast, Fancy
- Water - Default, Fast, Fancy
- Rain and Snow - Default, Fast, Fancy
- Sky - ON, OFF
- Stars - ON, OFF
- Sun & Moon - ON, OFF
- Depth Fog - ON, OFF
- Weather - ON, OFF
- Swamp Colors - ON, OFF
- Smooth Biomes - ON, OFF
- Custom Fonts - ON, OFF
- Custom Colors - ON, OFF
- Show Capes - ON, OFF (supports HD capes)
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Configurable animations
- Water Animated - OFF, Dynamic, ON
- Lava Animated - OFF, Dynamic, ON
- Fire Animated - OFF, ON
- Portal Animated - OFF, ON
- Redstone Animated - OFF, ON
- Explosion Animated - OFF, ON
- Flame Animated - OFF, ON
- Smoke Animated - OFF, ON
- Void Particles - OFF, ON
- Water Particles - OFF, ON
- Rain Splash - OFF, ON
- Portal Particles - OFF, ON
- Dripping Water/Lava - OFF, ON
- Terrain Animated - OFF, ON
- Items Animated - OFF, ON
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Fast Texturepack Switching
Switch the current Texturepack without leaving the world
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Fullscreen Resolution
Configurable fullscreen resolution
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Debug
- Fast Debug Info - removes lagometer from debug screen
- Debug Profiler - removes profiler from debug screen
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Time Control
Default, Day Only or Night Only - works in only in Creative mode
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Autosave
- Configurable Autosave interval
- A fix for the famous Lag Spike of Death
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