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Podium

A tiny mod that disables Sodium's PojavLauncher check.

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Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21.x
1.20.1–1.20.6

Platforms

Supported environments

Client-side
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Creators

AndreasMelone_
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Details

Licensed MIT
Published 3 months ago
Updated 2 days ago

Podium

Pojav + Sodium = Podium

A tiny Mixin mod that disables Sodium's PojavLauncher (and AAMC Amethyst) check. Requires Sodium to run. if (isUsingPojavLauncher()) throw new RuntimeException("It appears that you are using PojavLauncher, which is not supported when " + "using Sodium. Please check your mods list.")

Disclaimer

This doesn’t magically make Sodium work on all devices or renderers. You’re still on your own when it comes to compatibility issues.

Requirements

Installation

  1. Download the latest release of Podium from Modrinth or Curseforge.
  2. Make sure you have the Fabric Loader installed on your PojavLauncher instance.
  3. Put the podium-1.1.0.jar into your mods folder alongside Sodium.
  4. Use a supported renderer like LTW or MobileGlues.
  5. Launch the game. If everything works, Sodium will no longer crash due to the Pojav check.

What's the deal with Sodium and PojavLauncher?

Sodium replaces Minecraft’s rendering engine with something far more efficient, but that comes at a cost. PojavLauncher is known to struggle with mods that mess with rendering in non-standard ways which is exactly what Sodium does.

These incompatibilities often led to crashes or visual glitches when running Sodium on Pojav. As a result, people (mostly kids) flooded the Sodium support channels asking for help with issues that weren’t actually Sodium’s fault. This got annoying quickly, so the Sodium team added a launcher check.

Originally, it was just a warning. As of Sodium 0.6.13 (or 0.5.13 on 1.20.1), it crashes the game.

JellySquid, the author of Sodium, has stated that the check for PojavLauncher will remain in the mod.

So why does this mod exist?

Good question.

Yes, Sodium and Pojav have been historically incompatible, but that’s changing. Pojav relies on something called renderers, which act as a translation/compatibility layer between the game’s graphics code and mobile hardware. Old renderers were notoriously bad: either super slow or completely broken with anything beyond vanilla Minecraft.

But now we have MobileGlues and LTW, two newer renderers that massively improve both compatibility and performance:

  • MobileGlues: Developed by Swung0x48 and a few others, offers solid compatibility and decent performance.
  • LTW: Developed by Artdell, amazing performance and great compatibility with Sodium.

Thanks to these, running Sodium on PojavLauncher is no longer guaranteed to cause crashes and visual glitches. Podium simply removes the crash mechanism.

License

MIT. Do whatever you want.