Star

Over 800 FPS

Fabulously Optimized

700+ FPS

_{These figures were taken by joining into the same world, waiting a bit, then taking a screenshot. Computer had the same background apps the whole time. Default settings on both modpacks shown. Tests were run on a MacBook Pro 2021 16" with M1 Max and game was run at 1708x960 resolution.}

Star with shaders hitting nearly 30fps at 1920x1080 resolution, running on an Intel UHD Graphics 770.

Launch speed

Star can start up faster than other modpacks thanks to resource caching, and it also loads into worlds faster. This ensures that you're not left waiting for the game to catch up while still giving you the freedom to use even the fanciest of resource packs.

In-game HUD

Star adds a few different things to your game HUD, all intended to improve your gameplay.

It adds some informational elements on the top left like coordinates, framerate, your speed, the current biome, in-game world time, ping and server TPS.

On the middle left you get a minimal HUD with a display for armor and held-item durability. Hopefully you can repair your armor before it breaks!

On the top middle you get:

• Information about what you are looking at
  • Entity information (health, name, mob-specific stats)
  • Block information

Finally, on the bottom middle and right you can see your saturation in your hunger bar and also a clock showing real-life time so you don't lose track of time.

Other game screens

Star has some nice touches for when you're crafting, cooking, enchanting, or even when the game is just paused. Along with the tasteful background blur, Star adds JustEnoughItems so you can easily search for items, find crafting recipes, lookup brewing ingredients and more, all without having to leave your game.

In-game

• Adds satisfying camera movement for strafing, turning, jumping, falling, flying, and more, with Camera Overhaul
• Adds dynamic lights, so you can put things like torches in your offhand to light the way
• Adds a mod where items you pick up are marked in your hotbar and inventory with a little star until you do something with the items
• Adds tooltips to Shulker boxes so you can see what's inside (with Shulker Box Tooltips)
• Adds tasteful extra particles (with Visuality)
• Adds wavy capes (with WaveyCapes)
• Adds a zoom function similar to Optifine (with OK Boomer)

Multiplayer

When you're playing with others, Star adds an extra level of polish.

Player skins are brought to life with 3D Skin Layers and support additional customization via Ears and Cosmetica!

No server hosting? No problem! Just open the Open To LAN screen, and you can forward the game port with one click, thanks to UPnP!

Once your friends join, chat messages will have player heads displayed next to them so you know who is who, at a glance.

More

In addition to making your gaming experience better, Star also does the following:

• Fixes a number of bugs in the game thanks to the Debugify mods
• Speeds up rendering of many parts of Minecraft with ImmediatelyFast
• Keeps a small memory profile, which lets me give Star its 768MB memory allocation requirement
• Adds autocomplete for NBT tags when writing commands in chat and in command blocks
• Allows you to change the 3D render resolution of Minecraft at any time in-game by pressing O, thanks to the ResolutionControl 3 mod
• Adds tons of small but nice changes that I'm sure you'll notice

and much more for you to find... _{(or you can check the mods list here in Modrinth)}

OpenGL

Star includes the Sodium mod, so a modern graphics card supporting OpenGL 4.6 is required. Older cards without OpenGL 4.6 may not work properly and are unsupported for playing Star. If you're on macOS, please read the macOS section below.

If you're having trouble figuring out what OpenGL you have, check out this part of Sodium's description:

Most graphics cards released in the past 12 years are compatible. This includes the following hardware:

Intel HD Graphics 500 Series (Skylake) or newer
Nvidia GeForce 400 Series (Fermi) or newer
AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series (GCN 1) or newer

RAM

You'll need a minimum of 768MB RAM allocated to play using Star, and 1GB or more is recommended for the best experience.

VR

Star doesn't support VR yet as I'm still working out how to get the best performance with different VR setups, potentially including QuestCraft.

Please check back at a later date.

macOS

OpenGL on macOS is not the best and it doesn't meet Sodium's OpenGL 4.6 requirement, but Star has been tested and works well on all Macs from 2018 and later. It's even better on Macs that have Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3 chip).