Star

v3.0 Beta 1

by ThatStella7922 on Jul 5, 2025

This is a beta version of Star.

It is not finished and has bugs, some of which I am aware of and have listed below.

Ears will crash the game if you have implemented Ears' chest feature onto your Minecraft skin and you wear an Elytra
- Ears does not have a 1.21.7 release yet, it is included as PoC, do not send issue reports to the developer over this.
Blåhaj of Undying always has the "holding blahaj" arms, even when you are not actually holding one. The shark itself, and the colored variants work fine however.
- Blåhaj of Undying does not have a 1.21.7 release. It is included as PoC, do not send issue reports to the developer over this.
Chunks Fade In is intended to be in this version, and it works at this time but it causes the majority of shaders to fail to load since it requires them to provide a shader for the chunk fade object. Investigating a solution.
- Chunks Fade In also does not have a 1.21.7 release yet. It's included as PoC, do not send issue reports to the developer at this time.
Client Tweaks erroneously recognizes volume mouse buttons as 'hide offhand item' even when there's no key bound to it in Minecraft's options. Investigating a solution.
Probably more that I'm not aware of.

I plan to release Star 3.0 once I can get these fixed. Ideally, I also want to wait for ModernFix and Continuity to be ported to 1.21.7.

Regular release notes

This major update to Star includes the following features:

Update MC to Minecraft 1.21.7
Update all included optimization mods.
Remove some unneeded mods, reduce startup time
Slightly reduce modpack size, again

Mods unavailable/removed with the move to 1.21.7:

FabricSkyBoxes
EatingAnimation
Just Enough Items
Animatica
DynamicFPS
Enhanced Block Entities
Enhanced Model Features
Enhanced Texture Features
AuthMe
Memory Leak Fix
FerriteCore
ModernFix

This list is here for people who want to know every little detail. The removal of these mods doesn't really affect experience compared to Star v2.2.

Star 1.21 v2.1

by ThatStella7922 on Feb 19, 2025

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This minor update to Star includes the following features:

Update all included optimization mods
Performance improvements specifically with Intel GPUs, thanks to improvements in Sodium
Better support dual-GPU laptops with NVIDIA GPUs thanks to improvements in Sodium
FRAPI support thanks to Sodium
Many more improvements in Sodium in mod compatibility and bug fixes
Remove some unneeded mods, reduce startup time

The mods that were removed are:

BetterF3
Debugify
EntityCulling

These mods were removed from Star's base modlist due their improvements and benefits being implemented into other mods within Star.

Windows ARM64 note

This release should be compatible with Windows ARM64 but I have not tested yet. If you encounter issues with Star 2.1 on ARM64 Windows, please contact me!

Star 1.20.1 v1.2 LTS

by ThatStella7922 on Oct 18, 2024

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Star v1.2 is a minor maintenance/LTS update for users of Star v1.1 who need Minecraft 1.20.1. All included mods are updated and Fabric Loader itself is updated as well.

ARM64 Windows note

This version of Star will crash on ARM64 Windows computers using a translation layer to render OpenGL due to a Sodium quirk.
- Specifically, the crash is seen on Windows ARM64 computers that need "OpenCL, OpenGL and Vulkan Compatibility Pack". This should not include Snapdragon X Plus/Elite computers, or VMs with OpenGL support like VMWare Fusion.
- If you are using an affected system, please stay on Star v1.1 or update to v2.x.

All of the other mods that Star includes have been updated as well to keep providing a nice experience.

Star 1.21 v2.0

by ThatStella7922 on Aug 14, 2024

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October 17th, 2024 Update: The description for Star v2.0 is available at this page, in case you need it after the description has been updated.

This major update to Star includes the following features:

Update MC to Minecraft 1.21, adds all the new 1.21 features
Update all included optimization mods.
Remove some unneeded mods, reduce startup time
Slightly reduce modpack size
Lower memory requirement (768MB minimum, 1GB+ recommended)

Some mods were removed:

Simple Voice Chat
JourneyMap
Auto Third Person

These mods were removed from Star's base modlist due to not many people actually using them.

Mods unavailable on 1.21 or removed with the move to 1.21:

Aiming Fix (Not available for 1.21)
Attribute Fix (Not available for 1.21)
Blur Fabric (No longer needed)
Borderless Mining (Not available for 1.21)
Clear Despawn (Not available for 1.21)
Exordium (Not available for 1.21)
Cosmetica (Not available for 1.21)
DashLoader (No longer needed)
Distinguished Potions (Not available for 1.21)
Jade Addons (Not available for 1.21)
LazyDFU (No longer needed)
ModDetectionPreventer (No longer needed)

This list is here for people who want to know every little detail. The removal of these mods doesn't affect the experience compared to Star's prior version, 1.20.1 v1.1.

Star 1.20.1 v1.1

by ThatStella7922 on May 3, 2024

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Aug 8, 2024 Update: The description for Star v1.1 is available at this page, in case you need it after the description has been updated.

New release of Star, here's what's changed!

Updated Fabric Loader
Updated all included mods
Corrected the size of Star's taskbar icon on Windows
Improved optimization of the included Complimentary Shaders config, achieves 5-10 more FPS on low end GPUs.
- I am seeing playable 40-50FPS framerates with shaders enabled on an i5-1235U with Iris Xe iGPU at 1080P.
Added the ResolutionControl+ mod, usable by pressing O in a world
- This allows you to tune the 3D render resolution of the game without resizing the window
- Big performance gains on devices with HiDPI screens like Microsoft Surface, Dell XPS, HP Envy
- macOS users, your game already runs at 50% 3D render resolution on Retina displays