Selective Render

Current stable version: 1.9.0.

Selective Render is a client-side Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 that renders only chosen three-dimensional block regions. It is intended for builders and PlotSquared users who want to isolate builds, hide palettes, reduce distracting geometry, and prevent filtered terrain from contributing shader shadows.

No server installation is required for manually selected regions. The mod keeps world state, network traffic, chunk loading, collision, and game logic unchanged; it changes only what the client renders and can interact with.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Fabric Loader 0.15.11 or newer
• Fabric API 0.92.2+1.20.1 or another compatible 1.20.1 build
• Sodium 0.5.8 or newer in the 0.5.x series for Minecraft 1.20.1

Iris is optional and supported. Sodium mc1.20.1-0.5.13-fabric is tested in game; 0.5.8 and 0.5.11 are compile-checked by CI.

Basic usage

/sr is the short form of /selectiverender.

/sr 1
/sr 2
/sr s NAME
/sr t NAME

The two positions are exact block corners on all three axes. Saving creates a named cuboid and immediately enables it. Multiple render regions can be enabled at once. /sr t toggles the current render group and /sr t all (or /sr t a) changes every normal preset in the current server, world, and dimension context.

/sr l
/sr r OLDNAME NEWNAME
/sr d NAME

The full command names pos1, pos2, save, toggle, list, rename, and delete remain available.

Hiding regions

/sr h NAME
/sr l h
/sr h all  # alias: /sr h a

Hide presets remove selected cuboids while leaving the rest of the world visible. They are useful for temporary block palettes, scaffolding, or unwanted structures. Player visibility and interactions can independently be set to none, inside regions, outside regions, or everywhere. Crosshair targets and outlines follow interaction visibility, including Axiom Orbit Camera and brush targeting. Player hitboxes follow player visibility; collision is unchanged.

Default keybinds are F8 for the render group, F9 for the hide group, and K to cycle all player visibility modes. Optional unassigned bindings select positions, toggle or clear temporary plots, cycle interaction and boundary modes, and open settings. Change bindings under Controls > Selective Render; existing custom bindings are preserved.

Settings are also accessible through Mod Menu when installed. Region-boundary faces cycle through normal, black, and culled; hide-region boundaries always stay normal. Conquest Reforged extension toggles are not reliably supported by black/culled mode yet. New settings default to players and interactions everywhere, normal boundary faces, and debug boxes off. Saved settings are preserved when updating. Enabled debug boxes outline every saved region, including inactive and hidden presets, plus temporary PlotSquared regions.

Switching region rendering off restores vanilla interaction behavior by default. An optional setting can keep the selected interaction policy active for retained regions while rendering is off. The same screen controls the localized render-rebuild threshold; its default is 8,192 affected sections, including visibility toggles. Switching rendering off can affect sections outside your selection too. A full reload remains a fallback if the installed Flywheel version cannot refresh its visuals separately.

PlotSquared integration

With the compatible Selective Render Plots bridge installed on the server:

/sr p
/sr p [minY] [maxY] [xzMargin]
/sr p clear
/sr p s NAME [minY] [maxY] [xzMargin]

This uses exact PlotSquared shapes, including merged or irregular plots. Visit more plots and use /sr p again to add them to the same temporary view; repeat it on an active plot to remove it. Only the first plot in an empty selection automatically enables isolation. Switch it off with /sr t to collect more plots while seeing the full world, then toggle it back on when ready. The selection lasts for the current Minecraft session, including reconnects and dimension changes. Omitted Y values use the configurable minimum (initially -100) and maximum 400; a positive margin expands X/Z and a negative one shrinks the complete outline.

When LuckPerms or another permission manager is installed, ensure every intended user or group has selectiverender.plot.solo. Grant it explicitly on Fabric or when a Paper permission policy overrides the plugin's default, for example with /lp user PLAYER permission set selectiverender.plot.solo true.

Storage and limitations

Presets are stored locally per server or world and per dimension in config/selectiverender/. Config writes are atomic and keep a recoverable .json.bak backup. The JSON data can be transferred between instances, but its hashed file name depends on the server address or absolute single-player save path and the dimension ID. If that context changes, keep the file name SR generates for the target context and copy the old JSON contents into it while Minecraft is closed.

• Selected content must be within the normal client render distance.
• The mod does not reduce server-sent chunks or network traffic.
• Distant Horizons LOD geometry is not filtered.
• Custom mod renderers may require dedicated compatibility support.
• Selective filtering can change occlusion-culling behavior at region boundaries.

Minecraft 1.20.1 is currently supported. For requests regarding other Minecraft versions, contact pengwing.ac@gmail.com.

Licensed under GPL-3.0-only.