Blow away Minecraft's render distance limits with the NEW Distant Horizons mod! Join me as I REACT to this game-changing mod and explore its potential to revolutionize Minecraft. We'll dive into a simple setup guide, experiment with the settings, and see how Distant Horizons might impact Minecraft forever!
Timestamps:
0:47 - LOD's explained
1:36 - Setup Process
3:33 - Experimentation
PC specs: i5 12600K & RTX 3080
shaders shown in video: Bliss shaders
Iris project official discord invite link: (update: every link I share doesn't work so just look up the server, you can find it)
Here's another good video on this subject by @flowstatevideo be sure to check it out!
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Mojang should just hire some of this modders at this point, this guys are making Minecraft look like an actually actively updated game
They have hired some modder like gnembon but some sources say that there is too much bureaucracy and random hoops and garbage to go through to add something or change anything.
The problem is that these modders work in Java Only java Many of the things we see, like shaders and LODs are not doable on bedrock, bedrock uses a custom, well, everything written in C++, it's why it's so fucking buggy, anything added to bedrock needs to be programmed individually in C++ Mojang won't add something unless it's doable on bedrock, last time they did that was the 1.9 combat update and that was controversial
@@flamingscar5263i'd think adding lods in c++ would actually be much easier than java
With how little they update the game compared to what modders can do in Java, I'm not worried if Mojang ever decides to ditch Java and focus on the Bedrock monetization. The community will probably easily add the Bedrock updates to Java and better things like these mods
@@flamingscar5263tbf, bedrock have a way better performance and less of a unoptimized mess Java is
This is legitimetly how Minecraft should look like by default. It looks so natural and LODs are a no brainer for any open world game
Yea but the game is old and game makers dont like changing their style
Bro if that was Minecraft I wouldn't even play it. To play this Minecraft you need rtx 4090 to have it 60 FPS let alone integrated graphics on intel Pentium gold 4415U with 2.30 GHz.
And the game is good as is because shaders just make Minecraft.. just not Minecraft.
There can only be one Robert Downey Jr. pfp and it will be me.
@@MrGreenRecliner last one standing may win
Once Distant Horizons 2.0 comes out officially I will never play without it. I've been playing with Distant Horizons shaders for a couple of days and it just restored the love of Minecraft in me.
Imagine using it on a custom map you made with a city, damn
Why imagine? I've tried out several and as you can guess it's absolutely bonkers.
I already cannot imagine playing without it. I'm playing in VR with the create mod and some others, and now I've played around 150 hours in just that, triple more time I spent in other VR games.
Bless your heart
For me, this is the biggest update of minecraft that turn this game to another level. It will definitely made players feel fun and enjoy to this game again. I came back to play this game with these mods install, and I've fallen in love with this game just like how I feel when I was 7 The biggest update of minecraft that will made players enjoy again, change minecraft forever, and it didn't come from the developer.
I recommend using another mod called "chunky" alongside with DH. It essentially preloads all of your chunks (within a certain radius, most set it to 6000) making distant horizons load all of the chunks faster, which also give you more performance as a plus.
How does it work? If you know. Curious
And world size about 999 Gb
@@_Zemlya 6000x6000 map is something around 1-3 Gb file and that is plenty of space to play for singleplayer (if you don't use nether for travel) so its not so bad if you don't start to load bigger numbers, which just doubles the file size every few thousands of blocks.
You preload the chunks, i did it for our server that i play with friends. I preloaded on my pc on singleplayer about 6000 blocks in a square radius from our spawn. The issue is that the world save file doesnt weigh that much, but the LODS weigh like 7GB for this amount of chunks. So it is very bulky. But with this method if you have acess to the seed or the map. You can use this on server with friends very effectivly.
Can someone please explain to me how you combine mods with distant horizons? Im very new to modding so all the file shit confuses me but i have two separate modded versions of minecraft, one with iris distant horizons, and forge. I want to use my forge mods with distant horizons but i am unsure how
Just an FYI, but it seems that you never actually went above 200/300 chunks rendered. Distant Horizons has to load in all these chunks, process them and then display them. And because your CPU Load setting (just 2 under Render Distance Input) was set "Low Impact" it never actually had the chance to load them in fast enough to really see it. (You can see chunks popping up in the distance to see the actual speed). For presentation purposes, I'd recommend setting it to Aggressive, as it takes quite a while to load them in normally. You can look around and actually see the chunks loading in the background. The only chunks you really saw were the ones that were already preloaded before, so increasing the distance made little difference. That's also why you saw that some chunks were missing. And quitting the world and re-entering it just causes the mod to load the already cached world data.
To add to this, running a chunk generation mod like chunky overnight to generate 5000-10000 blocks radius will probably be enough almost for a whole playthrough. Unless exploring over 10000 blocks away is a thing you usually do that is.
i have an intel core i914900k yet i cant set it to the max settings, it just crashes right away
@@sckiivmaybe try limiting your cpu in bios or getting a better cooler
If you wait enough you can tell the difference with higher radii
@@sckiivI have an 11700f and can set it to max no problem
Holy moly....oh, hey, my computer is on fi... *distant explosion*
It won’t.
yea it's pretty omptimized for low end pcs
Actually no Distant horizons uses what's called LODs, level of detail The farther a chunk, the less of the chunk is rendered and at less detail
@@Ace_IsG0nenot with shaders rllt
@@wordlessiactually even with the shaders it can be used and run well so its still really optimized, unless your computer is super cheap then thats just a you problem 🤷♂️
distant horizons or bobby actual allows for real exploration, unlike vanilla where u look at a fog border and hope for the best.
it really looks like an open-world game now, when i see this, my reaction was "Minecraft has always been this beautiful?"
I think they should add a lod sysrem into the base game, if q small dev team of passoniate modders for free can do this, imagine what tons of actual paid employees could do
@@sixty5notch796 maybe no, the mod makers don’t have time pressure while the devs have to update regularly, they don’t have time for that thing
Sorry they don't have time for making the game better@@sixty5notch796
@@minhtranquoc8122 Well, they do have the resources to do something similar to this, and personally I don't see any other feature they could add that would be more impactful than something like an LOD slider.
it just gives such a nice peace of mind that u can just pillar up & figure out where you wanna go & what you wanna do 1st
8:02 it looks the same because it would take a *VERY* long time for Distant Horizons to generate 8000000 chunks (4000x4000)
16,000,000
Mojang should have done this…
That’s exactly what I was thinking 😮💀
playing with custom terrain on a survival world with friends WITH distant horizons with a single-handedly amazing experience
hi
I wish Mojang would add something like this to Vanilla
Bro as goofy as the "chunks" setting looks, it also has a real charm to it. I feel like if Minecraft had always had that as a way to see distant chunks where they're kind of just averaged together, we would all be used to it and think nothing more of it.
The gaps in the world are from you leaving the world and interrupting the chunk loading task. It's worth checking the Impact setting in the menu to the highest setting, sit at 5fps for like 2 minutes, then set it back to minimal when working with farther render distance. I currently play on a world at 2048 distance with no issues. You can also hit F3 to see the running tasks.
My boy, your video quality, commentary, storytelling, music, and emotions are just over the top! Your videos are absolutely wonderful.
Love your editing style, feels very high quality
finally got DH+Bliss to work, Thank you!!!
So underrated, congrats on 1k subs btw 🎉
just 890 views? YOU DESERVE SO MUCH MORE 😭
Look again
I do, too :D
Gotta love DH, good shout on the installation tutorial, i shouldve done that
Oh hey Lunar
Minecraft community is amazing, what were microsoft devs doing with the game this whole time? there's a guy that made this incredible mod, and at the same time, Mojang with F**ing Microsoft is tryint to release some wolf skins for 1.20.5 )? doesn't make any sense to me, and I'm saying this from a POV of a Java Software Engineer.
Yeah the fact that people are more excited for this mod than the actual Minecraft update should say something to the Mojang devs.
I'm an avid Bethesda game player and modder, my mind was blown until you said LOD's, and then I was like oh well yeah duh. It's such an archaic of long distance rendering but it almost always proves to be better than full rendering.
Oh, it's still in development I guess I'll just wait for the official release. Can't wait to play it on my potato!
Now if only I could use Distant Horizons with shaders, Create, and Valkyrian skies, my dream of creating a steampunk utopia in Minecraft will be complete.
in the F3 menu it shows if it is currently working on rendering new stuff, also you can change how much CPU the mod uses to renders, I would put it at maximum and then wait a few minutes when the world is first created, after that you can reduce the allotted CPU power without problems.
Chunks not loading could be you running out of available VRAM or it's just that the auto generator function missed a chunk and you now have to go over and actually generate them yourself. I noticed that to update the LODS you have to reload the chunks in the area. While we were building a castle on our world, I would often go into spectator mode and fly away to look at the castle from a distance. It wouldn't have the new additions rendered until I reentered the area and reloaded those chunks, then I could fly away again and see the new LODS. ALSO; If you get that weird graphical ghosting bug from disabling or reenabling shaders, just tap R and it'll reload the shader. That fixes it.
Hey my chunks go pretty far (100-150 chunks) but not as much as it should even if i set my distance to 400+. I have 4060 ti + r5 5600 and 16 gb ram. I gave the permission to the game to use 10 gigs so there is no problem on the ram sides but i doubt about the 8 gb vram. Also when i run the mode with terralith and tectonic the slow loading and missing chunks go even crazier. Is there something to do with the cpu, vram or the optimization of the mode? Pls help my only hope is that DH is still in beta.
u are super underrated bro
Can’t wait to have it on 1.20.4, I am building a city in this version and the mod would allow for some astounding photos
Actually i found a 1.20.4 experimental DH version and downloaded it
Can you make a video about all mods (or modpack i assume) in your mods folder? Love it!
It's in the works
Upping the actual render distance with chunks can work decently, increasing your lod distance with chunks will cause the drop in graphic quality to be spread out over further distances
Breathtaking!
after all my years of playing minecraft, it’s completely unbelievable how far this game has come
When you play with distant horizons once, there is no going back. It is just too good to see your endless world and your buildings very far away.
Did you actually generate a large enough world to use those high render distances? DH needs to generate the LOD chunks as well as the actual chunks so those insanely high render distances will take absurd amounts of time to generate.
It's a lot faster than you'd think, and theres settings for how much cpu is dedicated to chunk loading. You can put it on "I paid for the whole CPU" and run at 5fps while it loads tens of thousands of chunks then pop it back down once the world is loaded.
It doesn't generate the actual chunks. It's very quick.
@@1GAMEDOG1 There is a toggle to turn OFF chunk generation but it is On by default.
@@Bomb_and_Kou it generates it's own LoD chunks, completely separate to Minecraft's actual chunks being generated. The chunk generation is quick because it's much simpler than actual chunk generation.
very informative, I plan to test it and I hope it can function with Vivecraft in any capacity... 😅
thes mod made us realised how small our world really was. we thought we had massive epic builds only to install Distant Horizons to feel like we were really just next door
There’s just videos about this left and right and right under my nose all the time! 😅
The chunk loading is actually such a vibe, it almost turns Minecraft into a liminal game
Yo bro your content is very high quality for the amount subscribers you have and also I wanted to know the GUI texture pack that you used
Thanks. It's the reimagined GUI dark pack. I'm making a video that goes through all my mods and packs later, so stay tuned
I kinda see this being added in to the game in a future update. This mod REALLY shows you what minecraft is missing the most. Basic LOD.
THe only expansions I've wanted from day 1 were bigger caves and further render distance. It's been a good year and some for me to say the least.
Even the chunk lods looks good because they feel stylistic in a complementary way to mc
Ye, ive been seeing just lots of cinematics with this mod now.
this is actually so good bc I use bliss shaders normally
Nice video man, quick question. Whats your Bliss shader's settings? Do you have a config video somewhere maybe?
you got alot of cool mods that ive never seen before, is there a modpack with all your mods? even if there isnt, rlly cool video
Not a modpack but I'm working on a video where I go over all my mods and resource packs so stay tuned!
Not enough people talk about nvidium. It’s a paper add on that doesn’t use LOD’s but instead nvidia gpu mesh magic (?) to use vram and load many more chunks at once. It allows for full detail at very far distances (1000fps at 128 chunks) but requires a decent nvidia gpu.
Time to add this to my allthemods9 server
“Why is it not recommended “ - leaves world and rejoins every time he changes 1 setting
It has probably already been stated, but the smearing effect is related to CPU usage, at least for me it can't be set to "low" or "minimal". Set it to normal or balanced and it might start working for you
Version 0.07 is coming out in a month or two. Hopefully, it will be stable and for minecraft version 1.20.4
By the way, you can only ever see 3-4 miles away irl, which conveniently is 300-400 render distance. We are literally getting into the territory where we can see as far in Minecraft as the real world.
I noticed that the problem with this mod is that the chunks need to be pre-loaded first. In other words, if you just spawned into a new world, the chunks that you never loaded will never show up in the distance. But if you flied/walked around the world for a bit and then returned to your spawn point, then you would see that the very distant chunks are still loaded in the background, making it look like you can see really far. It's a bit of a shame that the mod can't load the chunks that are really far in a low resolution and only increase the resolution when you get closer.
Why it cant load some chunks? Probably some chunks was never generated, so to show them minecraft need to generete them (which it take some CPU), you can try change the setting "CPU Load" from Low Impact to higher.
DH generates a file in save folder which can be quite big. This area you rendered in the middle of video can take approximately 5gb. I'd assume that's why it takes quite a time to load
That makes sense
Amazing 🤩
Waiting already few months for release, thinking they will never release it
Minecraft should have 64 chunks by default... without lod...
Your computer would implode and the game would be unplayable
With better optimizations to rendering, yes it should.
Bedrock Edition joins the chat -Sorry
All games use LODs and minecraft is a game that needs them
@@lilcatguy8317 Not my PC lol, my PC is the fastest you can buy besides having the most storage, (i9 14900ks, 128GB DDR5 7233mhz, RTX 4090 Strix OC)
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It’s insane to me that Minecraft doesn’t natively support LOD. Its a no brainer
The chunk mode actually looks weirdly cool.
Now imagine if Cubic chunks got updated for newer versions and you use it, plus DH, plus shaders on a world with extreme generation.
insane how lod's and a basic shader isn't in vanilla minecraft still
I wonder if this works with the VR mod. It really needs this because for some reason anything higher than a render distance of 8 makes it work incredibly slow
That glitch where the sky isn't rendering (and therefore the buffer isn't cleared resulting in that trippy visual) can be bandage "fixed" by turning off the Bliss shaderpack.
When I turned bliss shaders back on it still is messed up
This should be in the Base Game Such another world when you see 3 Times more
the reason why your lods were loading slowly is because in the settings, ur cpu load was low impact so it was using less cpu power, if you want it to load fast you have to increase it to like aggresive. Also what you loaded was actually not 1500 chunks, it was around 256 only, 1500 takes a lot of time and performance to load, when u rejoined the world it simply boosted the first few lod chunks to load
What resource pack are you using for the UI? It looks really good
It's called Reimagined GUI dark
Are you able to see structures you build really far away? Or does it use the seed generation of the world to show the "original" chunks?
- Mojang can't implement LOD in their game Random one dude from internet: well, i did
You should try that mod on the Wynncraft server, full immersion with shader :o
Hey do you have a modlist for this video? I like the way your game was moving so I would like to know
do you know already? i really want this movement mod
nvm i found it. its called "camera overhaul"
I'm working on a video where I go through all my mods. It's been taking longer than expected cuz I have like 300+ mods
did a little math and ~300 on the DH render distance should be about accurate in terms of how far you can see in real life (~3 miles in ideal conditions)
Ill be honest, i havent played minecraft without distant horizons ever since it came out and so did the bliss shaders for it. Genuine game changer. Edit: i also generally dont play without tectonic. Tectonic is perfect with distsnt horizons.
distant horizons mod is super amazing. you can literally increase the view dist so its more then irl. it makes the flat earth look concave, somthing we dont observe in reality.
As nice as it is, how will this affect chunks where you update / mod a world?
This is a pretty good video
I just want this to work with mods. I will then install it instantly - Seeing my factory and our train station from afar... I would cry. :D Especially playing in VR....
2:33 thank you
i actually had an idea for a solution to the render distance near the horizon. one could be a world curvature effect, which could just bend the unrendered land over a fake horizon maybe? another solution would be the old minecraft fog effect,but just have it off way into the distance so it kinda softens the horizon
what was the shader pack in the beginning? it looked really cool
underrated channel
I will not even dare to download that, I still want my pc, I can set it on fire later.
i think you still had shaders on at the end there and thats why it was glitching out visually
Sadly no matter what I do I just can't get it to work with shaders. Hopefully they get this working and a lot easier in the future it's such an amazing looking mod.
That's the future of minecraft in my opinion
The chunks still need to be generated. That's why it won't show the entire world at first.
just to note distant horizons wont force your server to send you extra chunks. DH instead will rememebr chunks you have been and wont unload them. this is why you see empty chunks,2 so get your elytra and go explore and fill out your world for distant horizons
I find it insane this idea wasnt done as an offical update yet
You see. MS had a free hand in creating Bedrock as it is a clean rewrite. They could add any and all optimization they wanted to. But no, Mojang barely adds a mob a couple blocks a year.
what are you using for the camera bobbing and such? it looks so smooth (i dont play too muhc minecraft so i dont know if thats just a default thing or not)
Check my latest video, I talk about them
1) updating the settings can take a while, especially when generating as more CPU time is dedicated to generating rather than updating the terrain with new settings. 2) the gaps are result of interrupted generation, they only appear in the LOD areas (ie if you visit them they will still be there) the 2.0.2 version of the mod did not save correctly which areas are actually generated. 3) generation is slow in general, because Minecraft chunk generation is slow, generating 256 chunks RD can take a hour or two. 4) most limits in settings are arbitrary, there is debug option to bypass it 5) DH does not like when you constantly turn shader on and off
The reason it is so cool is because 1 block = 1 meter. 1 chunk = 16m. 700chunks = 11.2 km you can only see around 5 km irl now you can see further. That means the most realistic is around 300
Just enough to see how flat the world really is am I right?😉
what are the mods and texture packs you used they look insane when in gameplay
Working on a video so stay tuned
Yo can you link your modlist, it looks amazing
I'm gonna make a video about it. A lot of the ones I used in here are explained in my other video (the one with the hand in the thumbnail)
So did you find a clear way to fix the glitch where the ground will go into the sky when you turn enable rendering on
Another game still relevant entirely by modders. Y'all are the real MVPs
minecraft hasnt looked this good in a long time
How does it look with non natural generation? Like big builds/ cities.
Good lord I wish more resource packs would be made like this so bedrock could use it
Great video. Just wondering what UI resource pack is at 3:43?
It's called the reimagined GUI dark pack. I'm working on a video where I go over all my mods and texture packs soon, so stay tuned!