Allows you to adjust the fog render quality as Fancy, Fast, or Off.
Moody makes caves very dark whereas full brightness allows you to see without torches. No effect on performance, simply a gamma-style adjustment of in-game light levels. If you’re playing on a very large monitor and find the GUI to be too small, you can fix it here.
Again, the performance boost here is minimal so only decrease the percentage if you’re looking to squeeze out an FPS boost on a very low-spec machine.Īdjusts the onscreen display (e.g. This setting is introduced by Optifine and allows you a finer level of control over how the Smooth Lighting is applied. It has a very minimal effect on performance we suggest leaving it on because toggling it to the lower settings is pretty ugly (and you gain very little FPS boost in return). This setting is identical to vanilla Minecraft. Switch to “Fast” to disable the effects and increase FPS.
“Fancy” is more resource intensive it turns on shadow rendering, dynamic water, volumetric clouds, and transparent leaves, among other things. Several settings are present in both regular Minecraft and Optifine we’ll note when they are and explain what’s different. For ease of reference we’ll use a table with the setting on the left-hand side and the explanation on the right.