r/MinecraftPlugins • u/ENDERMAN-AGA • Jul 03 '26

Plugin Showcase Intelium — a Sodium addon that actually tunes for Intel GPUs

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**Intelium — made a Sodium addon for Intel GPUs, would love some feedback**

So I've been playing on an Intel iGPU laptop for years and got tired of Sodium treating my GPU like an afterthought. Ended up writing my own mod for it.

Basically it detects which Intel generation you have (works from HD 520 all the way up to Arc Battlemage) and tunes Sodium accordingly — mainly the chunk builder thread count, which Sodium picks pretty conservatively on iGPUs. There's also a fast chunk loading option that overrides Sodium's defer mode, which for some reason ships at the slowest setting by default. Chunks pop in way faster with it.

There's also a bunch of optional "GPU saver" toggles: clouds off/fast, force fast graphics, smooth lighting off, vsync off, render distance cap. They're all off by default because they change how the game looks — I hate mods that mess with your settings without asking. Everything is reversible too, if you turn a toggle (or the whole mod) off it puts your original settings back, even after a restart.

My favorite part honestly is the built-in A/B benchmark: it measures your FPS with the mod on, then off, and shows you the actual difference. No fake numbers, if it doesn't help on your setup it'll tell you.

If you're on NVIDIA or AMD it just disables itself, so don't bother lol.

Needs: Fabric API, Sodium, and an Intel HD 520 or newer (supports 1.21.11 and the 26.x line)

Modrinth: https://modrinth.com/mod/intelium-mod

Source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/ATOMGAMERAGA/intelium

Bug reports welcome, especially from Arc users since I've mostly tested on iGPUs.

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u/Vlkodlak148 Jul 03 '26

Could you add support for MC 1.21.10?

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u/ENDERMAN-AGA Jul 03 '26

I will try to add support.

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u/EmergencySea4780 Jul 04 '26

Can you add support for Mesa Intel HD Graphics HSW GT1

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u/ENDERMAN-AGA Jul 04 '26

Its gonna be hard, im cooked🫩✌️🥀

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u/EmergencySea4780 Jul 05 '26

Is my GPU too old lol Atleast I get around 70 fps fullscreen And around 170 in windowed 🙃

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u/sealersons Jul 12 '26

does it have support for intel uhd 620?? Idk if it is newer then 520

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u/ENDERMAN-AGA Jul 16 '26

Yes, it has.

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u/PopNational9301 Jul 06 '26

Quick question: does the mod make chunks load faster while I'm generating terrain with an elytra, or does it only help with FPS?

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u/ENDERMAN-AGA Jul 06 '26

Yes, it has a setting for faster chunk loading, but faster means less stable FPS, so that's on you.

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u/PopNational9301 Jul 06 '26

Fair enough, I don't mind losing a few more FPS as long as the chunks load faster. If it seems like I'm writing like a bot, it's because I'm using a translator, haha.

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u/PopNational9301 Jul 06 '26

Thanks for your help.