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mcopt, a Minecraft mod: a native Metal renderer for Minecraft: Java Edition on Apple Silicon Macs (alpha)

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About the project

A Minecraft: Java Edition mod that swaps in a native Metal renderer to boost FPS on Apple Silicon Macs. It is in alpha and requires Sodium 0.9.3 and Java 25.

Useful for

Speed up Minecraft rendering on an Apple Silicon Mac by installing the mod alongside Sodium
Enable experimental far terrain via mcopt.lod=true on Macs with 10+ GPU cores
Disable the Metal renderer with mcopt.metal=false when a mod like Distant Horizons crashes

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5.6 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 4, 2026, 23:35 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

121 stars today.
The repository is 0 days old and already has 119 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #163.
About 29 forks a day — people are taking the code.

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Numbers

Total stars: 119
Today: 121
Forks: 6
Issues and pull requests: 4
Watchers: 0
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v0.2.0-alpha.1 · October 4, 2026
Created: October 4, 2026
Last push: October 4, 2026

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October 4, 2026Top new repositories this week: #163

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