# noahdunnagan/mcopt

> 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.

- Magnitude: 5.6 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 125 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 124 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: Java · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-04 · Last push: 2026-10-04
- GitHub: https://github.com/noahdunnagan/mcopt · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/noahdunnagan/mcopt

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 124 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 125 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #144.
- About 29 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 6
- Issues and pull requests: 5
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 126 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 9
- Latest release: v0.2.0-alpha.1 (2026-10-04)

## Stars per day, last 2 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-10-05: 127, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-04 5.6, 10-05 5.6

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #144

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ZeldaWWHDRecomp/ZeldaWWHDRecomp.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-05 00:17 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.