Ck7 - Conatus

On modest machines, and laptops with integrated graphics in particular, the two loads that usually drag frame rate and server tick rate down are mob and villager AI on the server and particle rendering on the client, and Conatus is aimed at both. Each of its six modules has its own configuration file, and a single master switch turns all of them off at once. The mod is client-side only, so servers run without it and players install it alone.

Mob AI Freeze stops mobs outside a configurable radius, 48 blocks by default, from running their AI, and an optional line-of-sight check can keep a mob active while it is visible. Villager Throttling does the same for villagers beyond 32 blocks, and a villager wakes instantly when a player right-clicks it to trade. Both modules re-check distance at an interval the server owner sets, with the same trade-off between responsiveness and cost. A mob or villager within a safe radius of 20 blocks is never frozen, so fights do not snap back mid-swing.

Particle culling and the chunk-load module are the remaining two parts of the six. Ambient particles outside a set radius are dropped when they lie outside the player's view cone, while combat, interaction and redstone particles are never culled by view angle. Chunk-loading throttling restores everything after a short cooldown, 40 ticks by default, once the load drops back below its threshold. Conatus needs Cloth Config API, and it is published for Forge 1.20.1 through the 1.20.6 line.