[DRD] Dynamic Render Distance

The mod samples the frame rate once per second and compares its average against a minimum and a maximum threshold. When the average drops below the minimum, render distance is lowered. When it rises above the maximum, render distance goes up. The check runs every 5 seconds by default, and a 10-second cooldown stops the value from oscillating back and forth. Render distance always stays inside the configured minimum and maximum bounds.

Lowering is set to descend quickly, in steps of 2 chunks, while raising climbs slowly, in steps of 1, so the game favors playable frame rates and widens the view gradually. Players who would otherwise tune render distance by hand, and who notice white flashes and stutters from repeated manual changes, can leave the system to handle it. Render distances above 32 chunks, reaching as high as 256, work with Bobby, and the settings open from a screen added by Mod Menu.

The mod requires Sodium. It runs on the client alone, so servers need nothing installed. Files are published for Fabric only, across 25 release versions, 1.18.2 – 1.21.11, under All rights reserved, so the code is not open source.