Entity Culling
by tr7zw
Entity Culling skips rendering of entities and block entities hidden behind walls, using visibility checks that run on spare CPU threads.
What it does
The base game already skips things behind the camera, but it still renders entities and block entities that are blocked from view by terrain. Entity Culling traces lines of sight asynchronously on other CPU cores and drops draw work for anything the player cannot see. Data for the checks is gathered on the main thread every few ticks, and visibility updates in real time to limit pop-in.
Culling is a client-side change only: server simulation, farms and mob behavior are not affected. All features can be turned off in the config screen, and entities or block entities can be whitelisted so they are never culled. On Fabric the mod requires Fabric API; Glass Config API and ModMenu Beta are optional.
Key features
Asynchronous visibility
Line-of-sight checks run on spare CPU threads next to the main game thread instead of blocking it.
Hidden entity skipping
Entities and block entities that are fully blocked by terrain are not drawn, which removes their rendering cost.
Whitelist
Specific entities and block entities can be excluded from culling and tick culling when a mod needs them drawn.
Wide version range
Builds span b1.7.3 – 26.3 across Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt and Babric, 43 versions in total, with snapshot builds too.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x11 of 11 versions with builds
1.20.x6 of 6 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.18.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.17.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.16.x6 of 6 versions with builds
1.12.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.8.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.7.x1 of 1 version with builds
This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Required by 2 mods
Questions
Does Entity Culling change how farms or mobs work?
Does a server need Entity Culling?
What does it require?
In the catalog
Entity Culling is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,575 Optimization mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Minecraft skips rendering things that are behind you, so why is it rendering everything that you still can't see because of walls or ceilings in the way? This mod introduces asynchronous path-tracing to efficiently determine what's actually visible to the player. Using other available CPU cores, it calculates…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/entityculling
- Owner
- tr7zw
- Published
- 2022-05-25
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15