I See Your Chunks

The server sends terrain chunks around each player that a client is viewing, and a client that has installed the mod draws those chunks through Voxy's far renderer. Distant players then stand on actual geometry rather than a model hovering over a blank backdrop beyond the world's border. Only chunks that are already loaded are sent, so the server generates nothing new for this purpose.

Lighting and occlusion follow the chunk data received from the server. Torches, lava and sky light come from the packet's real block and sky light values, and a player behind a hill is hidden by the terrain itself rather than by an approximation. Mobs and mounts are shown standing on the streamed ground, and a slider sets how many chunks surround the viewed player, growing outward nearest-first and capped at the server's render distance. Clients announce themselves through an opt-in handshake, so the server sends nothing to anyone who did not ask for it.

The mod is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only. It requires Fabric API and Voxy, and Mod Menu is optional. It is installed on both the server and the client, and it is published for Fabric across four release versions, 1.20.1 – 26.2.