InfiView
InfiView extends the distance at which terrain is drawn, letting players see far beyond the normal render limit on Forge 1.7.10.
What it does
Rendering reaches a pseudo-infinite distance in InfiView, though the quality of far chunks is low. Parts of the scenery beyond the normal limit are drawn at reduced fidelity, and the author describes the result as acceptable rather than polished. Fog in the Nether is not handled correctly, the background can appear black, and night is not handled, so chunks may show as fullbright.
The mod shows explored areas as the world is rendered, which matters when saving pictures of a landscape. Users should expect intermittent frame rate drops, since the author notes that the mod can cause significant FPS loss at times. Because of the large amount of data needed to cover distant terrain, the author estimates that testing used hundreds of megabytes, with larger worlds likely taking gigabytes of disk space.
InfiView is released under the MIT License and is not open source. The project began with immibis, and ModrinthArchives later published this build on Modrinth with the original creator's approval, keeping it available after development stopped. The author marks it as an alpha release and lists current limitations on the page. Only the client needs it, so servers do not have to install anything.
Key features
Pseudo-infinite render distance
Terrain is drawn well past the usual view distance, at a quality the author rates as low for distant chunks.
Explored area display
The mod marks the areas that have been explored while the world is rendered, which can help when taking screenshots.
Known rendering limits
Fog in the Nether, a black background and night handling are listed as unfinished areas of the rendering.
High disk and frame rate cost
The author warns of heavy disk use and intermittent frame rate drops, especially in large worlds.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Landscape screenshots
Players who want to photograph distant terrain can use the extended draw distance to include more of the landscape.
Who it’s for: Players on Forge 1.7.10 who want to test long-distance rendering and accept the alpha limitations, including the large disk footprint, can use InfiView as a client-side experiment.
Questions
Does InfiView need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft version does InfiView support?
Why does InfiView use a lot of disk space?
In the catalog
InfiView is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,149 Decoration mods for Forge. 1,013 mods support Minecraft 1.7.10.
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What the author says
This mod will show you all explored areas of your world, by rendering them when you go near them, and saving the pictures. It's not perfect quality, or even good, but it works surprisingly well. Note that it can use quite a lot of disk space - hundreds of megabytes in my testing, probably gigabytes for larger worlds.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/infiview
- Owner
- ModrinthArchives
- Published
- 2023-06-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-06-15
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15