Ritchie's Projectile Library

The library adds a configurable chunkloading system aimed at long-range and fast projectiles, so projectiles in far-away chunks can keep moving. Chunks that a projectile no longer needs are released, and only part of a forceloaded set loads at a time, which lowers the performance cost while still allowing many long-distance projectiles.

Other tools cover client presentation and simulation: a tag for entity types that streams finer movement and position updates to players, a screen shake effect for mods focused on firearms and artillery, and projectile bursts that simulate fragmentation explosions, shotgun pellets and shrapnel without spawning large numbers of entities. The code was written for reuse across several projects by rbasamoyai.

Two catalog mods require the library: Create Big Cannons and Create: Nuclear Shell. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. Builds are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, covering 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 under the MIT License, and the source code is open source.