Too Many Players
by Feytox
With Too Many Players installed, a crowd in view is drawn with far fewer elements, which raises frame rate on the client.
What it does
The mod turns off rendering for other players, leaving only their heads visible, along with their armor and held items. Fewer elements are drawn each frame, so FPS rises in crowded places, and players stay distinguishable by their heads. It is a client-side optimization, so only the player's own game needs the mod.
A Hiding Areas option applies hiding rules depending on the distance to a player, and a whitelist keeps chosen players out of the optimization. Commands add, remove and list whitelisted names, clear empties the list, and a hideskin setting hides a player's skin. A SP potato preset suits single-player clients with weak hardware.
No required dependency is listed for Fabric. Mod Menu is optional and adds a settings screen. The mod bundles MidnightLib internally. Too Many Players is open source under the MIT License and has files for Fabric covering 1.18.2 – 1.21.1, with 1.21-1.1.5 for 1.21.1 as the latest file.
Key features
Hidden player rendering
Other players are drawn without their bodies, armor or held items, leaving only the head visible.
Hiding Areas by distance
An optional mode applies hiding rules based on how far away a player stands.
Player whitelist
Players on the whitelist are skipped by the optimization, so they remain fully visible.
Chat-style commands
Commands add, remove, list and clear whitelisted players, and hideskin hides a player's skin.
Weak-PC preset
The SP potato preset adjusts the settings for single-player clients on lower-end hardware.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.20.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Optional 1
Embedded 1
Use cases
Crowded spawn areas
Players gathering at a spawn point or market can keep frame rate steady when many avatars are in view.
Large multiplayer servers
Players on busy servers can hide crowds while still identifying nearby friends by their heads.
Who it’s for: The mod suits players on Fabric whose frame rate drops when many other players are in view, and who are willing to show only heads in exchange.
Questions
Does Too Many Players need to be installed on the server?
Does the mod work with Mod Menu?
Which game versions have files for Too Many Players?
Can a whitelisted player still be hidden?
In the catalog
Too Many Players is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,575 Optimization mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Too Many Players is a rough client optimization mod to increase FPS when there are a lot of players in your field of vision. The mod allows you to completely turn off the rendering of players, their armor, objects in their hands and bodies, except for the head. Thus, the game draws fewer elements, which allows you to…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/tmp
- Owner
- Feytox
- Published
- 2022-07-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-08-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15