LOD Server Support

LOD Server Support

Enables players with Voxy to see fully rendered terrain out to hundreds of chunks on multiplayer servers without needing to explore the world first. Also includes far player rendering so you can also see other players far beyond the vanilla render distance. It can even show far terrain on servers running Distant Horizons (experimental).

Try it live: join lod-server-support.modrinth.gg with Voxy and this mod installed. Supports Minecraft 26.3, 26.2, 26.1, 1.21.11, 1.21.10, and 1.21.1.

Installation

Install LOD Server Support on both the server (Fabric mod, Paper plugin, NeoForge mod, or Sponge plugin) and every client that wants these features, together with Voxy on the client. Clients without it can still join normally.

It works out of the box. Client options are on the mod's page in Sodium's video settings.

Compatibility

Clients use the Fabric mod on every version; on 26.3, 26.2, 26.1, and 1.21.1 a NeoForge client works as well. Supported servers:

Minecraft — Fabric — Paper / Purpur — Folia — NeoForge — Sponge

26.3 — ✅ — ✅ — ✅ — ✅ — ✅

26.2 — ✅ — ✅ — ✅ — ✅ — ✅

26.1 — ✅ — ✅ — ✅ — ✅ — ✅

1.21.11 — ✅ — ✅ — ✅ — - — ✅

1.21.10 — ✅ — ✅ — - — - — ✅

1.21.1 — ✅ — ✅ — - — ✅ — ✅

Folia and Sponge support are experimental. NeoForge support is best-effort, with far player rendering available on 1.21.1 only.

Compatible with AntiXray, Moonrise, C2ME, ViaVersion/ViaBackwards, and most other mods including Create. Clients and servers on different LOD Server Support versions (v0.4.0 and newer) work together, so either side can update first.

Voxy Server Side is the same mod. Voxy Server Side clients are compatible with LOD Server Support servers and vice versa.

Features

• Distant terrain from the server, shown through Voxy.
• Far players: see other players far beyond the vanilla render distance. Turn off "Share My Position" if you don't want to be shown.
• Maps: fills Xaero's World Map and JourneyMap with the distant terrain (toggle "Map Ingestion").
• Distant Horizons servers (experimental): on a server running Distant Horizons 3.3.x, far terrain loads through Voxy even if the server doesn't have LOD Server Support. Don't install the Distant Horizons client mod alongside it. Not endorsed by the Distant Horizons team.

NeoForge clients load the Fabric Voxy jar through our Foxy fork on 26.x or Roxy on 1.21.1. Tested mod pairings are in the README.

Commands

• /lss status - Show what the mod is doing on your client
• /lss clearcache - Download this server's distant terrain again (also the "Re-download Terrain" button in the mod's Sodium settings, with Sodium 0.8 or newer)
• /lss reset - Delete this world's saved distant terrain and download it fresh
• /lsslod reload - Server: reload the settings file
• /lsslod diag - Server: show diagnostics

For server owners

Settings are in config/lss-server-config.yaml (Fabric, NeoForge, Sponge) or plugins/LodServerSupport/lss-server-config.yaml (Paper), documented inline. The defaults are fine for most servers. Pre-generating your world with a tool such as Chunky gives players the best experience.

All settings, permissions, commands and performance tuning are in the README.

Redistribution

This mod is MIT-licensed, redistribution with attribution is welcome, and modpacks can reference the official Modrinth project directly. Per Modrinth's reupload policy: XANTHA via Voxy Server Side has the copyright holder's explicit permission to distribute this mod, and derivatives of it, on Modrinth.