Argon is a modpack designed to take the vanilla Minceraft we all love, and expand upon it to make it a more enjoyable, seamless experience! It gives you cool features, while remaining multiplayer-friendly. You could go from having a public LAN game to playing your favorite server with high FPS to ensure you're bed-smashing skills are not interrupted by frame drops. It also includes other small features such as 3D skin layers, sound physics to add echoes in caves and noise muffling through walls, and custom capes. When you put all of these (and more!) together you get a great enhancement to your Minecraft experience!
Notable Features
- Overall better performance to the vanilla game.
- Completely compatable on vanilla servers. You can join basically any standard server without issue.
- Built in Simple Voice Chat and distant horizons. These two mods are absolutely the gold standard for fun. In single player distant horizons works automatically. (I would reccomend configuring it to your setup for better performance/visuals.) On a server, if it has either of these mods installed, you'll automatically gain the benefits without having to set it up yourself! This is great if your friends already play with either of these mods and you want to enjoy the benefits as well!
- Small visual tweaks. The UI has been overhauled, and certain blocks and items have been enhanced for a more pleasing experience. Don't like it? Check out your resource packs folder to see what can be added or disabled! (There are more packs than enabled by default!)
- Built-in shaders. Iris shaders is used for rendering, and many popular shaders with different vibes, graphics, and performance levels have been included! Try playing around to see what you like best and what runs the smoothest for you!
- The Capes mod has been included to allow full custom cape support from many popular providers, or the default cape system. Check out the mod page for Capes for full documentation.
UPDATE! 😁
I have brought Argon to Minecraft 1.21.11! This means some old mods had to be retired, but new ones were added! I also tweaked mods to be more cooperative with normal vanilla mechanics. Overall, you should have a smoother expierience with no decrease in performance to the previous version! (Hopefully, even better performance!) This new version is much more polished, and includes a bunch of shaders and resource packs by default! Everything should also be preconfigured to give you a strong out-of-the-box experience but can be easily configured to your desires! I hope you enjoy!!! 💗
An example of shaders being used at night.
An example of shaders being used in the day with leaves falling from birch trees.
Shaders being used during the day with falling leaves, the FPS is 146 but it can reach much higher when not using shaders. NOTE: This is a slightly overclocked GTX 1660 TI. This is on Ultra settings.
An example of shaders being used during the day over the water.
Without shaders, you can easily reach very high FPS. To get these numbers, I turned *off* VSYNC and set the FPS cap to Unlimited. Graphics card: GTX 1660 TI (overclocked).