The Distant Horizons mod is changing Minecraft 

Mojang should just hire some of this modders at this point, this guys are making Minecraft look like an actually actively updated game

This is legitimetly how Minecraft should look like by default. It looks so natural and LODs are a no brainer for any open world game

Once Distant Horizons 2.0 comes out officially I will never play without it. I've been playing with Distant Horizons shaders for a couple of days and it just restored the love of Minecraft in me.

I recommend using another mod called "chunky" alongside with DH. It essentially preloads all of your chunks (within a certain radius, most set it to 6000) making distant horizons load all of the chunks faster, which also give you more performance as a plus.

Just an FYI, but it seems that you never actually went above 200/300 chunks rendered. Distant Horizons has to load in all these chunks, process them and then display them. And because your CPU Load setting (just 2 under Render Distance Input) was set "Low Impact" it never actually had the chance to load them in fast enough to really see it. (You can see chunks popping up in the distance to see the actual speed). For presentation purposes, I'd recommend setting it to Aggressive, as it takes quite a while to load them in normally. You can look around and actually see the chunks loading in the background. The only chunks you really saw were the ones that were already preloaded before, so increasing the distance made little difference. That's also why you saw that some chunks were missing. And quitting the world and re-entering it just causes the mod to load the already cached world data.

It’s insane to me that Minecraft doesn’t natively support LOD. Its a no brainer

Holy moly....oh, hey, my computer is on fi... *distant explosion*

distant horizons or bobby actual allows for real exploration, unlike vanilla where u look at a fog border and hope for the best.

it just gives such a nice peace of mind that u can just pillar up & figure out where you wanna go & what you wanna do 1st

playing with custom terrain on a survival world with friends WITH distant horizons with a single-handedly amazing experience

8:02 it looks the same because it would take a *VERY* long time for Distant Horizons to generate 8000000 chunks (4000x4000)

Mojang should have done this…

minecraft takes two years to add a single mob and a couple new blocks and calls it a “major update” They just need to hire these people already

I remember seeing ilmango play with Distant Horizons in his peaceful skyblock world. He could build farms kilometers away and still be able to see those farms back at spawn. Distant Horizons really is incredible. Glad to see it get more reach.

My boy, your video quality, commentary, storytelling, music, and emotions are just over the top! Your videos are absolutely wonderful.

I wish Mojang would add something like this to Vanilla

The gaps in the world are from you leaving the world and interrupting the chunk loading task. It's worth checking the Impact setting in the menu to the highest setting, sit at 5fps for like 2 minutes, then set it back to minimal when working with farther render distance. I currently play on a world at 2048 distance with no issues. You can also hit F3 to see the running tasks.

Minecraft community is amazing, what were microsoft devs doing with the game this whole time? there's a guy that made this incredible mod, and at the same time, Mojang with F**ing Microsoft is tryint to release some wolf skins for 1.20.5 )? doesn't make any sense to me, and I'm saying this from a POV of a Java Software Engineer.

Love your editing style, feels very high quality

So underrated, congrats on 1k subs btw 🎉

Gotta love DH, good shout on the installation tutorial, i shouldve done that

just 890 views? YOU DESERVE SO MUCH MORE 😭

finally got DH+Bliss to work, Thank you!!!

The inner nerd in me screamed every time i saw you set a value to 500 instead of 512 or any another power of 2

Oh, it's still in development I guess I'll just wait for the official release. Can't wait to play it on my potato!

u are super underrated bro

in the F3 menu it shows if it is currently working on rendering new stuff, also you can change how much CPU the mod uses to renders, I would put it at maximum and then wait a few minutes when the world is first created, after that you can reduce the allotted CPU power without problems.

This is incredible, but what I'm truly excited for in the future is nvidium getting shader/iris compatibility and running that with the Bobby mod.

Chunks not loading could be you running out of available VRAM or it's just that the auto generator function missed a chunk and you now have to go over and actually generate them yourself. I noticed that to update the LODS you have to reload the chunks in the area. While we were building a castle on our world, I would often go into spectator mode and fly away to look at the castle from a distance. It wouldn't have the new additions rendered until I reentered the area and reloaded those chunks, then I could fly away again and see the new LODS. ALSO; If you get that weird graphical ghosting bug from disabling or reenabling shaders, just tap R and it'll reload the shader. That fixes it.

Did you actually generate a large enough world to use those high render distances? DH needs to generate the LOD chunks as well as the actual chunks so those insanely high render distances will take absurd amounts of time to generate.

Upping the actual render distance with chunks can work decently, increasing your lod distance with chunks will cause the drop in graphic quality to be spread out over further distances

Breathtaking!

The chunks still need to be generated. That's why it won't show the entire world at first.

very informative, I plan to test it and I hope it can function with Vivecraft in any capacity... 😅

It looks like something out of a cinematic Minecraft movie, and that's awesome!

Can’t wait to have it on 1.20.4, I am building a city in this version and the mod would allow for some astounding photos

Why it cant load some chunks? Probably some chunks was never generated, so to show them minecraft need to generete them (which it take some CPU), you can try change the setting "CPU Load" from Low Impact to higher.

1) updating the settings can take a while, especially when generating as more CPU time is dedicated to generating rather than updating the terrain with new settings. 2) the gaps are result of interrupted generation, they only appear in the LOD areas (ie if you visit them they will still be there) the 2.0.2 version of the mod did not save correctly which areas are actually generated. 3) generation is slow in general, because Minecraft chunk generation is slow, generating 256 chunks RD can take a hour or two. 4) most limits in settings are arbitrary, there is debug option to bypass it 5) DH does not like when you constantly turn shader on and off

after all my years of playing minecraft, it’s completely unbelievable how far this game has come

I'm an avid Bethesda game player and modder, my mind was blown until you said LOD's, and then I was like oh well yeah duh. It's such an archaic of long distance rendering but it almost always proves to be better than full rendering.

Bro as goofy as the "chunks" setting looks, it also has a real charm to it. I feel like if Minecraft had always had that as a way to see distant chunks where they're kind of just averaged together, we would all be used to it and think nothing more of it.

What resource pack are you using for the UI? It looks really good

Can you make a video about all mods (or modpack i assume) in your mods folder? Love it!

When you play with distant horizons once, there is no going back. It is just too good to see your endless world and your buildings very far away.

Hey do you have a modlist for this video? I like the way your game was moving so I would like to know

i actually had an idea for a solution to the render distance near the horizon. one could be a world curvature effect, which could just bend the unrendered land over a fake horizon maybe? another solution would be the old minecraft fog effect,but just have it off way into the distance so it kinda softens the horizon

over a past 2 years minecraft is getting insanly good beating other games in my pov since I played this only for 4 years it helped me in every way possible and these are minecraft scientists that works for minecraft's good future well I still nostalgic after not playing this game for 2 years but this really made me fulfilled thanks minecraft community

There’s just videos about this left and right and right under my nose all the time! 😅

For anybody who is going to see this video toward the end and think the mod is a buggy mess: First, the mod is very highly experimental in it's beta. So is the shader, and especially the Iris mod. Second, this glitch only happens if you try to disable rendering while the shaders are on. If you want to disable anything always go in the order Shaders -> Rendering I'm sorry, but the part of the video where you try the different render distances (256, 500, 1500, 2000, 4000) is extremely misleading. The reason you weren't noticing a difference was because of 2 things: 1. The mod can't just instantly generate millions of LODs, it needs a lot of time to generate them, especially when they become very numerous after 128 chunks of render distance. You need to adjust the CPU usage to Aggressive and wait for hours, days or even WEEKS to generate enough to display the 4000 chunks render distance. That would also take up 10s or 100s of gigabytes of disk storage, as DH now stores it's LOD data as full resolution block ID 2. The shader mod adds fog that makes it difficult to see past 256 chunks during some parts of the day/night cycle in the game. This can be changed in the shader settings, of cource. Hope this helps.

Minecraft should have 64 chunks by default... without lod...

The chunk loading is actually such a vibe, it almost turns Minecraft into a liminal game

Even the chunk lods looks good because they feel stylistic in a complementary way to mc

Yo can you link your modlist, it looks amazing

its almost like minecraft is a technical mess and mojang should actually do some work to fix the game. of course, that'll never happen. the only time they've even vaguely pestered at updating the code was a naked attempt to push microtransactions into the game.

Imagine using that mod in a mega build world...boy that would be majestic

Nice video man, quick question. Whats your Bliss shader's settings? Do you have a config video somewhere maybe?

heads up though, this mod does work as intended and can be beautiful with out nuking your pc, but when you load it everything looks vanilla, then after about 5 minutes the first little bit loads, all in all to get the " infinite render distance " you have to let your game run and slowly load for between several hours to a couple of days.

I see alot of Distant Horizon videos now but I hear nobody talking about the mod "Bobby"? The mod has been around way longer than Distant Horizons and does almost the same but without graphical issues. If you want to generate chunks far away without needing to load them first, you can combine Nvidium + Bobby + C2ME (You need an Nvidium GPU tho), this then loads the chunks far away automatically. Bobby is pretty underrated. Oh and also, Distant Horizons uses LODs (like mentioned in the video) but Bobby instead saves those chunks so they look the same from every render distance. Distant Horizon instead makes the chunks far away look bad in detail if you zoom in.

Amazing 🤩

underrated youtuber

my laptop can't even handle more than 4 render distance bro

thes mod made us realised how small our world really was. we thought we had massive epic builds only to install Distant Horizons to feel like we were really just next door

Ah, just what I needed for my skyblock world

Yo bro your content is very high quality for the amount subscribers you have and also I wanted to know the GUI texture pack that you used

Not enough people talk about nvidium. It’s a paper add on that doesn’t use LOD’s but instead nvidia gpu mesh magic (?) to use vram and load many more chunks at once. It allows for full detail at very far distances (1000fps at 128 chunks) but requires a decent nvidia gpu.

you got alot of cool mods that ive never seen before, is there a modpack with all your mods? even if there isnt, rlly cool video

this is actually so good bc I use bliss shaders normally

Version 0.07 is coming out in a month or two. Hopefully, it will be stable and for minecraft version 1.20.4

I kinda see this being added in to the game in a future update. This mod REALLY shows you what minecraft is missing the most. Basic LOD.

@JohnnyGottaCraft what mod do you have that is showing the current world/biome in the centre of the screen?

It has now been added to Curseforge!

By the way, you can only ever see 3-4 miles away irl, which conveniently is 300-400 render distance. We are literally getting into the territory where we can see as far in Minecraft as the real world.

It has probably already been stated, but the smearing effect is related to CPU usage, at least for me it can't be set to "low" or "minimal". Set it to normal or balanced and it might start working for you

Now if only I could use Distant Horizons with shaders, Create, and Valkyrian skies, my dream of creating a steampunk utopia in Minecraft will be complete.

The chunk mode actually looks weirdly cool.

That glitch where the sky isn't rendering (and therefore the buffer isn't cleared resulting in that trippy visual) can be bandage "fixed" by turning off the Bliss shaderpack.

Ill be honest, i havent played minecraft without distant horizons ever since it came out and so did the bliss shaders for it. Genuine game changer. Edit: i also generally dont play without tectonic. Tectonic is perfect with distsnt horizons.

THe only expansions I've wanted from day 1 were bigger caves and further render distance. It's been a good year and some for me to say the least.

Time to add this to my allthemods9 server

since discovering distant gorizons i almost cabt handle not playing with it on. Kinda hoping on multiplayer support soon. The way it works in multiplayer now is fine but if it can send lod data to all the clients thats gonna be amazing

the reason why your lods were loading slowly is because in the settings, ur cpu load was low impact so it was using less cpu power, if you want it to load fast you have to increase it to like aggresive. Also what you loaded was actually not 1500 chunks, it was around 256 only, 1500 takes a lot of time and performance to load, when u rejoined the world it simply boosted the first few lod chunks to load

This is a pretty good video

just to note distant horizons wont force your server to send you extra chunks. DH instead will rememebr chunks you have been and wont unload them. this is why you see empty chunks,2 so get your elytra and go explore and fill out your world for distant horizons

distant horizons mod is super amazing. you can literally increase the view dist so its more then irl. it makes the flat earth look concave, somthing we dont observe in reality.

How this mod works is like that u need to actually visit the chunks for the mod to save them and show them later

DH generates a file in save folder which can be quite big. This area you rendered in the middle of video can take approximately 5gb. I'd assume that's why it takes quite a time to load

That's the future of minecraft in my opinion

This should be in the Base Game Such another world when you see 3 Times more

Ye, ive been seeing just lots of cinematics with this mod now.

Waiting already few months for release, thinking they will never release it

2:33 thank you

bro having the render distance be infinite changes the feel of minecraft so much

Now imagine if Cubic chunks got updated for newer versions and you use it, plus DH, plus shaders on a world with extreme generation.

I noticed that the problem with this mod is that the chunks need to be pre-loaded first. In other words, if you just spawned into a new world, the chunks that you never loaded will never show up in the distance. But if you flied/walked around the world for a bit and then returned to your spawn point, then you would see that the very distant chunks are still loaded in the background, making it look like you can see really far. It's a bit of a shame that the mod can't load the chunks that are really far in a low resolution and only increase the resolution when you get closer.

minecraft hasnt looked this good in a long time

did a little math and ~300 on the DH render distance should be about accurate in terms of how far you can see in real life (~3 miles in ideal conditions)

I wonder if this works with the VR mod. It really needs this because for some reason anything higher than a render distance of 8 makes it work incredibly slow

insane how lod's and a basic shader isn't in vanilla minecraft still

I just want this to work with mods. I will then install it instantly - Seeing my factory and our train station from afar... I would cry. :D Especially playing in VR....

Are you able to see structures you build really far away? Or does it use the seed generation of the world to show the "original" chunks?