The Downfall Of Minecraft's Performance

Minecraft used to be a game which could be run on virtually any pc, but sadly this is not the case anymore. In this video we show how the performance of this game has changed in the last 10 years.

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Lord Jon25 March 2023

[antiLGTBQ]

fun fact: minecraft renders EVERYTHING in FULL DETAIL no matter how far it is. it’s mind blowing how a top 3 game of all time still has a major flaw covered in video games 101.

edit: watch the video before you comment "but blocks are easy to render!!1!" lmao did you even look at the title

[jyko]

What I learned from this video: small and independent code/game/mod developers are somehow always one step ahead of multi-milion dollar companies.

[alexeipino]

Holy shit somebody finally knows the real problem

Also, if they make a "performance update" people will complain for the lack of content, I saw it when 1.15 released. The fact its stupid people who do so doesnt mean they wont

[amirmirzaei]

I actually love how you list where you got each meme clip.
something that no one does but I greatly respect it when someone like you does.

[Charlie-hvdh]

It is insane how awful the performance is. This game used to be something nearly anything could play to be honest, but now it's so awful.
I'm sorry but like the fact that the bedrock was supposed to "be better optimized" yet it performs worse then java, and is the reason java updates take so long to come out is so annoying.

[Arlondev]

The fans: hey can you make the game run better?

Mojang: We added bees

The fans: yeah, that's cool, but can you make the game run better?

Mojang: We added axolotls

The fans: yeah but that doesn't make the game run better-

Mojang: We fucking doubled the world size on the Y axis

The fans: But surely you added some performance-

Mojang: NOW WE'RE GOING TO MAKE AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT GAME AND NOT EVEN TOUCH MINECRAFT'S PERFORMANCE!

The fans: why are you like this

[hanro]

1.13 had a rewrite to the rendering engine. They also made it do chunks needed to be written synchronously instead of asynchronously.

[Samstercraft]

i love how the cod is flopping around during the lag demo at the start. great video and great editing! i 100% agree with what you say.

1.12.2 is also the version i play the most lol. it has a ton of great modpacks. same with 1.7.10

for example gregtech new horizons a pack with so much more stuff than vanilla that i thought it would be impossible for my computer to even make the world, it has much better fps than 1.19.x vanilla. this is incredibly funny.

[somepepperonyoutube]

while, yes, i absolutely LOVE the new changes minecraft has gotten gameplay-wise, i really think it's time for a performance update. the game really shouldn't be loading in textures hundreds of blocks below you, especially with all of the new textured content. deep dark update? one of my favorite updates to a game in recent memory. should it require rendering in hundreds of sensors with their own animation every time someone walks over a city? idk about everyone else, but i like my laptop like i like my houses, not burnt to the ground

[Random_Person.-.]

Honestly my biggest problem with the newer Minecraft updates is that they add so many borderline useless features that just feel like padding while not improving on flaws in the existing game like the performance and combat.

[miwiki]

the 1.17 update literally added unplayable lag to the Java edition and i hate mojang for it.

[Dragonia]

as someone who has an 8yo laptop (roughly), ive defineatly noticed the drop in performance. Nowdays i absolutely rely on mods to play the game - and even then i cant play singleplayer and have to utilise services like aternos to run a server for myself (i cant afford to pay for one).

[TurboWheeler]

I started on 1.16 and had no lag whatsoever. Starting at 1.17 is when I began experiencing various lag intensities unless I was underground.

[FoXMaSteR]

I made strong researchs on why this new versions of Minecraft lag. In fact this is due to the size of the chunks, since they doubled the height of each of them the cpu needs more time to load them, exactly twice more. It means any player with 100fps immediatly has 50 now. Then they added more types of blocks, this require more cpu usage too. Then the big problem is the giant caves, when you generate new chunk the underground lava appears too, and the game generate them by step, every lava waterfall must "fall" the first time you generate it, and this cause massive lag. Water does the same and when it genereates it breaks blocks in the process (rails, plants, etc), all these items are floating and moving with this water on each new chunk... I checked it with a tool, for each part of the world you load with a render distance of 8 it generates 80 to 500 items that needs 5 minutes to vanish. That's why we have lag spikes. The idea is to generate the world and wait until these items disappear but you have to keep them visible to make them vanish, so without tools to erase these useless item you'll need time to walk in your world until they are all gone. It's broken. Sodium is good because it can "deload" these item from a certain distance, but sometimes they'll still appear and being render, causing lag spikes. The only way I've found is to play on servers that run on super computers, to let this process running and reduce the distance of render to 2 chunks only. I had 150fps before these update, now I struggle to get more than 40 with all tricks possible, without these mods I would be stuck to 5 or 6 fps. So yeah, minecraft is dying because of that. I suggest to set the render distance to minimum and use Distant Horizon to keep "fake chunks" loaded in memory for a few ram usage. The fact Mojang is adding new mobs is dangerous because these mods (like bees) cause lag. You can also use tools to generate a world without caves. The new minecraft launcher is also a problem, I need 5 minutes to launch the game while it should take a few seconds. This is due to the RAM usage, for some reason it seems the game check every file at start, it'll load every mob and texture everytime instead of doing it while we play. This mean you suddently need at least 4gb RAM to play it while 1.5gb was enough before. For devices with only 8gb playing this game is now tricky, not impossible but it requires knowledge of mods and customizations, meaning any kid trying the game today could give up due to bad performances. It's a big problem to keep the game alive.

[bennettdaniel]

If Mojang's recent behavior is anything to go by, there's not much hope that they'll put any effort in to optimizing the game. They're more focused on being diverse and inclusive, and haven't even added anything that actually improved gameplay since the Nether Update. It's all up to the modding community to keep Minecraft great.

[callozxn]

I used to have a PC that was just an Intel i5-8500 with integrated graphics, 8GB RAM and a simple 128GB SSD. I had that for about 4 years, and Minecraft was one of the main games I played since about 2011. I had a solid 70-90fps average around 2016-2017 on that thing, but around 2019 I saw my FPS was averaging about 30-40, I had cleaned out my PC and done a refresh, but nothing changed. I adjusted settings, nothing. I eventually did get the PC I have now with an i5-12400F and a RTX 3060 TI, which I now have about 300FPS+ on average, but I’m still noticing spikes down to like 50FPS when doing certain things. It isn’t regular, it happens probably every 1-2 hours, but still, a PC with those specs shouldn’t even experience THAT kinda lag running MINECRAFT. It’s just weird at this point.

[ExtraNacho-wgyg]

Wow the funny part is that i thought that it was just my pc being slow, nice to know it isnt just me lol

[Spectrum.Io_oI]

Minecraft 1.21 be the performance update.. have a petition on that..

[eugenenalpin]

I'm sorry, don't want to be that guy, but at 4:43 you said that Caves & Cliffs released November 2020, when in fact it released November 2021, it's only like just over a year old lol

[Bigclover]

I sure do love it when the only topic ever sugar coated and over mentioned in a video is good old computer science 😊👍😀.