CaveSpeedThing

MC 1.12.2 // CLEANROOM

tl;dr

world gen on 1.12.2 is slow because BetterCaves does everything on one thread like it's 2019 and cores don't exist. this mixins that into actually using your CPU.

what this mod actually does

multithreaded carving, cave + cavern noise runs on a dedicated ForkJoinPool instead of one thread
vanilla noise, NoiseGeneratorOctaves parallelized too, when it's worth it
biome lookups, cached ID-based lookups instead of vanilla's slow registry walk, for BetterCaves + BetterMineshafts
corner noise dedup, shared corners between a chunk's carving cells get computed once, not up to 4x
crash-safe (i hope lol, no im kidding), errors fall back to single-thread carving instead of taking your world down

~2.8x faster cave/cavern carving vs vanilla BetterCaves, from a very unprofessional single-run test (small pack, no averaging, take it with a grain of salt).

Also stress-tested compatibility by clean-booting alongside a 400-mod pack at 16 render distance; no Mixin conflicts, startup crashes, or worldgen issues observed.

config

min CPU threads before parallel noise kicks in
optional debug logging for the mineshaft biome cache hit rate — off by default, only useful if you're chasing a perf issue

requirements

1.12.2 / Cleanroom (uses Cleanroom's native Mixin/MixinBooter, this is NOT a regular Forge jar) / BetterCaves + BetterMineshafts installed (this is mixins on top of them, not a replacement)

server-side (client doesn't care, but put it wherever, it's harmless)

install

jar in mods/
launch
caves generate faster, world doesn't explode

why this exists / where it's at

goal was basically: optimize YUNG's Better Caves + Better Mineshafts as much as i reasonably could, because on my modpack they were eating a stupid amount of heap/CPU during worldgen. spent about 5 days on this on and off. i'm not gonna sit here and tell you it's the greatest mod ever, but at this point i think i've hit diminishing returns, everything left on the table is probably another 2-3%, maybe, and getting more would mean actually touching BetterCaves/BetterMineshafts source instead of mixin-ing around it, which i don't want to do.

should be compatible with basically everything, including stuff like Celeritas, but i haven't tested every combo under the sun.

if it crashes or does something weird: profile it yourself with flare first if you can, then paste the log via https://mclo.gs/ in the comments and I'll take a look when I get to it. peace out.

// ≈ "works on my machine."