🛡️ Heracles

Technical optimization mod focused on drastically reducing MSPT, alleviating CPU load, and stabilizing memory.

🛠️ Optimization Features

• Crowd Control: Optimization of collision tests and movement events to reduce lag in dense areas (players/entities).
• AI Throttling: Dynamic regulation of CPU load consumed by mob AI.
• Explosion Caching: Caching of explosion calculations to prevent lag spikes during massive destructions.
• Block Entity Stasis: Puts block entities (furnaces, chests, etc.) into sleep mode when out of player range.
• Multi-threading: Offloading of AI calculations and network management onto Virtual Threads.
• Network Management (QoS): Packet prioritization system and rate limiting to prevent bandwidth saturation.
• Async Furnace Ticking: Asynchronous processing of furnace smelting to free up the main loop.

📦 Test Environment (Optimization Modpack)

To prove its relevance, Heracles was tested on NeoForge 1.21.1 within a modpack that already included current optimization standards. Heracles is designed to be layered on top of these mods, offering additional performance gains:

• Rendering Engine & Graphics: Sodium, Iris, Distant Horizons, ImmediatelyFast, EntityCulling, Dynamic FPS, MoreCulling.
• Logic & Memory: Lithium, ModernFix, FerriteCore, Krypton, Create Better FPS.

📊 Spark Profiling (60-Player Test)

The following data was recorded under real conditions using the modpack listed above, with 60 simultaneously connected players and approximately 375 active entities.