🛡️ Heracles

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

Available on NeoForge

🛠️ 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.

Metric	With Base Modpack	With Modpack + Heracles	Gain Provided by Heracles
TPS	20.00	20.00	Stable
MSPT (Median)	34.5 ms	21.3 ms	-38% server load
MSPT (Max Peak)	167 ms	122 ms