Tessera V1

By
GamingTECH

GPU driven terrain renderer for Fabric. Draws chunks with Vulkan mesh shaders and culls hidden terrain on the GPU, Nanite-style. NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. Up to 55% more FPS than vanilla in our tests.

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Tessera-0.1.0.jar

File nametessera-0.1.0.jar

Uploader: GamingTECH
Uploaded: Oct 21, 2026
Downloads: 14
Size: 143.0 KB
Mod Loaders: Fabric
File ID: 9283034
Type: R
Release

Supported game versions

26.2

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Curse Maven Snippet

Fabric

modImplementation "curse.maven:tessera-v1-1758709:9283034"

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Requirements

Minecraft 26.2
Fabric Loader 0.19.5 or newer, and Fabric API
Java 25
The Vulkan graphics API selected in Video Settings
A GPU with mesh shaders (see above), on Windows or Linux

Installation

Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API for Minecraft 26.2.
Put Tessera in your mods folder.
Start the game, open Options → Video Settings → Graphics API, choose Prefer Vulkan (Experimental), then restart Minecraft.
Open a world and press F3. Under the chunk stats you should see a line starting with Tessera terrain:. If it's there, Tessera is drawing your world.

Configuration

config/tessera.properties is created on first launch:

Setting	Default	What it does
`enabled`	`true`	Turns the whole mod off (needs a restart).
`terrain`	`true`	`false` hands terrain back to vanilla.
`occlusion`	`auto`	Hidden-terrain culling: `on`, `off`, or `auto` (on from render distance 24).
`arenaMiB`	`512`	GPU memory reserved for terrain at start; grows automatically.
`vulkanHint`	`true`	Shows the one-time "switch to Vulkan" message.