
HeXHub.net optimized | Potato
Distant Horizons–ready client pack with optional shaders, optimized for very weak PCs and laptops, compatible with unmodded multiplayer.
Описание
About
A client-side Fabric pack for vanilla multiplayer. It changes no gameplay, adds no items and needs nothing installed on the server — you can join any vanilla or Paper server with it, modded or not.
Built and tested for HeXHub.net, so it is preconfigured for that network out of the box. Nothing ties it to HeXHub, though; it works just as well anywhere else.
What's inside
- Performance — Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, EntityCulling, More Culling by FX and friends, plus render scaling to trade resolution for frames.
- View distance — Distant Horizons renders terrain far past the chunk limit your server hands out. On weak hardware this is the single biggest visual gain available.
- Shaders (optional) — off by default. E-LITE by Entokito, based on MakeUp – Ultra Fast by Javier Garduño, is included via Iris to try on low settings, with MakeUp – Ultra Fast as an alternative. Expect lower frame rates.
- Voice — proximity voice chat via Simple Voice Chat (needs the server to run it — HeXHub does).
- Interface — Xaero's minimap and world map, tooltips via Jade, hunger and saturation via AppleSkin, a readable F3 screen, zoom, free look.
- Input — full controller support via Controlify.
- Menu — custom main menu: one click to join HeXHub.net, live server status, panoramas from the network, links to Discord, Wiki, live map and Twitch. Follows your game language (German or English).
- Fixes — Debugify fixes over 70 bugs from Mojang's bug tracker.
Same mod list as the other editions, minus everything that costs frames: shaders off by default, no extra particles, no atmospheric or audio mods.
Full mod list on the Versions tab.
Fair play
This pack is meant to be usable on servers that ban cheat clients, so it stays on the right side of that line by default:
- The minimap ships without cave view, entity radar or anything else that shows you what you could not see yourself.
- Free look turns your head without moving you. No freecam, no spectator mode, nothing that detaches the camera from your body.
- The locator bar only shows what the server chooses to send.
- Nothing that automates play.
Fair-play settings are the defaults, not a lock. If you change them, that is between you and the server you play on.
Settings
Everything is preconfigured — graphics, map, utilities — so the pack works out of the box.
Keybinds are cleaned up only where mods collide. Vanilla keys and the keys you actually use stay where you expect them; minor mod keys get moved or unbound. Gameplay options stay at vanilla defaults; master volume and mouse sensitivity start at 50 %.
YOSBR keeps your own settings across updates. Pack defaults apply only on a fresh install, or when a new mod arrives without an existing config.
About Distant Horizons
Distant Horizons builds its long-range terrain from chunks you have loaded, so the view keeps growing as you explore — and stays that way on your next visit. It needs nothing on the server side.
This edition — Potato
For very weak PCs and old laptops. Every setting is chosen for frames first: the game renders at 70 % resolution by default, and you can raise that in the RenderScale settings if your machine can take it.
Reference machine: notebook with i7-7200U, integrated graphics, 8 GB RAM
Which edition?
| Target | Shaders | Reference device | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potato (this one) | old laptops, weak PCs | optional (off) | i7-7200U, 8 GB |
| Handheld | handhelds, entry-level PCs | yes | Steam Deck OLED |
| Enhanced | gaming PCs | yes | RTX 3070, 32 GB |
The core mod list is shared across editions — what differs is the preconfiguration, and which visual and audio mods are included at all.
Minecraft versions
Currently 26.2. The pack focuses on the Minecraft version HeXHub.net runs and follows the server when it updates.
Status
Alpha. Under active development, updated often, expect the occasional rough edge. Feedback is welcome on Discord.
License and attribution
Mods are not redistributed by this pack — your launcher downloads them from their original authors, under their own licenses.
Only the pack's own files (configs, assets, texts) are covered by this project's MIT license.


