Fantastically Optimized Forge

A serie of Forge-based Minecraft modpacks focusing on performance and gameplay enhancements - Based off Fabulously Optimized for Fabric.

I'm currently looking for people to help developing and testing these modpacks. Any contribution is appreciated!

Why remake this on Forge?

Even though, in recent years, Fabric has seen the biggest contributions regarding optimizations for modded scenarios, there's still a pretty large amount of players that use Forge. These modpacks are made for them.

The idea of these modpacks is not to replace all Forge packs. Hopefully, this will work as an addition for already-existing modpacks and Vanilla players, so once you download the mods available in here, you can just drop them onto your main mods folder, and see significant performance improvements, or if you're just a Vanilla player, install one of these packs, and see major improvements over just Vanilla/Optifine.

Why support 1.12.2 & 1.16.5?

Ironically, the people that most need these kind of packs are also the ones less likely to be able to use them. Modern Minecraft can be insanely heavy for low-end devices, and even when using a ton of optimization mods, there are still lots of people unable to play Minecraft correctly past 1.16.5 (And in some cases, even struggle past 1.12.2).

Supported versions roadmap	Supported?
1.12.2	❔¹
1.16.5	❔¹
1.19.3	❔

¹ May lack constant updates or major features present in other versions

✅ - Stable and supported

❎ - Unstable but supported

❗ - Unstable and unsupported

❔ - In progress

Benchmarks

These tests are only made for comparison purposes and should not be used as expected results for each person's setup. All tests were done within the same world seed.

Startup time

Version	Without FOF	With FOF	Optifine	FO Fabric
1.12.2	44s	55s
1.16.5
1.19.3

Average FPS - 1000 Entities

Version	Without FOF	With FOF	Optifine	FO Fabric
1.12.2
1.16.5
1.19.3

Average FPS - Pre-generated exploration

Version	Without FOF	With FOF	Optifine	FO Fabric
1.12.2
1.16.5
1.19.3

• FO Fabric: Fabulously Optimized Fabric, if applicable for the version
• FOF: Fantastically Optimized Forge
• Seed: THISISARANDOMSEEDLOL

Known issues

• 1.12.2:

1. Nothirium causes OptiFine's DynamicLights to not work at all.

• 1.16.5:

• 1.19.3:

You think I'm stupid?

Thanks, so do I. But anyways, before you go to admincraft and start smacktalking these modpacks because of Optifine or whatever, I want you to (1) test them first, and (2) contact me either from an issue request or via Discord. I'm very reasonable and would really like to hear any critiques that you may have as long as they have a real proven base.

Disclaimers

1. Even tho I do support Forge, I highly encourage switching to Fabric when it's applicable for your use case.
2. I'll try my best to support Forge 1.12.2 & 1.16.5, but since these versions are no longer supported by most mod authors (And by the Forge team themselves), many features and optimizations of the modpack in newer versions may be missing.
3. The fact that different versions are supported doesn't mean that the pack itself will be any similar between Minecraft versions. I'll try to bring as much feature-parity as possible, but since the main purpose of this modpack is to optimize your game, if there are any features that have to be replaced/completely removed in order to bring performance improvements, I won't hesitate to prioritize better performance.
4. In order to bring as many features or optimizations as possible, some of the packs may use incomplete/unstable versions of some mods.
5. This is not a direct fork of Fabulously Optimized for Fabric nor is officially supported by its author. If you have any issues while using one of the Fabulously Optimized for Forge modpacks, please make an issue request in this repository.
6. In the event that any of these modpacks end up making the overall experience (Especially performance) worse than compared to just using Optifine, it's very likely that I'll just drop support for that specific version(s).
7. The only real reason why the name and logos are based off Fabulously Optimized it's because that way I can get more attention (Very smart, I know).
8. This is obviously a hobby kind of project that might never even get to the first release states, so please don't hate me forever if I never end up launching this and you run Minecraft on a potato that'd be really benefited from these kinds of modpacks.