Minecraft Will Never Be The Same

Distant Horizons is an incredible mod for Minecraft that is basically the future of the game...
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[@stephunhowung9858]

This is how Minecraft looked in my mind when I played as a kid.

[@Kiwi-Araga]

Nah, for me, it was bright and ugly, but very fun. It started to look better overtime time, but there's no way I ever called the Alpha version anything but ugly, yet a lot of fun.

[@KepleroGT]

I never played above 8 chunks and it showed tbh, having played it for all of 2012-2016 and a little bit during covid. I heard about this mod but I didn't know when it would be ready to be usable on fabric

[@jacobwilliams676]

I’m not crying you are

[@MicroWavesGaming]

FACTS!!!

[@BlackRedDead1943]

damn, back in the beta days, i wouldn't have doubted it could EVER look like this! xD

[@FieryN8]

The one thing that always blows my mind is thinking back to how almost all of us first experienced the game; single digit render distance with heavy fog

[@treanttrooper6349]

I rember, early Alpha was a vibe man, the art we used to build, recreations of buildings when we got better render distances, then getting survival in A1.5 and now look at it.... It will forever astound me at how far it's come I will always miss that first year though

[@VaygrX]

It gave it a whole different vibe and atmosphere. There weren´t villagers or most of the mobs we have today. You felt isolated and the heavy fog made it so that you were always wondering what could be lurking beyond it. Kinda miss that tbh, but modern Minecraft is still great in its own way.

[@LinkandGavin]

I was the free IOS version when demos were popular for games. Could only build with bricks 🥲

[@MrOlympuse410]

wasn't even done by numbers of chunks back in the day, it was tiny, normal and far

[@LordBeef]

Yup! On a laptop I got for middle school with 4 gb of RAM 😂 And then I played Tekkit on it so my performance would suffer even more lol

[@brickstonesonn9276]

Minecaft's modding community is honestly insane. Its to the point that its not really even just adding features & whatnot anymore, they're literally improving the back-end code of the game. I cant think of any modding community that's on that level. Maybe modders of Valve games, i dunno Edit: It's hard to compare modding communities or any creative fandom in general to one another, because people almost always only deeply know one side of the argument and never both.

[@hannibalthecannibal4818]

Stalker lol. They rebuilt the engine into Anomaly. Basically combines all of the games, rebuilds and redesigns basically all of the systems and adds a bunch of new stuff.

[@Lonely_Goat]

samw ith dayz on PC the base game is ok but the modded vanilla servers are brilliant, new maps, the best gaming map of all time is on dayz ''Namalsk''. origianl game has 2 maps and now the modders gave it 50 plus maps, really thou Namalsk is such a beautiful map

[@andrewmaclean9810]

Skyrim perhaps. But thats about it.

[@Woobieeee]

its the most successful game ever made. Not really surprising.

[@Karma-cj1wu]

@@andrewmaclean9810what i thought

[@pilotembgamers4644]

Modders: Here, have free revolutionary game changing mods Mojang: We added dog armor, take it or leave it lol.

[@comboing3108]

They also overhauled the pvp meta, added an entire new system for bad omen, and created pretty much one of the best updates since 1.18

[@higueraft571]

@@comboing3108 Also dont forget that they've done some optimization too (unfortunately one of THE most disliked things in the community, an update without "more masses of content shoved down facehole" clearly visible)

[@Broockle]

@@comboing3108 ah yes, the prestigious pvp mode that I'm just hearing of for the first time 😅 Isn't Minecraft mostly played on servers with minigames these days?

[@fldom4610]

minecraft isnt supposed to be a high graphic game. So keeping it as a mod is good

[@thenightninja13]

@@fldom4610 Not sure where this idea comes from. Yes, the game is supposed to be simple and accessible. That being said, visual aesthetics are okay to change because the game is still simple and accessible. As tech continues to improve, so to will graphical engines, allowing things that weren't possible before. Minecraft was made with the limitations it has because of what was available at the time.

[@Crackerjack917]

hearing lvlcap talk about wanting to play with his is son in minecraft feels like i've reached the end of a circle. years ago i was a kid watching his content, now im an adult watching his content - congrats man, hope your son enjoys the mod and the game!

[@mitt993]

Was about to comment the same thing. Can't believe I've been here since the BF3 days.

[@sicktory6334]

watching this video and reading the comments is just so wholesome. Like there is no negativity on here and I love it

[@O-Tomic]

These comments make my depression spike lol

[@Xmarkthings]

dude im literally just getting a high end PC just so i can play minecraft with the best graphics 👁️🫦👁️👌🏼❤️

[@SpacemanXC]

@@mitt993 BF3 and airsoft. Great times.

[@AlanW]

One wonders why Mojang has no interest in optimizations.

[@valentyn_154]

Because that doesn't help sell the game. The same reason we don't have quality of life update, that's not marketable as "new mobs, new biomes, new tools, new blocs" it's a marketing bias, not a will of the development/ design team

[@topiaslaitinen8290]

L comment, compare the performance on modern versions to a 2014 version

[@Key-Knight87]

@@topiaslaitinen8290 Shit then, even shittier now lol.

[@Key-Knight87]

@@topiaslaitinen8290 It was bad then too lmao

[@AlanW]

@@valentyn_154 Yes, sorry, it was a rhetorical question. You are 100% correct.

[@itsRobbie_]

I very rarely audibly say "wow" while seeing a mod for a game or a shader mod or whatever else, but wow this mod is incredible. I was saying wow at almost every shot

[@seeibe]

When I first discovered that shader mods exist in 2020, I definitely said "wow"

[@DrFaex]

Should be noted that shader compatibility (Iris) with DH is still in early beta and is prone to crashes and bugs, and it's only available in the mod's discord. The modders recommend waiting until full release

[@Koersky]

Is there any expected time for full release?

[@DrFaex]

@@Koersky Not currently

[@proxmitikgames]

@@DrFaex So just do it, and hope you dont crash every few minutes, if it's a crash every few hours I can live with it

[@Kennyancat]

@@proxmitikgames I've played for quite a while now and with no crashes. I have seen a few graphical glitches in the wayway far distance. Cranked it 512 chuncks so not really surprised there haha.

[@proxmitikgames]

@@Kennyancat AY, good to know, ty

[@MatthewCornish]

This is stunning but Mojang should have been the ones making their rendering engine better... so I'm incredibly thankful to the modding community for things like shaders and distant horizons

[@elongated_musket6353]

The problem is that Minecraft Java is full of spaghetti code and is an unoptimized hell, especially when Mojang was bought by Microsoft. It runs terribly on low spec PCs without a bunch of optimization mods. Its also the reason why Mojang created Bedrock. Its essentially an entirely new game backend-wise, and why it doesnt have features Java has (but very optimised and stable).

[@fiqirr]

​@@elongated_musket6353 Distant Horizons (one guy at first) pulled it off without access to that code. Its not an excuse tbh

[@pupip55]

​@@elongated_musket6353 the difference is that modders don't have source code, so they have to reverse engineer the code.

[@AlanW]

Agreed, Mojang has had something like 10 years to sort this out, but just hasn't, They don't seem to care, people buy it anyway, and they have outsourced the optimization problem to the modders.

[@pupip55]

@@elongated_musket6353 the difference is that modders don't have source code, so they have to reverse engineer the code.

[@ivvan497]

God damn it. I first played minecraft back in elementary school, in like 2011 when it came out. It looked so bad compared to today. Looking at this gives me kind nostalgia about my own childhood and how minecraft was just starting out. Honestly, I'm really happy for this game, it came so far since 2011. Today I'm looking at this game like that one special toy you had when you were a kid that you will always remember. The memories man... 🥲

[@lamsmiley1944]

I played the web based demo that Notch made before the Java version, it’s certainly improved since then.

[@no_alias_for_me]

@@lamsmiley1944 dude yeah me too, like in 2009 or something. I was 15 at the time and I played deep into the night almost every day. Made me fail a couple tests in school but it was so fkng fun. Kinda weird that this was 15 years ago...

[@realdregu]

it’s insane because it’s not even mojang themselves that makes it so good. the community makes a better game out of minecraft than the devs themselves.

[@Brekfastmachine]

Oof, I feel old. I was in my 30s back then. Still played a ton of Minecraft. 😃

[@mfjaages]

Started playing in 2014 on 1.7. Been playing the game since

[@ThatGuyyApollo]

The level of beauty seeing the landscape in the distance is on par with Red Dead Redemption 2. Playing RDR2 I get lost so easily just staring into the distance and know that I can physically go there and interact with the place I’m looking at right now. So being able to see all those chunks in the distance with the shaders mod, man never thought blocks would be so pretty.

[@lemmefeelyerjibblets8856]

I was thinking the same exact thing! This gives me the same feeling as RDR2 does when looking off into the horizon.

[@Soliye.]

First time I felt this way was playing Just Cause 2. This mod is encapsulating the jaw dropping look these games had through our kid eyes.

[@Slavolko]

@@Soliye. Oh man, Just Cause 2 was really ahead of its time. Truly amazing with its vast landscapes.

[@shhyeehaha]

lol okay now chill

[@tigerleon10]

Now imagine GTA 6

[@pilotembgamers4644]

For those that are curious about how it looks in VR I’ve tried it. Unfortunately you really notice the drastically lower block detail when the distant horizon is rendered in. It’s amplified a lot in VR. To be fair it’s not meant for VR. Hopefully in the future that’ll change cause it’s an incredible mod. For flat screen, levelcap is spot on. it’s an absolute game changer. The distant horizon blends in so well with the rendered world. It’s stunning to get this at little to no fps hit. Really shows the vastness of your Minecraft world. Edit: With the latest update, VR compatible shaders BSL and Complementary can now be used with DH! It is beautiful in VR.

[@OmniMC]

did you run it with shaders or just DH by itself?

[@pilotembgamers4644]

@@OmniMCI tried both with and without shaders. Bliss shader seen in this video, I tried but wasn’t compatible in VR. I used BSL Shader which worked.

[@cola98765]

@@OmniMC Bliss f's up the depth perception in VR, idk if there are any compatible shaders honestly.

[@bablela26]

You can increase the quality of the LOD, it's at medium by default, there 2 more higher settings

[@user-ce1pw5bp1m]

If you use a shader with far away blur it may look better

[@abrahamsanchez5509]

I’m installing this! Fantastic, literally this game is alive today because of its abundance of FREE content and the games huge community support.

[@tinypixiebread]

Who could have guessed a game about exploration needed to let you see where you are exploring was important for over 10 years

[@chiaracoetzee]

I haven't really played Minecraft in years but when I saw this I had to install it. And I am just... blown away, moved to tears, it's so beautiful. Being able to stand on a hilltop and look into the distance, see the distant rivers and mountain peaks, and then being able to really *go* there, to those distant places, and build anything I want there, and look back in the distance on the hilltop that I came from... it's a completely unprecedented experience. I'm at a loss for words.

[@NOT_a_skinwalker]

i've been gaming for three decades, to see this level of new tech being applied to older games really makes me glad. as a kid i only dreamt of games reaching levels that we've already surpassed

[@abdallahhakeem5185]

As far as I know, LoDs as used in the mod Distant Horizons here, have been around the entire time, and is how games like Skyrim and GTA have been able to make the open world a thing. But yes, nonetheless, it’s really satisfying and inspiring to see the community work towards implementing all of this. To have the community push the boundaries of limitations so far ahead is wondrous! I hope that they keep it up, and that the devs take note too!

[@ZaneDragonBorn]

Was gonna say "no way, did Mojang finally learn to code more than one line per year!" And then he said mods...

[@mossy8419]

They do a lot of other stuff behind the scenes, but most of it is just refactoring existing code in ways that make switching versions when modding unnecessarily difficult

[@ZaneDragonBorn]

@mossy8419 you can make it sound more complex if you want, but you can't defend a company 100+ devs that releases game updates the size of what they do in the timeframe they have. Its one of the most inactive studios around.

[@abdallahhakeem5185]

@@ZaneDragonBornYeah, though the guy above you highlighted correctly how they make modding harder But imagine if they focused on optimization a lot more, the game would be much more capable, and modding would have a lot more room to work with. People could play on much higher end shaders and resource packs, or at the very least not need a mid-high end gaming computer to be able to run at a consistent frame rate with them Kinda disappointing, feels like they’re just working at a minimum rate just to justify their jobs and keep expectations low

[@higueraft571]

@@ZaneDragonBorn >100+ devs Are they actual devs? Or are you counting Marketing and Customer Support? :V Also keep in mind: 1 - Bedrock Team drags ass, they have to wait for the version infamous for being SEVERAL MAJOR RELEASES behind until the two were forcefully Sync'd. 2 - Microsoft Execs decide every feature that gets added, what doesnt get added, and in cases like the Mob Vote, how to add it. I believe one of the Developers (before the tweet was deleted) had fucked up and let slip that 80% of the "development time" is actually just fighting their bosses/bureaucratic bullshit, and not actually touching the game. Though, considering the Java Team's clear dislike around the Copper Bulb being changed, and what they said prior, i'm going to bet that was ALSO Corporate Meddling. Something something "Bedrock doesnt want to lack parity and they dont want to change their code much can you remove this unique feature of copper bulbs for Bedrock Edition plz? I expect it by tomorrow btw"

[@chickentenderlover2412]

@@higueraft571weird way to say the same thing as his last sentence

[@AtomicPuma9]

Honestly I’ve always came back to Minecraft, nothing has ever driven me away from the game. Just that new games come out, I play through those then eventually you get the itch to go back and start again in Minecraft. Especially modded Minecraft, with 100+ mod packs that have quests and takes you through the game in a whole new light. Every modpack feels different, a whole new game sometimes and it’s only getting better with time. This is astounding to see that we’ve come this far in tech that a game that’s 12 years old can look just as good as some of the releases today. Even though the blocky look to the game stays the same it just looks good.

[@Miraine12]

Isn't the game 15 years old? (2024 - 2009?)

[@higueraft571]

@@Miraine12 Only if you count the pre-Release versions. Release-wise, it's 2011-2024 (13 years now, but close enough)

[@Desitos]

I've been a proponent for Distant Horizons for sooooo long now I'm so happy it's gaining so much steam.

[@jringler.medien]

man, i got tears in my eyes, watching you telling you are going to play with your son minecraft is enough to make a young man cry one of my fondest memorys is playing minecraft as a kid and watching your bf3 gameplay videos while i was saving up to buy it as well. Man, those were the golden times. Great Video as always. Thank you for everything since my sub on 28.11.2013❤️ This made my day

[@arog7493]

Mojang needs to hire this guy.

[@Lurkspur]

Mojang doesn’t exist anymore. It’s all Microsoft wether you like to believe it or not…

[@arog7493]

@@Lurkspur What do you mean? Mojang Studios still exist and work on developing Minecraft, they are just owned by Microsoft. No?

[@happygofishing]

Mojang doesnt care about java, they just care about their cashcow microtransaction bedrock shitware.

[@orionSpacecraft]

MOJANG HIRE THIS MAN!

[@aerostorm_]

@@arog7493 Yeah they still "work" on the game. However whether its Microsoft or Mojang, nothing gets done anymore. The largest updates since the sale of Mojang (right around the 1.8 update) was the release of the combat update (1.9) and the Nether+Caves and Cliffs updates (1.16-1.18). Outside of some server improvements made by hiring server plugin developers from the peak days of the game, everything else has just been novel additions to the same base game. It seems like none of the team has any real technical skill to make large optimizations to the existing game and that has been left to modders. Even Microsofts Bedrock team which was supposed to re-write the game to be more performant and more moddable, and instead left us with a buggy mess that isn't even up to date with the Java version in many ways.

[@635574]

This is what optimization does to a game:

[@Godmode_ON24]

Oh nice, I see Distant Horizons is really gaining some traction lol. The funny thing is they rebuilt Minecraft for consoles in DX12 and didn't even do anything like this, meanwhile one guy added LODs in the hard to work with Java version. Shaders, RT, 120 fps, none of that is in bedrock edition on consoles. Another mod that works really well with this is ReTerraforged. It changes the terrain generation so that there are bigger biomes with larger mountains, lakes, etc. It really brings out the larger view distance. Unfortunately that mod is also still under development, but once all these mods fully come out, things will get crazy. It's literally like Minecraft 2.

[@higueraft571]

Because Bedrock Edition is built for a shitty smartphone, not a console let alone a PC, it's struggling already on the phones, it doesnt need Distant Horizons to nuke it (also assuming Bedrock Edition even works properly, which it doesnt) :V

[@Godmode_ON24]

@@higueraft571 it seems to run fine of PC. It can do more that triple the max render distance of Java edition. I'm sure if they toned that down they could have added a similar LOD effect to Bedrock edition.

[@higueraft571]

@@Godmode_ON24 >it seems to run fine of PC. As mentioned, it's Smartphones which basically crash and burn, not PC, they're the minimum specs (and boy are they minimum...) :V

[@thesaurusrext]

1:59 thing is, when it first came out, that vanilla view was still nonetheless amazing to us all, just as this new advancement is. Very cool.

[@alperaksoy1062]

I always wanted to have friends to play minecraft. I did have some friends who played 3-4 hours with me but i never have a world that has many players in it so long that when you are exploring you come across buildings your friends made, caves your friends dig etc. It was always my dream. Seeing these kind of minecraft videos always makes me emotional

[@Rangomeri]

i have a world like that

[@alperaksoy1062]

@@Rangomeri its good for you

[@SirCamWA]

Minecraft was always rendered using "chunks", but neat tech approach to accomplish this

[@tjpprojects7192]

Unless LevelCapGaming is knowledgeable about the development, his term, "chunks" is probably isn't the correct word, and if it is, it's probably referring to something different from normal chunks.

[@samuelargyropoulos1249]

He’s talking about “LOD chunks” as the developer calls them.

[@yous2244]

You clearly haven't watched the video. Levelcap said that countless times

[@higueraft571]

@@tjpprojects7192 >his term, "chunks" is probably isn't the correct word It's the term that Notch used.

[@tjpprojects7192]

@@higueraft571 "Chunk" refers specifically to the 16x16 groups of blocks that are loaded in Minecraft. If you want to get technical, nothing else should be called chunks, so what he's talking about aren't chunks.

[@keylime6]

The part about you sharing the game with your son really warmed my heart. Ever since I was 8, I’ve always been obsessed with this beautiful game. I hope one day I might be able to share that obsession with my kids. I hope your son enjoys Minecraft 🥹

[@Desenrad]

Flowstate is a super chill commentary Chanel that made a really cool modpack called “Better Adventure +” many OG players would love. Best way to play is to use his modpack and add DH into it. I used it as a base and made my dream way to play MC. Me and my nephews are having a blast rn. Just DH alone will give them memories for life.

[@JonYugen]

Me clicking this video thinking Mojang actually did something amazing finally

[@MikaelLevoniemi]

Well, they did make Minecraft.

[@Key-Knight87]

@@MikaelLevoniemi Like 10 years ago lol

[@MikaelLevoniemi]

@@Key-Knight87 It's quite different game today than what it was 10 years ago and they have never strayed from the path. MS on the other hand with bedrock has gone all the way microtransactions for everyone.

[@-Luucy-]

@@Key-Knight87 10? Try 14 lol

[@-Luucy-]

Exactly...I'm very disappointed that it turned out to be just a mod. I mean, it looks absolutely amazing and impressive (hence I'm mad lol), but damn…why isn't this already implemented in the base game?? Sigh...looks like I'll be staying away from Minecraft for a few more years then. Fortunately, I still have a lot of games to finish :)

[@MadScientistGuild]

Should have launched this in the winter that way you could warm the house

[@franciswilliam7694]

As I got older, I find myself no longer logging into minecraft to play the game, nowadays, I only boot it up with shader and mods just sit there to enjoy the scenery on a big screen.

[@fillman86]

when I first heard about this, I realised they now need a way to have the world curve so we have a good horizon :)

[@jweezy_864]

Since when did KZbin have such a huge comment bot problem 😭

[@SirCamWA]

Last year it's gotten bad

[@TrigoNomentry]

Pretty much since ever.

[@thelordofcringe]

Since 2016ish

[@igorlopes7589]

What the algorithm does to comments from actual people is worse

[@sloc_]

Its like what a kids imagination of what minecraft looks like. So cool!

[@SkateEverythingProject]

Dude that's such a beautiful video man thanks. Made me feel that childlike wonder again!

[@Luzi-chan]

watching this makes me feel so nostalgic. it looks like how i remember the game growing up. i know it wasnt your intention but it made me shed a tear. man the good old times...

[@conservingcommonsense4980]

Try VR and you'll pass out

[@micheljr.beaudry21]

😂

[@thejinganinja9312]

Or just go outside 😂 And yes I get that this was a joke, i am also joking.

[@xTankox]

Fr 😂😂

[@dr.smoothey]

Pass out from what exactly? Sounds like a skill issue

[@Creativity_Sparks]

Or vomit from intense motion sickness..

[@lpk822]

THE NOSTALGIA!!

[@ywhok]

Something I always missed about Alpha and Beta Minecraft was how the render fog made the world feel far more impressive. This mod brings that feeling back for the 2020s

[@self.improved]

Watching this with my boy, so excited to try this out on the weekend! Thanks for sharing!

[@CaptainZhariff]

I've been playing with this mod for a week, and I can say that minecraft won't feel the same without Distant Horizons for me. It has become my essential mod to just admire my world at immense distances

[@737smartin]

Looks beautiful! In this YTube video, it seems very hard to see under the highly reflective (but amazing) water surface. Do you find that when playing?

[@CaptainZhariff]

@@737smartinCompared to other shaders that I've used, underwater visibility is quite limited with the Bliss Shaders but it depends on personal preference. For me, I love it! It adds to the realism and I especially like the underwater visuals more with the lightrays penetrating through the water.

[@737smartin]

@@CaptainZhariff Appreciate the reply!

[@Ace57_]

If microsoft buys this mod and officially adds it to the game, then im 100% playing minecraft again.

[@fnfal113]

Could just hire the dev

[@b14922]

Will never happen.

[@seanaes]

Or just download the mod

[@KenzertYT]

Microsoft will ruin it if they buy it.

[@tiefensucht]

why wait, just use the mod today..

[@maxx_2245]

Thank you for making a video about this, LevelCap. It is mesmerising to look at this mod, and I will definitely give it a try.

[@N0xtron]

Wow, thanks for showing so many different games. I would have never thought of playing MC again but with that!

[@Droid3455]

Last time I played minecraft with my friends was in 2015, this really makes me want to call all of them and play just like the good old days

[@constructionskeleton8030]

what shaders are you using for this. All of the shaders I've used with DH don't work. Also, Forge or Fabric?

[@IamABanan]

Shaders called Bliss only works for fabric!

[@danielwright5031]

follow the instructions lmao. it says to use its own shaders that come with the pack

[@constructionskeleton8030]

@danielwright5031 , yeah lol, i usually just look at install instructions, and nothing passed it.

[@constructionskeleton8030]

@IamABanan , thanks man.

[@TheMasterOfSafari]

It's Sodium + Iris Shaders + Distant Horizons, you need a specific compatible shader called Bliss Shaders, only on Fabric. And you need some Beta versions of the mods last I checked.

[@chievemoe6590]

Yeah might need to have this downloaded again, thanks for the heads up on the mod!

[@darthbinks5987]

A fine addition to my collection.

[@benidictnelbert]

Yet again modders active in a small fraction of the time, what multiple coloured haired devs find impossible to even grasp the concept of.

[@actionknight93]

Did you used a mod for the sky, water and light? Or just Distant Horizons + Tectonic?

[@briansmith303]

That's the shaders doing that part.

[@feflechi]

Looks awesome ! Funny the smooth clouds and fog compared to the blocky land ^^

[@glenn3646]

Mna the lighting and water effect looks awesome and yes the draw distance is amazing

[@starfan6299]

This is peak Levelcap content lol I clicked this video so fast

[@SnipeGhost]

Minecraft will always be the greatest video game ever made.

[@UnseemlyGenie00]

Nah

[@FaonPage]

The beauty of the adventure and the exploration in this game always was : "oh I see this mountains peeks right there or this cute lagoon and I know I can put my little tiny house or an entire kingdom there at any point." And this cranked it to a feeling I never thought possible in my many thousands of hours of this game. I flyed with shaders and DH on for HOURS.

[@linushesjedal3107]

0:06 "is blowing my mind"craft

[@Nephelangelo]

Mojang: Can’t figure out how to make bundles work. Modding community:

[@Visual39]

Underrated comment lol

[@butter_nut1817]

The fact that mojang did not implement this (especially since Microsoft purchase) is insane. It's a pretty old technology really

[@thejaster4733]

There was a moment in the past when Mojang wanted to enhance graphics called "super duper graphics pack", but since then they have abandoned the project.

[@deata5513]

i will always remember my first time on the game, first house in my new town, i was 7 at the time... got scared by a creeper when i spawned at night, my father behind me laughing, god i miss that bastard... Ahhh the nostalgia of life...

[@TheFoolishnoob]

It's funny, the moment you said it uses a skybox to "break the limitation" I could see it. I could see what's going on when you mention the "playable zone" vs the "unplayable" being the distant terrain being skyboxed

[@cola98765]

In a sense it's very similar to how Source engine does it.

[@stopicantaim6920]

Jesus the bots are crazy today

[@justincary4803]

Imagine if mojang actually cared about there game.

[@thibaultmol]

*their

[@Vesperon]

*Microsoft

[@LineOfThy]

*their

[@-Luucy-]

*theyire're

[@hanh7395]

god damn seeing that horizon plus cloud shadows and fog just makes it more real life. Like being able to see and literally go to that mountain peaks/canyon or whatever is just wow. I mean obviously its minecraft, you can do that in vanilla, but that visual stimulation tho

[@andrearaffellini2355]

Really mindblowing, can’t wait to try it myself!!

[@KvapuJanjalia]

If not for mods, I'd never play Minecraft.

[@joaocatini2674]

the fact that vanilla minecraft is so ugly compared to anything minimally modified is depressing. mojang could just implement shaders in minecraft at the press of a button

[@Z0mb13ta11ahase]

I personally like the simplicity of vanilla. I've downloaded all kinds of mods but always fall back to vanilla.

[@snekoyl]

Everyone prefers such different shaders and settings they’d have to implement native support in such a way that would still allow options and customization

[@LineOfThy]

Again, people letting their personal preferences get ahead of what's actually good for the game.

[@RasakBlood]

This seems so cool. Just taking peoples old mega builds and being able to see it all at the same time would be magical. Minecraft to a large degree is a bout building cool stuff. And now you can build cool stuff and have everyone see it at a distance.

[@teklife]

this is what another free open source voxel game called Veloren does, and the vistas are incredible. u can see the rendering increase from the 'low poly' to high when u reach an area quickly, like when using gliders, which are a default part of the game.

[@autofigure00]

minecraft time laps huge build videos are about to go CRAZY

[@76Eliam]

I really hope one day we will have the same kind of render distance in Vintage Story. This game already gives me the same vibes as Minecraft when I discovered it many years ago, but much more oriented toward nature, exploration and survival, so this kind of mod would have an even greater impact on Vintage Story, I think. Would be hard to stop playing.

[@-Burb]

Huh, never heard of that game. Looks pretty interesting though. Hopefully it goes on steam someday

[@itztropiczz9157]

The thing is not talked in the mod is that it all except what exceed the default render distance need to be rendered first in all chunks. So to have the same results we all see in video is to render everything like a video to be played at full speed and full fidelity.

[@Nichrysalis]

Used the chunky mod on a huge radius (10k by 10k blocks) to prerender chunks ahead of time. And wow it's incredibly smooth. It changes the game for the better so much.

[@SpeedyMckeezy]

It was a little wierd to compare vanilla without shaders to modded with shaders

[@Dustyy01]

More of this please with Other topics! Amazing🎉

[@ggghvv9937]

0:26 oh god beautiful

[@ketchup4471]

Can't wait to update my modpack with this and BSL/Complementary..this is gonna be incredible.

[@tcunero]

So nice to see this. Will definitely give it a try. It adds soooo much

[@Tirondzo]

I thought about this just a few weeks ago and here it is Amazing!

[@Dantprime]

Man I remember back when classic was the gamemode and we existed on small little maps. It's cool to see how the game has progressed over the years.

[@sibiris8474]

cant wait for some modpack to use it. I really cant handle modding manualy anymore-

[@TheAllGamingNerd]

Will definitely be downloading this and getting back into mine craft again.

[@scavyboi]

I remember the first time I played Industrial Craft and I fell in love with the game even more after realizing how amazing minecrafts modding community is. I played it every single day for so many years knocking out modpack after modpack.

[@dnoordink]

If this can be integrated with a major modpack like GTNH (or others) I'll be back in a split second. It looks amazing.

[@aaronl1998]

I don't really play MC often, but will always have a soft spot for it and be willing to load it up if there's something to do. I booted this up a few weeks ago, and it really is revelatory. It's really a big deal.

[@MrDrOpossum]

Haven't watched you for a while but I've been a sub since the battlefield 3 beta. Cool video. Congrats on the son man.

[@jameson_dt8177]

It's amazing. This got me back into playing Minecraft again, instantly.

[@eldertmohr1366]

When you showed the vanilla comparison, I realised I like that better. I grew upon that tiny and personal world. The grandness lived in the imagination

[@dryayman1884]

Man its so wierd to think about how I started playing this game. It was on a complete craptop back before the hunger bar was a thing on the shortest render distance and even then I only got 30 fps. Going from only being able to see about 15 blocks in front of me with heavy fog to hundreds of blocks is insane.

[@XDomX777]

"It just works" - Todd Howard

[@Beesechurger_73]

Before we had to use our imagination, and now we can just have the game look the way we want.

[@MegaTroubleII]

It’s disappointing how little the actual developers have done with Minecraft since it was bought by Microsoft, this is incredible stuff

[@Ping_JJT7]

3:10 a bat cave would be super amazing in there

[@thatguy_5240]

I used the Distant Horizons mod years ago when it was just barely functional, and its so awesome to see how far its come

[@DeaFX]

Ive seen some minecraft youtubers cover these mods but seeing my "Battlefield" youtuber praise it really hits high. You got me excited to try and get this mod even if it takes some setting up to do if you can have these amazing results! 🤩

[@Reblwitoutacause]

Something about a realistic sky in Minecraft is just so magical what it does to the game

[@richardt.rogers2730]

That last shot at 7:45 really solidified what a huge change this mod would be for how I play the game. It turns an only somewhat interesting biome into the freaking grand canyon -- somewhere you'd actually want to admire and get lost exploring

[@coletroutman1060]

I started playing mc when I was 12 and am now 25, watching this genuinely made me shed a tear, just the nostalgia. Like others said, this is what it felt like when I first found the game

[@xmistevo8461]

Love you levelcap, I hope you and your friends/family the best of health.

[@Lag-ify]

This reminds me of in Zelda BOTW with how you can see from one corner of the map to the next which is just so cool.

[@evanherriges4042]

cant wait for the full release of distant horizons that will hopefully work with most shaders cause the ones I use are complementary reimagined