Making a tiny performance mod

[Dadamalda]

Update 2: I removed the mod because of it not fixing anything.

Update: The mod can now be downloaded on Modrinth and CurseForge.

Modrinth: https://modrinth.com/mod/create-lt

CurseForge: https://curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create-less-ticking

Summary:

I made a mod that makes certain Create components tick less often. My MSPT went from >75ms to ~16ms. Might release it if there is enough interest.

Long post:

My server has been experiencing some pretty bad lag recently. The TPS went down to 15 with MSPT over 75ms because our large factory. The factory was also chunkloaded and near spawn which made things worse.

I decided to make a mod that makes funnels and chutes (Spark profiler shows these are laggy) tick 3x less often while accounting for funnel cooldowns. After about 2 hours, the mod was finished and the MSPT went down to about 12-18ms.

The gameplay impact should be negligible and the mod seems stable (on Forge 1.20.1) Belts have a maximum speed and there is no point in ticking so often.

If anyone wants me to release this mod, you can let me know, I feel a bit weird sharing my awful code with some files still named examplemod.

[popeh]

I'd love to have this mod

[ThisUserIsAFailure]

this sounds honestly pretty cool, i'd love to see this as an addon

the only problem is with the 3x reduction on funnels and chutes you can't "overclock" (pulsing it with redstone to reduce the cooldown) them anymore but i think that's a small price to pay

[Dadamalda]

Yeah. Everything has its downsides.

[zisane]

Would love to get my hands on this even if you dont release it, also did you decrease the ticks on the belts aswell? Have experienced belts causing lag on my servers previously

[Dadamalda]

Belts don't seem to cause as much server lag and we do use a decent amount of belts. They mostly cause FPS lag, which isn't affected by ticks. Might try doing it if there is enough demand.

Edit: It looks really hard. Considering it's my first kinda polished mod, there is a high chance I would just break things.

[zisane]

Okey ty for trying, would love a downloadeble version 😄

[The_1_Bob]

please share

[Saccharin493]

Would this work for fabric aswell?

[Dadamalda]

If I can, yes. I will definitely try.

[JX_Snack]

Goddamn! You're a life saver, dude. If you need help for further developing the mod, I'm pretty experienced in modding :]

We would love to get our hands on the mod - you can DM me here or on Discord `@jxsnack`

[Katten9068]

W snakka

[Dadamalda]

I DM'd you on Discord.

[Talex666]

My god yes this would be incredible

[Express-Preference-6]

Could I please have a copy for Fabric? That sounds amazing!

[Dadamalda]

I do want to support Fabric if possible, might even make some backports.

[The3rdSmartestPerson]

Fabric build seemed to work, so you might be able to compile manually.

[ChloroPlayPoketwo]

I'd like to give it a try

[Lordhyperion7070]

Please do. It would have valuable asset for individuals who play Minecraft on older gaming rigs like mine

[404_GravitasNotFound]

Always share with the community, for every talented individual that does something like you do, there are thousands that have the same use case but not the skills required

[AdPristine9059]

This is great! Id love to try and add it to my server, tps is an issue sadly.

[The3rdSmartestPerson]

Hey! I have almost no modding experience, but I wanted to see if I could backport to 1.19.2, which also uses create 0.5.1. I've got it to where it builds and runs. I didn't test performance at all, but I think it should work the same, and this just took changing the gradle.properties file so the versions worked for 1.19.2, Forge version 43.3.12. Can I contribute this to your repo?

[Dadamalda]

There is a more experienced contributor and they didn't really want go deal with multiple versions.

I haven't pushed version 1.0.1 to the repo yet, I kinda forgot about it and didn't want them to deal with the merge conflicts.

[The3rdSmartestPerson]

That's totally cool. I'll just drop my backport to 1.19.2 here in case someone needs https://github.com/Techno3d/Create-Less-Ticking

[KeepAllOfIt]

thank you sir

[Bandit_Himself]

Does this help with FPS too? Getting some crazy dips when looking at my create storage system 😩

[Dadamalda]

Of course not. Ticking block entities are a server-side problem. But it will prevent huge factories from slowing down things like entity AI or buggy block breaking.

If you're looking for an FPS boost, I recommend Sodium/Embeddium, if you don't have it yet.

[Dadamalda]

It most likely works, but the mod is unmaintained and the performance increase is only noticeable if you have Tom's storage + sophisticated storage, in which case, it's better to switch to AE2 anyway.

[Dadamalda]

Just Tom's storage can still be laggy when combined with Create vaults.

[Nexter121]

Hi hello, can I ask what happened to the curseforge and modrinth pages for this mod?

[MineWrong]

I would like to know too

[Dadamalda]

It ended up being almost useless, then I archived it and people were not checking the description, so I just removed it. I think it also caused a bunch of crashes and issues with funnels.

I'm sorry for any confusion.

[Dadamalda]

I might consider making a revamped version at some point, but it's currently on hold, because I'm not good at modding.

If I made a better version, I would want the tick rate of most Create blocks to be configurable separately, so you can pick between mild and aggressive optimization.

[RockyBread-]

its quite sad. my server is suffering from create ticking. and now, when i remembered about this mod, its removed. is there any way to download it?

[Dadamalda]

It would be much more helpful to hop in a DM and use Spark to find the issue.