Volcanic is a modern Vulkan rendering engine for Minecraft NeoForge, developed as a fork of VulkanMod and redesigned to provide greater compatibility, better performance, and a graphics platform built for the future.
The goal of Volcanic is not just to increase FPS. It is designed to become a rendering solution that works seamlessly with as many mods, resource packs, and future graphics technologies as possible, while remaining easy to install and use.
Volcanic is specifically built to continuously improve compatibility with the most popular Minecraft mods, including Create and its ecosystem of addons, as well as many other mods that rely on advanced rendering features.
The same philosophy applies to resource packs. Volcanic natively supports CIT and CTM, allowing an ever growing number of resource packs to work without requiring additional compatibility mods.
Volcanic already includes several features that would normally require additional mods.
Do not install the following mods alongside Volcanic:
These features are already built into Volcanic. Installing them separately is unnecessary and may lead to conflicts or unexpected behavior.
Volcanic ships with a built in shader, providing an enhanced visual experience right out of the box.
Please note that this shader is still under active development and does not represent its final quality or feature set. It will continue to receive visual improvements, optimizations, and new rendering features over time.
In the future, the shader system will become fully extensible, allowing creators to develop, share, and distribute their own shaders specifically for Volcanic.
An official wiki is currently under construction.
It will include:
Volcanic is currently in Early Alpha.
The project is under active development, and many systems are still evolving. Bugs, missing features, and breaking changes should be expected between releases.
The rendering engine, built in shader, mod compatibility, and resource pack support will continue to improve with every update.
Our long term vision is to make Volcanic a modern graphics platform for Minecraft, delivering excellent performance, broad compatibility with mods and resource packs, and a fully extensible shader ecosystem.
Thank you for supporting Volcanic during its early development.
Volcanic is built upon the work of several open-source projects and would not exist without their contributions.
Volcanic ultimately traces its roots back to VulkanMod, the original Vulkan renderer for Minecraft created by XCollateral. Their work laid the foundation for bringing Vulkan rendering to Minecraft.
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Volcanic is directly based on VulkanMod Reforged, the NeoForge port created and maintained by rindw. This project served as the starting point for Volcanic's development.
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While Volcanic builds upon these projects, it introduces extensive changes focused on compatibility, rendering architecture, built-in resource pack support, integrated shaders, and long-term extensibility.
Special thanks to XCollateral, rindw, and everyone who has contributed to the Minecraft modding community.
