RoadRunner (also known as Meep Meep!) is an unofficial fork of the popular performance-enhancing Fabric mod Lithium by jellysquid3 for the Forge mod loader, based on the Architectury Loom toolchain. This mod aims to optimise many areas of the game in order to provide better overall performance for both Minecraft clients and servers, while not requiring the mod to be installed on both sides.
(Note: RoadRunner, as mentioned above is an unofficial fork and has thus not been endorsed by jellysquid3 or the CaffeineMC organisation. Please report any issues you have to us only, and we will forward them only if we are able to reproduce the problem on Fabric with the upstream version of Lithium!)
You can currently find downloads for RoadRunner through CurseForge or our GitHub releases page.
RoadRunner can be installed like any other Forge mod by dragging it into your modded Minecraft instance's mods folder.
If you'd like to get help with the mod, feel free to open an issue here on GitHub, and if you want to propose new features or otherwise contribute to the mod, we will gladly accept pull requests, as well!
RoadRunner is only possible thanks to the many high-quality contributions made by the original Lithium developers, and as such, we would like to ask you to support them, instead! For more information, you can see this section in the upstream repository's readme.
(Note: The following paragraphs are taken almost verbatim from Lithium's README.md)
One of the most important design goals in RoadRunner is correctness. Unlike other mods which apply optimizations to the game, this mod does not sacrifice vanilla functionality or behavior in the name of raw speed. It's a no compromises' solution for those wanting to speed up their game, and as such, installing RoadRunner should be completely transparent to the player.
If you do encounter an issue where we deviate from the norm (in this case both vanilla and default Forge behaviour), please don't hesitate to submit an issue. Each patch is carefully checked to ensure vanilla parity, but after all, bugs are unavoidable.
Out of the box, no additional configuration is necessary once the mod has been installed. RoadRunner makes use of a configuration override system which allows you to either forcefully disable problematic patches or enable incubating patches which are otherwise disabled by default. As such, an empty config file simply means you'd like to use the default configuration, which includes all stable optimizations by default.
For more detailed information on the different configuration file format and all available options, please see our Wiki.
If you're hacking on the code or would like to compile a custom build of Meep Meep! from the latest sources, you'll want to start here.
You will need to install JDK 8 in order to build this mod. You can either install this through a package manager such as Chocolatey on Windows or SDKMAN! on other platforms. If you'd prefer to not use a package manager, you can always grab the installers or packages directly from AdoptOpenJDK.
On Windows, the Oracle JDK/JRE builds should be avoided where possible due to their poor quality. Always prefer using the open-source builds from AdoptOpenJDK when possible.
Navigate to the directory you've cloned this repository and launch a build with Gradle using gradlew build (Windows)
or ./gradlew build (macOS/Linux). If you are not using the Gradle wrapper, simply replace gradlew with gradle
or the path to it.
The initial setup may take a few minutes. After Gradle has finished building everything, you can find the resulting
artifacts in build/libs.
RoadRunner, in accordance with Lithium's original license is licensed under GNU LGPLv3, a free and open-source license. For more information, please see the license file.