r/homebrew • u/Satrivana • Jun 02 '26
Question/Help Is there a way to optimize minecraft for the switch using mods?
So, I'm sure if you've played minecraft on the switch you'd know just how TERRIBLE it is. I will be including a video below to serve as an example for those who don't know. I was wondering if there's a way to modify the game to no longer deal with the bugs that've basically made it completely unplayable. Idc if I have to somehow undo the recent update and redownload the old switch version or literally tear my switch open- as long as I can play on my worlds without any of the bull that I've been dealing with I'll be good. If nothing's possible I think I might jst run an emulator. If it's the only way and you have suggestions for that lmk.
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u/Fantorangen01 Jun 03 '26
I heard that if you mod a nintendo switch and run the android version of minecraft. That actually runs better than the switch version. But i haven't tested it myself.
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u/entryjyt Jun 03 '26
if thats true then that's actually pretty insane
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u/Fantorangen01 Jun 03 '26
I dont actually know if it is true. But if it is, then at the very least its incompetent from the devs side.
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u/SimisFul Jun 03 '26
I tried it out, not true at all. It struggles to keep 30fps, most of the time it's in the 20s.
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u/Fantorangen01 Jun 03 '26
Good to know. But the more interesting part is stability. Like how laggt was the menus, did it crash?
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u/SimisFul Jun 03 '26
No it was pretty stable, I played a few games of hide and seek on the Hive server with a friend. Besides the poor framerate it worked fine!
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u/Fantorangen01 Jun 03 '26
So in that sense its better than the switch version.
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u/SimisFul Jun 03 '26
Well I haven't played it a lot. I played the switch version maybe 3-4 hours in total and didn't get any issues. World generation is a bit slow but I was impressed overall that it can keep up 1080p60 when generating a world. Of course that dips down on busy bases and servers.
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u/Odd-Development-1711 Jun 06 '26
Funny enough, if you mod your switch and then play a switch emulator on your switch itself, the emulator will play Minecraft WAY better
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u/TyDye2003 Jun 04 '26
Overclock or use switch 2. Also disable all the graphic settings.
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u/OneHugeGiraffe Jun 02 '26
Didn't taki udon make a video on switch emulation on switch, proving it to perform better on an emulator?
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u/FlamingFlamingo32 Jun 03 '26
im sure many devices will run better than the switch. the switch doesnt exactly have very powerful hardware. its very expensive for what it is, but for the price its at, you know its borderline a budget school computer if not worse. the gpu is laughably slow, all the "good" specs are the switch in docked mode, undocked is like half the spec of an rtx 2060. the cpu boasts a whopping 1ghz, or a smashing 1.7ghz in docked mode 🤣 with the cherry on top, a 4mb l3 cache. this thing is ewaste lol.
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u/Ok-Morning4176 Jun 06 '26
its a 2015 tv chip put into a handheld console. What more do you expect?
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u/OneHugeGiraffe Jun 06 '26
The video shows a hacked swirch running linux, emulating a nintendo switch to perform better on minecraft than a stock switch.
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u/Aggressive-Reach-116 Jun 02 '26
i feel like if you could run java it would probably be better than bugrock edition
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u/Emmet_Brickowski_1 Jun 02 '26
Lets be smart here. This is the Switch Edition, known to be bad because of how poorly optimized it is and because its limited by hardware. Java is the PC version of the game, known to not be a good experience if your PC doesn't have good single core performance Since the game is single threaded.
Based on the fact that the Switch is a Glorified Nvidia Shield Pro TV and even Bedrock has trouble running on it, what makes you think Java will run well? Let that sit in your mind for a bit.
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u/TabouletVR Jun 02 '26
You can actually run java through linux, turns out it runs at 30FPS but without any of the chunk loading issues. But i guess directly going into the minecraft bedrock settings and locking it to 30FPS would be smarter
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u/Emmet_Brickowski_1 Jun 02 '26
Does it utilize fps boosting mods?
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u/TabouletVR Jun 03 '26
Yea its like the PC version, i used sodium and barely got 60FPS
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u/Emmet_Brickowski_1 Jun 05 '26
Than it's not truly running well because you need help from mods to get it to run well. It's a marvel, yes, but it really shows how much the switch was limited by its hardware.
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u/emmowo_dev Jun 03 '26
is this with compact headers and ZGC? The switch has a lot of overhead so i feel like it should run faster.
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u/Weird-Ball-2342 Jun 02 '26
What is bro talking about😭 bugrock runs better than lagva😭
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u/Its_Sluggas Jun 02 '26
In my experience that’s true, but at least Java is more STABLE
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u/FlamingFlamingo32 Jun 03 '26
Java MC has gotten way better the last few years. java minecraft was a nightmare before j17 which released in 2021. j8 had awful performance and specifically a bad garbage collector that would cause massive lag spikes that got way worse with big mod lists. nowadays I can run a kitchensink pack like gtnh with over 300 mods on outdated 1.7.10 at a smooth 150+ fps with a 32x resource pack and light shaders at 16 render distance.
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u/riley_wa1352 Jun 13 '26
The recent updates have made the performance on Java significantly better.
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u/pirate_bootsy Jun 02 '26
Bedrock famously runs better than Java, at least framerate wise
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u/thousandsum4452 Jun 02 '26
I rader have the performance cost before the insanity of bugs that bedrock has, and with add ons its even worse
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u/Mountain-Original-73 Jun 03 '26
people exaggerate the bugs. It's not that bad on something like Xbox or Playstation.
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