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Entity Culling: Download and Install Guide (26.3)

Entity Culling: more FPS in Minecraft 26.3 by skipping what you can't see

Vanilla Minecraft still renders mobs and chests hidden behind walls and mountains. Entity Culling checks the real line of sight and skips them. In our test the same flight went from about 48 to a steady 120 FPS.

October 10, 20262 min readby The Mod Hunter

Split Minecraft screenshot of the same mountain view: left vanilla at low FPS, right with Entity Culling at 120 FPS, F3 numbers visible — Real in-game screenshots, same camera and same moment: vanilla Minecraft 26.3 on the left, with Entity Culling 1.11.2 on the right. 1,024 villagers are hidden inside the mountain.

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The short version

Entity Culling for Minecraft 26.3

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Vanilla Minecraft skips what’s behind you, but it still renders mobs and chests hidden behind walls, ceilings and whole mountains. Entity Culling checks what you can actually see and skips the rest. Version 1.11.2 is out for Minecraft 26.3 on Fabric and NeoForge.

Our test: 1,024 villagers inside a mountain

We sealed a vault with 1,024 villagers and 294 chests inside a mountain next to our base, then flew the same camera path twice, once in vanilla Minecraft 26.3 and once with Entity Culling 1.11.2. From outside you can’t see a single villager.

Vanilla: the F3 screen counts around 730 rendered entities, and the frame rate sits between about 45 and 50 FPS.
With Entity Culling: its own F3 lines show around 720 entities and about 60 block entities (chests) skipped, and the game holds a steady 120 FPS.

Numbers from our PC; your gain depends on your hardware, the number of entities and where you are. Once you look at the villagers from inside the vault, both versions render them as usual.

What Entity Culling does

Skips hidden entities and block entities: mobs, item frames, chests and other block entities that are hidden behind blocks are not drawn.
Real line of sight: the visibility check traces paths asynchronously on spare CPU cores, without blocking the main game thread, and updates in real time to keep pop-ins to a minimum.
Tick culling: hidden entities also skip their client-side ticks (on by default, can be turned off).
Works with Sodium: Sodium checks visible chunks, Entity Culling also skips entities inside visible chunks that are still hidden.

Good to know

Settings: whitelist entities and block entities that should always render (the beacon is whitelisted by default), and turn on Solid leaves to treat leaves as solid in dense forests.
Very old PCs: if your CPU is already maxed out, there is no spare CPU time for the checks and the mod can’t help much.
Client only: the server doesn’t need it, and farms and mob behavior stay the same.

Entity Culling for Minecraft 26.3

The current release is Entity Culling 1.11.2 for Minecraft 26.3, on Fabric and NeoForge since September 21, 2026. The Fabric version requires Fabric API. Entity Culling is made by tr7zw and has over 176 million downloads on Modrinth.

How to install Entity Culling

Install Fabric or NeoForge for Minecraft 26.3.
On Fabric, add Fabric API to your mods folder.
Download Entity Culling 1.11.2 for 26.3 from Modrinth and put it into your mods folder.

Two zoomed Minecraft F3 debug readouts, vanilla showing 48 fps, Entity Culling showing 119 fps and skipped entity counts — The game's own F3 text, zoomed in: same flight, vanilla Minecraft 26.3 at 48 FPS, with Entity Culling 1.11.2 at 119 FPS and 724 entities skipped.

Minecraft screenshot of a steep mountain with a taiga village on top, spruce trees in front — In-game screenshot (Minecraft 26.3, Entity Culling 1.11.2): the mountain from the forest. The vault with 1,024 villagers is hidden inside it.

Minecraft screenshot from inside the rock in spectator view, caves visible, the vault with villagers ahead — In-game screenshot: the camera flies through the rock (spectator mode) into the hidden vault.

Minecraft screenshot of a huge hall filled with rows of villagers, chests along the walls, sea lanterns in the ceiling — In-game screenshot: 1,024 villagers inside the sealed vault. Once they are in view, both vanilla and Entity Culling render them as usual.

Minecraft screenshot of a wall of chests next to rows of villagers — In-game screenshot: 294 chests line the vault walls. Chests are block entities, Entity Culling skips them too when they are hidden.

Minecraft screenshot of taiga village houses on a mountain slope — In-game screenshot with Entity Culling: the village on top of the mountain, a normal scene at 120 FPS while the vault below stays culled.

Real in-game screenshots from Minecraft 26.3, recorded at The Mod Hunter's base world: a sealed vault with 1,024 villagers and 294 chests inside a mountain, filmed with and without Entity Culling 1.11.2. The F3 numbers are the game's own debug text, zoomed in.

FAQ

Is Entity Culling available for Minecraft 26.3?

Yes. Version 1.11.2 is a release for Minecraft 26.3 on Fabric and NeoForge (September 21, 2026). The Fabric version requires Fabric API, the NeoForge version has no required dependencies.

What does Entity Culling do?

Vanilla Minecraft skips what is behind you, but still renders entities and block entities that are hidden behind walls, ceilings or terrain. Entity Culling traces the line of sight asynchronously on spare CPU cores and skips rendering what you actually can’t see. How much FPS you gain depends on the number of entities and where you are in the world.

Does it change mob behavior or farms?

No. According to its author it only skips rendering. Mobs still spawn, move and drop items, farms keep working, and the server-side simulation is not affected. The optional tick culling only applies to the client-side world.

Do I need Entity Culling on the server?

No. It is a client-side mod; Modrinth lists it as required on the client and unsupported on the server.

I use Sodium. Does Entity Culling still help?

Yes. According to its author, Sodium’s own entity culling only checks which chunks are visible. Entity Culling checks the actual line of sight, so it also skips entities inside visible chunks that are still hidden.

Can it hurt performance?

On a very old PC whose CPU is already maxed out there is no spare CPU time for the visibility checks. Otherwise the author says it should never cost performance, at worst it has no effect when there is nothing to cull.

How can I test it myself?

Under Controls you can bind a key for Debug toggle culling and switch the mod on and off without restarting. A second key shows the culling boxes. The F3 screen also gets lines for rendered and skipped entities and block entities (turn them on with F3 + F6 in newer versions).