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(Sodium) Chloride
Gives to Embeddium (1.20.1) and Sodium additional Performance and Quality features for a tasteful experience
Quick answer
Which (Sodium) Chloride release should I use?
(Sodium) Chloride chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-26.2 targets 26.2 with Fabric. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. All 2 required mods have matching files.
Where it goes
Is (Sodium) Chloride required on the client, server, or both?
The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.
The source does not explicitly classify this release as client-only or server-only.
What else does (Sodium) Chloride chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-26.2 need?
chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-26.2. Change the file and its required mods may change too.
Install Fabric API, Sodium first. We found matching files for this game-version and loader setup.
We only count dependency files that match this setup. A file for another loader does not fill the gap.
Before you install it
Add (Sodium) Chloride without breaking your instance.
Built for (Sodium) Chloride chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-26.2. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.
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Stick to this file
Use chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-26.2. It targets 26.2 with Fabric; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.
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Bring the mods it needs
Install Fabric API, Sodium first. We found matching files for this game-version and loader setup.
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Put it on the correct side
The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.
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Pick the file you checked
Use the “Get this file” button beside chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-26.2. It opens that exact file at the source.
About this project
What does (Sodium) Chloride add?
🧂 CHLORIDE MOD
Chloride is a performance addon/mod for Sodium that aims to improve the performance of the game and the quality of sodium itself. Offers a lot of features to customize and improve your experience with sodium, making it a tasteful experience (NaCl).
🔧 FEATURES
⚡ PERFORMANCE
🐄 ENTITY DISTANCE CULLING
- 📐 Avoid rendering/ticking Entities and Block Entities from far away.
- 📋 Features a whitelist, letting important entities (such as ender dragon or ghast)
- ✨ Example:
minecraft:batculls bats,alexsmobs:allculls all Alex's Mobs entities.
[🌿] LEAVES CULLING
- 📐 Reduce the number of rendered faces in a group of the same type of leaves
- 📋 Features a slider to set how many leaves you want to cull
[👟] FAST MODELS
- 📐 Replaces suboptimal animated Chest and Bed (below mc26.2) models to use solid models
- 📋 Toggle each individually
[🔦] HIDE JEI/REI/EMI OVERLAY
- 📐 Hides JEI/REI/EMI overlays until you type anything in their search bars
- ✨ Show a small meessag indicating you must search something to show the overlay
[🌎] FAST LANGUAGE RELOAD
- 📐 Reload quick as possible the language (less than 1 second).
[🔁] [26.2] ENGINE HOTSWAP (VK/GL)
- 📐 Enables hotswap of rendering engines (GL/VK) in-game.
- 📋 Disabled by default, can be enabled, compatible with sodium, incompatible with iris.
- ✨ No need to restart the game, perfect to compare instantly the game perf.
🛠️ VISUAL UTILITY
[🕯️] TRUE DARKNESS
- 📐 Adds MANY darkness levels to the game, making it more realistic (and darker)
- 📋 Toggles between DIM, DARK, DARKNESS, BLACK and BLACKNESS
- ✨ Moonlight and blocklights can affect the darkness level
[🏷️] NAMETAG HIDING
- 📐 Removes nametag rendering for everyone like players, entities and item frames. (what's your name?)
- 📋 Toggle each individually
[🔍] ZOOM KEY
- 📐 Adds a simple immediate zoom key to the game, allowing you to zoom in and out
- 📋 Can configure min and max distance and can be disabled
- ✨ You can scroll to zoom in and out while zooming
👓 QUALITY
[🌁] FOG/BLUEBAND SETTINGS
- 📐 Configure the distance (start, end), and the visibility of the fog and the blueband.
- 📋 Toggle each individually
[🧮] FPS DISPLAY
- 📐 Shows your average, min and current FPS, Memory usage percent and GPU usage percent.
- ✨ You can place it anywhere on the screen, even above your hotbar
[🖥️] BORDERLESS FULLSCREEN:
- 📐 Adds borderless fullscreen to the game, adding quick-tab switching, image-in-imag support and no more black screen
- ✨ Fullscreen key (F11) can also switch to Borderless FullScreen (can be disabled or override)
[🔳] TEXT SHADOWS TOGGLE
- 📐 Disables font shadows, sometimes increases the FPS on screens with a lot of text
[👁️] CHUNK FADE IN- Will be back in future updates
✨ MISC
- [🔒] SETTINGS LOCKER
- 📐 Hides all visual utility settings, making it impossible to change them
👥 SUPPORT AND QUESTIONS
Join to my community in Discord to ask anything about the mod, ask me permission to do odd things with the mod or do fancy suggestion to improve in the mod.
Project description from CurseForge.
Pick your setup
(Sodium) Chloride by Minecraft version and loader
Choose the version and loader you play, then open the matching release.
26.2
2 loader builds26.1.2
2 loader builds1.21.11
2 loader builds1.21.5
1 loader build1.21.1
2 loader builds1.20.4
1 loader build1.20.1
2 loader builds1.19.2
1 loader build1.18.2
1 loader buildCheck the dependencies, then try the file in a copied instance before changing a world you care about.
Recent files
(Sodium) Chloride versions and loaders
chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-26.2
chloride-FABRIC-mc26.2-v1.8.1.jar
20 Jul 2026
chloride-1.8.1-NEOFORGE-26.2
chloride-NEOFORGE-mc26.2-v1.8.1.jar
20 Jul 2026
chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-26.1.2
chloride-FABRIC-mc26.1.2-v1.8.1.jar
19 Jul 2026
chloride-1.8.1-NEOFORGE-26.1.2
chloride-NEOFORGE-mc26.1.2-v1.8.1.jar
19 Jul 2026
chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-1.21.11
chloride-FABRIC-mc1.21.11-v1.8.1.jar
19 Jul 2026
chloride-1.8.1-NEOFORGE-1.21.11
chloride-NEOFORGE-mc1.21.11-v1.8.1.jar
19 Jul 2026
Chloride-1.8.1-FORGE-1.20.1
chloride-FORGE-mc1.20.1-v1.8.1.jar
19 Jul 2026
chloride-1.8.1-FABRIC-1.21.1
chloride-FABRIC-mc1.21.1-v1.8.1.jar
19 Jul 2026
chloride-1.8.1-NEOFORGE-1.21.1
chloride-NEOFORGE-mc1.21.1-v1.8.1.jar
19 Jul 2026
1.8.0-NEO-1.21.1
chloride-NEOFORGE-mc1.21.1-v1.8.0.jar
18 Jul 2026
Chloride-NEOFORGE/mc1.21.1/v1.7.9
chloride-NEOFORGE-mc1.21.1-v1.7.9.jar
17 Jun 2026
Chloride-NEOFORGE/mc1.21.5/v1.7.8
chloride-NEOFORGE-mc1.21.5-v1.7.8.jar
1 Jun 2026
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