{"id":149795,"date":"2026-06-09T03:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/substrate\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T03:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:23:21","slug":"substrate","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/substrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Substrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>![the word Substrate textured with the top texture of Deepslate, a dark grey stone](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/cde4523b18eb5f41715c13f8faac0bbd2613925d.png)<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><i><b>Sodium has updated and removed the point that this mod hooked into. Given that my interest in maintaining this mod was already low and I was planning on archiving it when Minecraft switched to Vulkan anyway, I&#8217;ve decided to stop work on it now. Thanks for all the support! Anyone who wants to try and make the mod work is free to fork it \ud83d\ude42<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">This mod is a fork of Bedrodium by kirillirik.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/0197a0dce279690de37a1f899b3d25edf9d3bac2.png\" alt=\"a pixelart redition of the Github logo\" width=\"7%\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/8a0c2971228a3266c56e4dcdeef1229af0974192.png\" alt=\"a pixelart redition of the Ko-Fi logo\" width=\"7%\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Modrinth Downloads\" src=\"https:\/\/img.shields.io\/modrinth\/dt\/zNuzb72d?style=for-the-badge&#038;logo=modrinth&#038;color=276538\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CurseForge Downloads\" src=\"https:\/\/img.shields.io\/curseforge\/dt\/1156128?style=for-the-badge&#038;logo=curseforge&#038;color=orange&#038;link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.curseforge.com%2Fminecraft%2Fmc-mods%2Fsubstrate-sodium-addon\">\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/9e4f1782bd994be869034b49349c5b6ec4e4b166.png\" alt=\"The word \"About\" in a blocky font with a bedrock texture\" width=\"20%\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>_**Requires Sodium (or Embeddium^)**_.<\/p>\n<p>Small optimization by removing the invisible sides of the bottom\/ top layer of the world. 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