# “Faster” Particle Collisions<\/p>\n
Originally when writing Methane’s 2.4 update, I found that particle lighting and collision calculations took up a lot of CPU time in certain conditions for seemingly no reason. To fix this, I outright disabled collision logic and lighting for particles when Methane was on. I’ve been meaning to throw this on modrinth for a while, and remembered to do it… **a little later than expected.**<\/p>\n
The lighting hack is very much a feature of Methane, although Particle Core optimizes lighting for particles (instead of throwing out the whole system for a bit more performance).<\/p>\n
While this makes particles “more optimized”, it also means that **all particle collisions are not calculated**. Most of the time this is not noticable, but particles that are meant to stick to surfaces will not do so anymore. A handful of other small effects will also look odd, or not work properly.<\/p>\n
Mods that depend on this behaviour will either not work correctly or outright crash (although running code on particle collisions is very uncommon for mods to do).<\/p>\n
If you don’t need the performance boost from this, you should settle for just Particle Core.<\/p>\n
It’s worth noting that as of recently, Lunar Client has for whatever reason used the same patch that Methane uses. Using Lunar with this mod will cause a crash, and make Methane disable this optimization. I have no idea why they did this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A standalone version of one of Methane’s particle optimizations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"\"faster\"-particle-collisions","_minecraft_project_id":"G3eSfMuo","_minecraft_author":"AnOpenSauceDev","_minecraft_license":"Apache-2.0","_minecraft_downloads":83410,"_minecraft_follows":26,"_minecraft_client_side":"required","_minecraft_server_side":"unsupported","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"\"faster\"-particle-collisions.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":6702,"_minecraft_version_count":2,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-15T22:41:54.578412Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2024-06-02T20:24:39.456363Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2024-10-15T08:16:50.412029Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/\"faster\"-particle-collisions","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":0,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-05-31T10:39:31+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"7e2cd8a96f06fd3ef9f3d3b95cccaa67","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[43,97,90,98],"mod_loader":[99,100],"minecraft_version":[59,36,60,93,94,101,102,62,37],"class_list":["post-75","mod","type-mod","status-publish","hentry","mod_category-cursed","mod_category-fabric","mod_category-optimization","mod_category-quilt","mod_loader-fabric","mod_loader-quilt","minecraft_version-1-20","minecraft_version-1-20-1","minecraft_version-1-20-2","minecraft_version-1-20-3","minecraft_version-1-20-4","minecraft_version-1-20-5","minecraft_version-1-20-6","minecraft_version-1-21","minecraft_version-1-21-1"],"yoast_head":"\n