Solar ClientEverything that comes in the box.
No mod folders, no version mismatches. Open the game, press Right Shift, and turn on what you want.
95 mods, one menu.
Drag them around the screen with snapping to edges and center lines. Scroll to resize, right-click for a background, and give each one its own color.
PvP
Combat numbers and feedback for every fight.1.7 animationsNEW
Swing while you block, and hold swords, bows and food the 1.7 way
1.8.9Armor
Equipped pieces and their durability
Combo
Hits in a row without taking damage
Cooldowns
Ender pearls, abilities and other cooldowns the server sends
CPS
Clicks per second, left and right
CPS graphNEW
Your left-click CPS over the last 30 seconds, with the peak
Health
Your exact health, with absorption
Held item
Durability or stack size of what you're holding
HUD
Information on screen, placed where you want it.AltitudeNEW
Your Y level with a hint (diamond level, sea level...)
Biome
The biome you're standing in
ChunkNEW
Which chunk you're in, and where inside it
Clock
Your computer's time
CoinsNEW
Your Solar coin balance
Coordinates
Position and facing direction
Custom text
Any text you want on screen
Date
Today's date
Visual
Clean up the screen and tune how the game looks, only for you.Block outline
Color and thickness of the box you're aiming at
Clear potion view
Hides the swirls from your own potions so they don't block your screen
Crosshair
Your own crosshair: style, size and color
Fullbright
See in caves and at night without torches. Your brightness comes back when you turn it off
Hide boss bar
Removes the boss bar and the text servers put in it
Hit colorNEW
Pick the color players and mobs flash when they take damage
1.8.9HitboxesNEW
See every hitbox in your color, without the extra lines of F3+B
1.8.9Low fire
Lowers or hides the fire on your screen while burning
Chat
A chat that keeps up with you.AutoGG
Says gg for you when a game ends
Chat background
The dark box behind chat messages. Turn off for a clean chat with only the text
Chat filter
Hides chat messages that contain words you choose, like server ads or join spam
Chat timestamps
Every message shows when it arrived
Compact chat
Repeated messages stack into one line with (x3)
Longer chat history
Scroll back 1000 lines instead of 100
Mentions
Highlights messages with your name and plays a sound
Quick messages
Bind keys to chat messages or commands
Utility
Handy tools for everyday play.Copy screenshotsNEW
Every screenshot (F2) is copied for Discord, and a key shares it as a link
Death coordinates
When you die, your coordinates show in chat (only you see them)
FreelookNEW
Look around you without turning your player
Handy keys
One key to hide the Solar HUD for clean clips, another to copy your coordinates
MarkersNEW
Ping what you look at for your party, like in FPS games
Nick hider
Swaps your name everywhere on screen, for recording or streaming
SnaplookNEW
Hold a key to look behind you, like a rear-view mirror
TeamViewNEW
An arrow over every teammate, through walls: your Solar party and server teams (Lunar ones too)
What we don't ship: anything that reads information the server didn't send you on purpose. No player radar, no auto-clicking, no hitbox changes. If a server bans it, it isn't in Solar.
Servers can talk to your client.
With the free Solar Bridge plugin, a server can show you notifications, waypoints, cooldowns, titles and team markers, and switch off mods that don't fit its game mode. Look for the Solar features badge in the server list.
Notifications
Clean toasts instead of chat spam.
Waypoints & team markers
Objectives and teammates marked through walls.
Cooldowns
Pearl and ability timers above your hotbar.
Titles
Big centered titles, even on 1.7.10.
21× on 1.8.9, 16× on 1.7.10.
Compared with Minecraft as it ships, on the same PC. Against Minecraft with every limit turned off, Solar is still about 4.3× faster on 1.8.9.
Cached HUD
The HUD renders to a texture 60 times a second and gets pasted on every other frame. Visually identical, a lot cheaper.
No glGetError stalls
Vanilla asks the GPU about errors several times per frame, which forces the CPU to wait. We stop asking.
Distance culling
Distant items, mobs, armor stands, chests, signs, skulls and banners stop rendering. Players are never culled.
Uncapped menus
Minecraft limits menus to 30 FPS. Solar lets them run at your normal frame rate, so menus feel instant.
Background saver
15 FPS while the game window isn't focused, so alt-tabbing doesn't cook your GPU.
PvP graphics profile
VSync off, uncapped, VBOs on, no mipmaps, no entity shadows, no clouds. Applied once on first launch.
How the benchmark works
The client has a built-in benchmark mode. It creates a world with seed 4242, sets the time to noon, clears the weather and turns off the daylight cycle, puts the camera in the same spot facing the same way, waits for chunks to load, and then samples the frame rate once a second for 30 seconds.
We run it three ways on the same machine:
- Minecraft with default video settings — VSync on and a 120 FPS cap, the way most people first experience it. Average: 119 FPS on 1.8.9.
- Minecraft, uncapped — VSync off, unlimited frame rate, everything else default. Average: 590 FPS.
- Solar with the Max FPS profile and its optimizations on. Average: 2,540 FPS.
An empty flat-ish world is the best case for any client. On a busy server with dozens of players on screen, the CPU and the entity count take over and the gap gets smaller. It doesn't disappear — you'll feel it most in the dips.