Zoom
Horizon · Native mod
Horizon's official zoom mod: hold Z to zoom in, scroll for up to 10x, let go and your normal view snaps back.
Playing now on the Official SMP: 71
Minecraft in Rust. Same game. Only faster.
Horizon is Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 rewritten from scratch in Rust. Same worlds, same servers, same friends — without the Java VM: less memory, fewer hitches, higher FPS. Get the launcher, mods and shaders here, with guides that get each one running.
- 2.6×less memory than Java Edition
- −70%hitches on a gaming PC
- 209FPS vs 126 on a 2016 laptop
- +34%faster into the world
The Horizon team's benchmarks on three computers, Oct–Nov 2026 · playhorizon.dev/benchmarks — including where Java still wins.
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You need your own Minecraft: Java Edition. Horizon is open source and not a Mojang or Microsoft product.
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FPS Counter
Horizon · Native mod
Horizon's official FPS counter: frames per second in a screen corner, plus the slowest frame and 1% low if you want them.
AppleSkin
sillysoufi · Native mod
AppleSkin for Horizon: see your saturation, exhaustion and what the food in your hand will restore, right on the hunger bar.
Minimap
Horizon · Native mod
Horizon's official minimap: the land around you in vanilla map colours, with your arrow, in a round or square frame.
Distant Horizons for Horizon Client
denizsahin7744, Deniz7744 · Native mod
An unofficial Rust port of Distant Horizons for Horizon: level-of-detail terrain out to 1024 chunks, saved to disk per world.
Mod Menu
tariksabanuz · Native mod
A Mods button on Horizon's title screen opening a Mod Menu-style list of every installed mod, with search, filters and settings.
Mouse Tricks
d3grando · Native mod
Inventory mouse tricks for Horizon: drag to spread or gather items, scroll to move them one at a time, press R to sort.
TreeFall
d3grando · Native mod
Chop one log of a natural tree with an axe and the whole tree comes down, with normal drops, hunger and axe wear.
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Latest releases
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Kotost Bust
Kotost Games · Native mod
A bust drawn from your own skin that bounces only when you move, an hourglass figure, chestplates in its shape.
Kotost Chest
Kotost Games · Native mod
Two buttons beside a chest's sort button: everything into the chest, everything out of it.
Kotost First Person
Kotost Games · Native mod
Your own body, legs and arms in first person, items in your 3D hands, the game's hands for eating.
Kotost Roulette
Kotost Games · Native mod
Stake game items, spin a wheel, win a dearer item or lose the stake. Every item has a price in points; Russian and English.
Atomic Industry
bioneisme · Modpack
Nuclear bombs, deep quarries, factories and wayfarer stones, with JEI, Jade and quality-of-life mods.
Better Dynamic Lights
DeportedToHell · Native mod
Horizon's built-in dynamic lights, with more: glowing creatures, projectiles and TNT shine too, water puts out fire, a switch for every light.
Salvage
CGRLabs · Content mod
Smelt old leather gear, saddles and wooden tools back into useful materials.
Shaders
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Wisdom Shaders V3 (Horizon port)
bobcao3, iLoong · Shader pack
An unofficial port of bobcao3's Wisdom Shaders V3 to Horizon: soft shadows, rich atmosphere, AgX tonemapping, bloom and FXAA.
Wisdom Shaders V3 Lite (Horizon port)
bobcao3, tomasmendes01 · Shader pack
The lighter Wisdom Shaders V3 port for Horizon: the same light, fog and AgX tonemap, with the expensive effects trimmed for FPS.
Daybreak
hildlabs · Shader pack
A lightweight Horizon shader pack: sun and moon shadows, reflective water, waving plants, coloured block light, sun rays and bloom.
Montarc
Muurrcc · Shader pack
A bright, colourful Horizon shader pack: soft shadows, coloured light, living water, wind, and a distinct Nether and End. 29 options.
Fresh reads
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Best Horizon Mods (November 2026)
The Horizon mods worth installing first, picked from the official registry: HUD, minimap, inventory, recipes, tree felling. Downloads as of 9 November 2026.
Best Horizon Shaders (November 2026): All 9 Packs Compared
All nine Horizon-format shader packs in the registry, sorted by GPU cost: Wisdom ports, Daybreak, Montarc, Radiant, Lumina, Lumen, Pastel Mystic and Nimbe.
Data Packs in Horizon: What Works Today and How to Add Them
Horizon runs data pack functions, function tags, predicates and item modifiers, but not yet custom recipes, loot tables, advancements or world generation.
Differential Harnesses: How Horizon Checks Itself Against Vanilla
A differential harness feeds the same inputs to Horizon and vanilla 26.3 and compares outputs. What the harnesses cover, how they run, what they cannot prove.
What Horizon is
Horizon is Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 rewritten from scratch in Rust. It isn't a mod or a fork of the Java code: game logic, rendering and networking are new, and behaviour is checked against vanilla by automated "differential harnesses" — 281 of them, per the repository description. It's open source (MIT), built by an independent team, and not an official Mojang or Microsoft product.
You need your own Minecraft: Java Edition to play: Horizon ships none of Mojang's code or assets and builds the game files from your copy. After that it behaves like Minecraft — worlds from 1.8 to 26.2 upgrade on open, and a vanilla 26.3 client can join a Horizon server and vice versa.
Why bother? The project's own benchmarks show fewer hitches and higher average FPS than Java Edition on three machines, from a 2016 laptop to a gaming PC — and they say where Java still wins (playhorizon.dev/benchmarks). Horizon has its own mods — native ones in Rust and data-only content mods. This site catalogs them with plain-English write-ups; start with What Horizon is.