Podium

Pojav + Sodium = Podium

A minimal Mixin-based mod that disables Sodium's check for PojavLauncher usage. Requires Sodium to be installed.

Important Note

This mod does not guarantee magical compatibility of Sodium with all devices or graphics systems. Compatibility issues remain your responsibility.

System Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.21.x
• Loader: Fabric (version 0.15 or newer)
• Java: 21 or newer
• Sodium: 0.5.13 or newer
• Launcher: PojavLauncher with MobileGlues or LTW

What's the Issue Between Sodium and PojavLauncher?

Sodium completely replaces Minecraft's standard graphics engine with a more optimized one, but this has its consequences. PojavLauncher often encounters problems when working with mods that radically change the graphics system - exactly what Sodium does.

These incompatibilities led to game crashes and graphical artifacts when using Sodium in Pojav. As a result, users (mostly children) flooded the Sodium support service with questions about problems that weren't actually the mod's fault. This quickly became annoying, so the Sodium developers added a launcher check.

Initially, it was just a warning. Starting from Sodium 0.6.13 (or 0.5.13 for version 1.20.1), the game now crashes.

Why is This Mod Needed Then?

Excellent question.

Yes, Sodium and Pojav have historically been incompatible, but the situation is changing. Pojav uses so-called renderers, which serve as an intermediate layer between the game's graphics code and mobile hardware. Old renderers were notoriously bad: either very slow or completely non-functional with anything beyond vanilla Minecraft.

But now we have MobileGlues and LTW - two modern renderers that significantly improve both compatibility and performance:

• MobileGlues: Developed by Swung0x48, offers stable compatibility and decent performance.
• LTW: Created by Artdell, provides amazing performance and excellent compatibility with Sodium.

Thanks to these solutions, using Sodium in PojavLauncher no longer guarantees crashes and graphical issues. Podium simply removes the forced game termination mechanism.

License

MIT. Do whatever you want.