Unsupported Mods and Clients (+ Workarounds/Fixes)

Not everything that works on PC works on PojavLauncher. Below is a non-exhaustive list of mods that may not work, along with fixes or workarounds.

Performance Mods + Shaders

• Sodium (opens new window)
  • GL4ES Patch (opens new window)
  • 0.5.x and later does not work without disabling the terrain optimization mixins. It's not recommended and therefore isn't faster than Vanilla/Optifine
• Embeddium (opens new window)
  • Same problem as Sodium
• Rubidium (opens new window)
  • Gl4ES Patch (opens new window) for GL4ES, otherwise same as the previous two
• Chlorine (opens new window)
• ShadersMod (GLSL Shaders) (opens new window)
• Iris (opens new window), Iris Installer (opens new window)
• OptiFine (opens new window)
  • Render Regions don't work
• Optifine Shaders: The only supported shaders are Open4ES (opens new window) for GL4ES. It works best with Adreno graphics (found in Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs) and PowerVR graphics, with required patches (found in several low-end MediaTek SoCs). Mali GPUs are not supported. Below is a list of smartphones that are tested and works with Open4ES:
  • Xiaomi Poco F3 (Snapdragon 870)
  • Xiaomi Poco X5 Pro (Snapdragon 778G)
  • Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 (Snapdragon 665)
  • Oppo A53 (Snapdragon 460)
• Distant Horizons(2.0> only) (opens new window)
  • install this mod (opens new window)

Skyblock Mods

• Essential (opens new window)
• Skytils (opens new window)
  • 1.3.0-pre5 (opens new window) works
• Patcher (opens new window)
  • 1.6.1 (opens new window) works
• NotEnoughUpdates (opens new window)
  • 2.1.1-pre-1 (opens new window) works
• Skyblock Extras (opens new window)

Input-related Mods

• MidnightControls (opens new window)
• Controllable (opens new window)
• MouseTweaks (opens new window)
  • Almost all of them don't work because they aren't made with Android's inputs in mind

Other Mods

• WebDisplays (opens new window)
• Axiom (opens new window)
• Mekanism (opens new window)
  • Use angle/zink renderer.
• Quartz (opens new window)
• Legacy4J (opens new window)
  • Set selectedControllerHandler in options.txt to 0
• Create (Forge) (opens new window) (Fabric) (opens new window)
  • On gl4es disable flywheel by running "/flywheel backend off" in game (Only works on phones with an adrenos GPUs)
  • Or use angle/zink renderer.
• Flywheel (opens new window)
• Physics Mod (opens new window)
• Scannable (opens new window)
  • Works on 1.12
• Colormatic (opens new window)
• ItemPhysic (opens new window)
  • Lite (opens new window) works
• RandomPatches (Forge) (opens new window) (Fabric) (opens new window)
• Smooth Font (opens new window)
• MrCrayfish's Gun Mod (opens new window)
  • 1.16.5 is broken
• Applied Energistics (opens new window), Applied Energistics 2 (opens new window)
• Zombe (opens new window)
• ReplayMod (opens new window)
  • FFMPEG is wrongly placed
• Dynamic Surroundings (opens new window)
  • White textures on 1.12
• Immersive Vehicles (opens new window)
  • Only broken on Forge
• Immersive Engineering (opens new window)
  • Works on 1.12
• Immersive Portals (opens new window)
  • Use zink renderer.
• Immersive Railroading (opens new window)
• Immersive Engineering (opens new window)
• DiscordRPC (opens new window)
  • If your PvP/Hack Client crashes because of this, contact their developers for a fix.

Unsupported Clients

• BatMod (opens new window)
• LabyMod (opens new window)
• MysteryMod (opens new window)
• Lunar Client (opens new window)
  • ".exe"
• Badlion Client (opens new window)
  • ".exe"
• Salwyrr Client (opens new window)
  • You can't use a launcher in a launcher
• Meteor Client (opens new window)
• Pizza Client (opens new window)
• Cheeto Client (opens new window)
• 3arthh4ck (opens new window)
  • Patched (opens new window) version
• Ares Client (opens new window)

Credits

• https://github.com/Mathias-Boulay/ and all the people in issue #1948 (opens new window)
• https://github.com/ZenZenXDz
• https://github.com/revoscode
• https://github.com/GaucovyAero