SmoothMaps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.3% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #5 of 343 decoration mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
# SmoothMaps A Minecraft mod to provide smooth lighting and performance improvements for framed maps, paintings and rails. Respects your smooth lighting setting and won't cause a noticeable performance hit. ### Features - Fast smooth lighting for framed maps - Fast smooth lighting for paintings - Enables smooth block lighting for rails - Improved painting performance by removing interior faces - Improved server-side map rendering performance (up to 60% faster) - Reduced GPU bandwidth overhead for map rendering (partial texture updates) !(https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/x69OnBPN/images/d81ba612a40cfa6f9fca2dd85a59d0fc57e5ba34.png)
# SmoothMaps A Minecraft mod to provide smooth lighting and performance improvements for framed maps, paintings and rails.
Respects your smooth lighting setting and won't cause a noticeable performance hit.
### Features - Fast smooth lighting for framed maps - Fast smooth lighting for paintings - Enables smooth block lighting for rails - Improved painting performance by removing interior faces - Improved server-side map rendering performance (up to 60% faster) - Reduced GPU bandwidth overhead for map rendering (partial texture updates)
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📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Minecraft Mods
- Author
- Barnaby
- Version
- 1.6.2
- Downloads
- 16,890
- Endorsements
- 48
- Category
- decoration
- Created
- 5/7/2025
- Updated
- 7/26/2026
- Game Versions
- 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, 26.2
- Tags
- decoration, optimization, utility
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Which Minecraft Mods versions does SmoothMaps support?
The author lists 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, 26.2. Other versions may work but are untested by the author.
What is the latest version of SmoothMaps?
Version 1.6.2, published 2026-07-26 with 16,890 downloads recorded at the source.
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