About SmoothMaps
From ModrinthProvides smooth lighting for framed maps, paintings and rails.
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)
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 18 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.2.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogListed on Modrinth as “Mods”
Maps & scenarios
Custom maps, arenas and scenarios to play on.
Works on a server
From source side supportModrinth lists server-side support for SmoothMaps as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Game versions
- 26.2 and 17 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorBarnaby, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree
