The Performance Update:30% more FPS, sharing in Laby Chat and two new minigames

The new update is out, and this one is mostly about performance. On average, our players now get 30% more FPS with Laby Client. You don't need to set anything up for it, it's all active right away.

You can also send your skin, HUD or settings to friends in Laby Chat now, and there are two new games in the Minigames tab.

30% more FPS

The 30% comes from many smaller optimizations working together. Each one saves the game a bit of work, and you'll notice it most when there's a lot going on around you.

The main new options:

• Entity Culling: Mobs, players, chests, signs and the like are no longer drawn when they're hidden behind solid blocks. This helps most in busy areas. If you want, the same goes for armor stand names and, from Minecraft 1.19.4, for text, block and item displays.
• Faster Entities & Name Tags: Players, mobs, their name tags and the text Laby Client shows above them take less work to draw.
• Faster Menus & HUD (Minecraft 1.21.8 and newer): Menus and the HUD are only redrawn when something in them changes or your monitor shows a new picture. Menu & HUD Updates lets you set how often per second that happens.
• Lighter Frames (Minecraft 26.3 and newer): The game no longer redoes work on every frame when it doesn't have to.
• Faster Clouds (1.8.9 and 1.12.2 without OptiFine): Fancy clouds look exactly like before, but they aren't rebuilt every frame anymore.

On top of that, Minecraft 26.3 and 26.4 render the world faster, 1.8.9 and 1.12.2 run smoother, and Laby Client starts up faster.

All of these are on by default. If something ever looks off, you can turn each one off separately in the Mods menu under Performance.

Share your setup in Laby Chat

Spent ages getting your HUD just right, and now a friend wants the same one? Just send it over in Laby Chat. That works for outfits, skins, chat tabs, AutoTexts, your cursor, your HUD layout and settings like hit markers or theme colors.

To share something, use the button in the chat input. You can also send your HUD layout straight from the widget editor, and settings straight from their row in the Mods menu.

Before applying anything, your friend sees exactly what it changes. And if it's not for them after all, skins, HUD layouts and settings can be undone.

Two new minigames

There are two new games in the Minigames tab.

In Parkour Jump you jump from block to block, higher and higher, all the way to the End. On the way up, morning turns into night and then into space. You play in your own skin, get advancements at certain heights and might find an easter egg or two along the way.

In Minesweeper you dig up the meadow and flag the TNT. Every level has its own best time to beat.

What else is new

• Hide viewer counts on LIVE: Show Live Streams has two new modes. Hide Own Viewer Count hides your own viewer count from your screen, and Hide All Viewer Counts shows just LIVE above everyone.
• Flux addon: You don't need the Flux addon anymore, because performance is now built right into Laby Client. It no longer loads and has been removed from the addon store.
• 11 bug fixes, including clicks in Minecraft 26.4 menus landing one row too low and resource packs for 1.12.2 wrongly showing up as incompatible.

You'll find every change in the changelog.

Get the update

The update is available now. Just start the Laby Launcher and it updates the client for you. Don't have Laby Client yet? Download it here.

Spotted a bug or have an idea? Let us know on our feedback platform. A lot of what ends up in our updates started there.