(Poly)Patcher "Alternatives"

PolyPatcher is a fork of Patcher and is a 1.8.9/1.12.2 performance, bug fix, and QOL mod. There is no version for newer Minecrafts, and so this is not a real alternatives list in the usual sense.

This list is based off all features that exist in PolyPatcher and/or Patcher, as some features may only exist in one but not the other.

Bug Fixes

• Most Bug Fixes - Debugify
• Keep Shaders on Perspective change - Irrelevant
• Parallax Fix - Vanilla
• Culling Fix - Vanilla
• Layers In Tab - Vanilla
• Player Void Rendering - Vanilla
• Alex Arm Position - Vanilla
• Add Background to Book GUI - Vanilla
• Resource Exploit Fix - Vanilla
• Forge Chest Behavior - Irrelevant
• Vanilla Held Item Lighting - Irrelevant
• OptiFine Custom Sky Fix - Irrelevant
• Sky Height - Smooth Skies

Experimental

• Entry Point Caching - Irrelevant
• HUD Caching - Exordium
• Cache FPS - Exordium
• Improved Skin Rendering - ?

Miscellaneous

• Remove Ground Foliage - ?
• 1.12 Farm Selection Boxes - Vanilla
• Exclude Cacti from 1.12 Boxes - ?
• Remove Water FOV - Overlay Tweaks
• FOV Modifier - Vanilla (All FOV's can be changed in Vanilla's accessibility menu, but they can't be modified individually)
• Sprinting FOV - Vanilla
• Flying FOV - Vanilla
• Bow FOV - Vanilla
• Speed FOV - Vanilla
• Slowness FOV - Vanilla
• Better Keybind Handling - Vanilla
• Separate Sound & Texture Reloading - ?
• Disable Hotbar Scrolling - Scroll Tweaks
• Invert Hotbar Scrolling - Scroll Tweaks
• Prevent Overflow Hotbar Scrolling - Scroll Tweaks
• Crosshair Perspective - Crosshair Tweaks
• Unfocused Sounds - juliand665's Dynamic FPS
• Unfocused FPS - juliand665's Dynamic FPS
• Unfocused FPS Amount - juliand665's Dynamic FPS
• Log Optimizer - altrisi's Log Cleaner
• Log Optimizer Amount - altrisi's Log Cleaner
• Better Camera - Vanilla
• Better F1 - Nametag Tweaks
• Remove Screen Bobbing - Shake Tweaks
• Remove Map Bobbing - Shake Tweaks
• Static Items - Dropped Item Tweaks
• Modify Every Sound - Sound Controller
• Natural Capes - ?
• Smooth Scrolling - Smooth Scrolling
• Zoom Adjustment - Zoomify
• Remove Smooth Camera While Zoomed - Zoomify
• Render Hand While Zoomed - Zoomify
• Zoom Sensitivity - Zoomify
• Dynamic Zoom Sensitivity - Zoomify
• Smooth Zoom Animation - Zoomify
• Smooth Scroll-to-Zoom Animation - Zoomify
• Smooth Zoom Function - Zoomify
• Toggle to Zoom - Zoomify
• Simplify FPS Counter - Zoomify
• Use Vanilla Metrics Renderer - Irrelevant
• Nausea Effect / Distortion Effects - Vanilla
• Disable Achievements - Sodium Extra
• Fire Overlay Height - Overlay Tweaks
• Fire Overlay Opacity - Overlay Tweaks
• Hide Fire Overlay with Fire Resistance - Overlay Tweaks
• Pumpkin Overlay Opacity - Overlay Tweaks
• Remove Water Overlay - Overlay Tweaks
• Remove Inverted Colors from Crosshair - Crosshair Tweaks
• Fullbright - Methane
• Smart Fullbright - Methane
• Disable Night Vision - Better Night Vision
• Cleaner Night Vision - Better Night Vision
• Show Own Nametag - Nametag Tweaks
• Clean Projectiles - Vanilla
• Ridden Horse Opacity - Mount Opacity
• Water Fog Density - ?
• Hide Aura on Invisible Withers - Vanilla
• Numerical Enchantments - Numerical Enchantments
• Translate Unknown Roman Numerals - Numerical Enchantments
• Clean View - LainMI's CleanView
• Disable Breaking Particles - Sodium Extra
• Disable Lightning Bolts - Render Tweaks
• Alternate Text Shadow - Sciophobia
• Add Text Shadow to Nametags - Nametag Tweaks
• Add Text Shadow to Actionbar - Debugify
• Add Background to Actionbar - ?
• Disable Text Shadow - Sciophobia
• Left Hand in First Person - Vanilla
• Toggle Tab - ?
• Number Ping - Tab Tweaks
• Disable Titles - Title Tweaks
• Title Scale - Title Tweaks
• Automatically Scale Title - Title Tweaks
• Title Opacity - Title Tweaks
• Windowed Fullscreen - Cubes Without Borders
• Instant Fullscreen - Cubes Without Borders
• Fix Action Bar Overlap - Vanilla

Performance

• List of Performance Mods - List
• Entity Culling - Entity Culling
• Entity Culling Interval - Entity Culling
• Smart Entity Culling - Irrelevant
• Don't Cull Ender Dragons - Irrelevant
• Don't Cull Withers - Irrelevant
• Don't Cull Player Nametags - Irrelevant
• Don't Cull Entity Nametags - Irrelevant
• Don't Cull Armorstand Nametags - Irrelevant
• Check Armorstand Rules - Irrelevant
• Entity Back-face Culling - ?
• Player Back-face Culling - ?
• Disable Armorstands - Sodium Extra
• Disable Semitransparent Players - ?
• Disable Enchantment Books - Sodium Extra
• Disable Item Frames - Sodium Extra
• Disable Mapped Item frames - ?
• Disable Grounded Arrows - ?
• Disable Attached Arrows - ?
• Disable Skulls - ?
• Disable Falling Blocks - ?
• Disable Nametags Boxes - Nametag Tweaks
• Unstacked Items - Dropped Item Tweaks
• Entity Render Distance Toggle - Entity View Distance
• Tile Entity Render Distance - Entity View Distance
• Hostile Entity Render Distance - Entity View Distance
• Passive Entity Render Distance - Entity View Distance
• Player Entity Render Distance - Entity View Distance
• Global Entity Render Distance - Entity View Distance
• Disable End Portals - ?
• Disable Enchantment Glint - ?
• Static Particle Color - Particle Core (Improves performance of brightness calculations to make it not an issue instead of removing it entirely)
• Max Particle Limit - Particle Core
• Downscale Pack Images - ?
• Optimized Font Renderer - ImmediatelyFast
• Cache Font Data - ImmediatelyFast
• Optimized World Swapping - kennytv's Epic Force Close Loading Screen
• Limit Chunk Updates - Sodium
• Chunk Update Limit - Sodium
• Low Animation Tick - Sodium
• Batch Model Rendering - Sodium

Screens

• 1.11 Chat Length - Vanilla
• Remove Chat Message Limit - Chat Plus
• Transparent Chat - Vanilla (Affects all text backgrounds)
• Transparent Chat Input Field - Vanilla (Affects all text backgrounds)
• Extend Chat Background - Chat Plus
• Compact Chat - Chat Plus
• Consecutive Compact Chat - Chat Plus
• Compact Chat Time - Chat Plus
• Remove Blank Messages - ?
• Shift Chat - Chat Plus
• Chat Delay - Vanilla
• Chat Position - Chat Plus
• Chat Timestamps - Chat Plus
• Chat Timestamps Style - Chat Plus
• Chat Timestamps Format - Chat Plus
• Show Seconds on Timestamps - Chat Plus
• Safe Chat Clicks - ?
• Damage Glance - ?
• Item Count Glance - ?
• Enchantment Glance - ?
• Protection Percentage - ?
• Projectile Protection Percentage - ?
• Container Backgrounds / Container Background Opacity - Overlay Tweaks
• Container Opacity - Overlay Tweaks
• GUI Crosshair - Crosshair Tweaks
• Startup Notification - Startup Time
• Clean Main Menu - Irrelevant
• Open to LAN Replacement - ?
• Smart Disconnect - ?
• Image Preview - ?
• Image Preview Width - ?
• Inventory Position - Vanilla
• Click Out of Containers - ?
• Inventory Scale - Inventory Scale
• Tab Opacity - Tab Tweaks
• Tab Height - Tab Tweaks
• Set Tab Height - Tab Tweaks

Screenshots

• Favorite Screenshot - ?
• Delete Screenshot - Screencapper
• Upload Screenshot - Screencapper
• Copy Screenshot - Screencapper
• Open Screenshots Folder - Screencapper
• Screenshot Manager - Screencapper
• Auto Copy Screenshot - Screencapper
• Screenshot Preview - Screencapper