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Features

Built for speed. Gilded in gold.

Everything you read here is built and tested – with real measurements from development. What's still missing is listed openly on the roadmap.

Performance

A native Rust launcher – no Electron, no web tech. And for 26.3, a Rust engine of its own.

  • Launcher: first frame after ~300 ms, of which Apophis itself needs ~3 ms
  • Apophis Runtime: 3 to 4 times the FPS at render distance 16, twice the 1 % lows
  • 9 times faster startup, less than half the memory
  • Fresh install of 26.3 in 4.9 s instead of 27.6 s – files from other launchers are reused
  • Idle mode: 0.2 % instead of 12.8 % of one CPU core in the background
  • JVM presets with G1 and Generational ZGC
1.7 sto the title screen (Runtime)
Launcher: Play
Active profile, one-click launch and the animated “Obsidian & Gold” desert scene.

Companion Mod

A Fabric mod for 19 Minecraft versions that brings your profile's feature switches into the game.

  • Minecraft 1.20 – 26.3 in 12 jars, each verified with an in-world self-test
  • Zoom, freecam, fullbright, chunk borders, waypoints, build tools, spawn sphere, minimap, HUD layout
  • Telemetry: avg FPS, 1 % low, frametime p99, peak memory, chunks/s – straight into the benchmarks
  • The required Fabric API modules are bundled in the jar
19Minecraft versions
Companion: cosmos & cosmetics
Cosmos sky, pharaoh headdress, glyph relics and motion blur in the Fabric companion mod.

Visual Effects

Warm gold in the highlights, turquoise in the shadows, sand instead of glitter – or the violet Cosmos look.

  • Biome ambience, sand trail, shockwave, hit sparks, build animation
  • Golden block outline with break progress, Apophis crosshair, feature toasts
  • Colour grading, chromatic aberration, depth of field, motion blur
  • In-game menu on Right Shift – changes apply instantly
Post-processing
Colour grading, depth of field and ambience particles in the Apophis Runtime.

Profiles

Every profile is its own client – with its own folder, its own mods and its own look.

  • Create, duplicate, export/import as .apophis and share codes
  • Workspace with banner and tabs: Overview, Mods, Resource Packs, Shaders, Settings, Performance, Game Features
  • Feature switches per profile → config/apophis/features.json
  • Multiple Microsoft accounts, stored safely in the system keyring
Launcher: Profiles
Every profile is its own client – with its own folder, its own mods and its own look.

Mod Integration

Modrinth and CurseForge right inside the launcher – search, install, update, roll back.

  • Built-in browser for mods, resource packs and shaders with screenshots and descriptions
  • Dependency preview, conflicts, updates, rollback
  • Modpack import: .mrpack, CurseForge .zip, .noriskpack
  • Instance import from the CurseForge app, Modrinth App, Prism, MultiMC and Minecraft Launcher
Launcher: Mods
Installed mods with switches, discovery via Modrinth and CurseForge.

Discord Rich Presence

“Using the Apophis Launcher” – and while you play: profile, Minecraft version and loader.

  • Its own IPC client without an SDK, protocol verified against a running Discord
  • The Apophis Runtime reports through the Apophis app too
  • Can be switched off in the settings

Custom Rendering

The Apophis Runtime is a fifth launch mode: a Rust engine on wgpu for Minecraft 26.3.

  • Signed build, game files prepared from your own 26.3 copy
  • LOD far view: Balanced 256, Quality 512, Ultra 1024 chunks
  • Visuals as native Rust mods – the same look as in Java mode
  • Session passed via standard input, never on the command line
1024chunks of far view (Ultra)
Far view (LOD)
The engine's LOD far view – up to 1024 chunks with the Ultra preset.

Custom Weather

Weather as particles in a shared pool – not as an overlay.

  • Sandstorm: horizontal streaks of sand plus a light sand haze over the HUD
  • Glass rain: thin streaks along the direction of fall
  • Nile mist: in the morning over water and in hollows, fading as the sun rises
  • Denser snow
Mist & cosmos
Deep, soft banks of mist below height ~86 – bluish at night.

Atmosphere

A sky from ancient Egypt – or from deep space.

  • Corona of Ra, Sky of Nut with the Milky Way, Nile aurora, Eclipse of Apophis at new moon
  • Golden haze on the horizon at sunrise and sunset
  • Cosmos: violet dome, ringed planet, black hole with accretion disk, aurora, shooting stars
  • Ambience styles: Lights, Stardust, Petals, Snow – or automatic per biome
Cosmos sky
Violet dome, ringed planet and aurora – drawn on sky pixels only.

And also

The details that make the difference.

Launch window

11 steps with timings, live log, search, filter and export. Errors with cause and solutions.

Benchmarks

Preparation, start to title screen, world load time – plus telemetry from the companion mod.

Live stats

RAM, CPU and FPS while you play, right in the launcher.

Self-updater

Ed25519-signed releases, SHA-256 verified, in-place swap of the running file.

English & German

A test enforces that every string is translated.

Idle mode

Animation stops 10 s after losing focus and while Minecraft is running.

Honestly: the limits

  • The Apophis Runtime only supports Minecraft 26.3 – older versions run in Java mode.
  • Fabric and Forge mods don’t run in Runtime mode.
  • The engine has 833 known gaps; parts of the game are missing or behave differently.
  • On large servers, deviating behaviour can trigger anti-cheat – Java mode is the safe choice there.
  • Forge and NeoForge are planned but don’t launch yet.
  • The Microsoft login is still waiting for Mojang to approve the Apophis app.
To the roadmap