How to Keep Smooth Performance While Using the X-Ray Texture Pack

When you enable the X-Ray Texture Pack, the game suddenly has to render every visible ore cluster, gravel pocket, and underground structure within your view distance instead of culling them behind solid stone and dirt. Even though the pack keeps the standard 16x block resolution, rendering thousands of underground blocks at once can cause frame drops.

Adjusting Render Distance for Mining

You do not need to see ores dozens of chunks away while digging by hand. Lowering your render distance reduces the number of underground blocks on screen and makes nearby veins easier to read.

1. Press Esc, open Options, and select Video Settings.

2. Lower the Render Distance slider until only the chunks immediately surrounding your mining area are loaded.

3. Enable the X-Ray Texture Pack from the Resource Packs menu.

Turning Off Conflicting Shaders and Lighting

If you use a shader loader such as Iris or OptiFine, active shader packs can interfere with how transparent ground blocks and Night Vision potions look underground.

1. Open Options and go to Video Settings.

2. Open your Shaders menu and turn shaders off before enabling the X-Ray pack.

3. If dark shadows still obscure distant ores, set Smooth Lighting to Off in Video Settings so every visible 16x ore block renders with flat, clear brightness.