Reese's Sodium Options | A Cleaner Settings Screen

You load into a fresh world, decide the clouds have to go, and open your video settings. What greets you is a long wall of Sodium controls with no obvious grouping, and the one slider you actually want is hiding somewhere in the middle. Reese's Sodium Options (RSO) swaps that screen for a tabbed layout with a search bar built in, so the setting you need sits a click or two away instead of a scroll hunt. The idea has caught on, with around 79 million downloads so far. It changes nothing about how Sodium renders your game, only the screen you use to configure it.

Tabs, Search, and Collapsible Groups

Modern Sodium already ships a complete configuration screen, so RSO is an alternative frontend rather than a fix for a missing feature. The difference is organization. Settings live on scrollable pages reached through a vertical tab list, and a search bar finds any option by name when you do not feel like browsing. Mod tabs collapse into groups, with behavior you can configure, and option groups collapse inside each page to keep long menus readable. Tab headers are customizable too, down to icons and version labels, so every page is identifiable at a glance. Optional color themes restyle the option pages and controls if the default look is not for you.

One thing to know before you install. RSO needs Sodium, because it takes over Sodium's options screen directly. On its own it does nothing. If you have not tried Sodium yet, our Sodium guide covers the performance side of that mod and why so many players run it.

Undo, Reset, and Slider Controls

Tweaking settings in Minecraft usually means guessing, checking, and guessing again. RSO softens that loop. Every option carries a reset-to-default overlay, and anything you have modified gets an undo overlay as well, so a bad experiment costs you nothing. Sliders accept Shift while you scroll for finer adjustments, and optional reverse cycling changes the direction controls step through values.

The smaller touches add up too. Tooltip delay is configurable, so hints appear when you want them instead of instantly or never. You can also display option IDs next to settings, which is handy when you need to refer to one precisely in a bug report. None of this touches gameplay. It just makes the settings screen faster to work with.

If you want even more knobs to turn, Sodium Extra adds more graphics settings to Sodium.

Keyboard, Controller, and Accessibility Support

Mouse-free navigation gets real attention here. RSO improves keyboard navigation across the whole screen and shows focused option tooltips, so you always know which control you are about to change. UI narration is supported for players who rely on screen readers. If you play with a controller, the optional Controlify integration adds controller navigation and on-screen button guides.

Everything listed there is optional, and so is RSO itself. A built-in option disables it entirely and hands you back Sodium's default options screen, which makes this about as low-commitment as a UI tweak can get.

How to Install Reese's Sodium Options

1. Install Sodium first. RSO is a frontend for Sodium's options screen and does nothing without it.
2. Download the Reese's Sodium Options file from the official project page. Builds exist for Fabric, NeoForge, and Quilt, so grab the one that matches your loader.
3. Drop the jar into your mods folder next to Sodium.
4. Start the game with your modded profile. If you are setting up a loader from scratch, our Fabric install guide walks through the entire process.
5. Open your video settings in game. RSO's tabbed layout appears in place of Sodium's default screen.
6. Optional. Add Controlify as well if you want controller navigation and button guides.

Reese's Sodium Options FAQ

Does Reese's Sodium Options need Sodium to work? Yes. Sodium is the only requirement, since RSO replaces Sodium's options screen. Controlify is an optional integration for controller navigation, and nothing else is needed.

Is Reese's Sodium Options client side only? Yes. It is a client-side UI mod with no server component. It only changes the settings screen on your own client, so servers you join are unaffected and need nothing installed.

Does Reese's Sodium Options affect FPS? No. It swaps the options screen, not the rendering code. Your framerate comes from Sodium itself and the settings you choose, and RSO is simply a different way to reach those settings.

Is Reese's Sodium Options still maintained? Yes. The mod is actively maintained, with its most recent update released in July 2026. It is MIT licensed with public source code on GitHub. One note from the developer: RSO has no affiliation with CaffeineMC, so please do not ask them for support with it.

RSO is the kind of mod you stop noticing in the best way, because it quietly saves you a few clicks every time you open settings. If you are building a modded instance from scratch, start with our how to install Minecraft mods guide, and if the project saves you time, the official project page lists ways to support the developer.