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 # ModernFix
 
-A Forge 1.16 mod that uses mixins to make the game slightly more performant (and hopefully less buggy too).
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-In the words of asiekierka, questionable "performance improvements" that are not in Forge for probably very good reasons.
+A performance mod for modern Minecraft that significantly improves launch times, world load times, memory usage, etc.
 
 Some fixes are based on prior work in various Forge PRs (check commit history and/or code comments). The config system
 is directly derived from Sodium and used under the terms of the LGPL-3.0 license.