Any way to go over the 32 Chunk render distance limit without changing the options file? I tried changing and it indicates it is rendering 64 chunks but it is indeed still rendering 32 chunks.

While this is likely not the answer you want to hear, Sodium will likely never add the ability to go past a 32 chunk render distance (the Vanilla limit that you can't circumvent with just the options file). As such, it is up to other mods to enable higher than 32 chunk render distances.

You can join the CaffeineMC discord to ask in the lounge channel for mods that do this.

Duplicate of #178