diff --git a/BlueMapCore/src/main/java/de/bluecolored/bluemap/core/map/hires/HiresModelManager.java b/BlueMapCore/src/main/java/de/bluecolored/bluemap/core/map/hires/HiresModelManager.java
index 08dc946a..669cc71d 100644
--- a/BlueMapCore/src/main/java/de/bluecolored/bluemap/core/map/hires/HiresModelManager.java
+++ b/BlueMapCore/src/main/java/de/bluecolored/bluemap/core/map/hires/HiresModelManager.java
@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ public void render(World world, Vector2i tile, TileMetaConsumer tileMetaConsumer
         HiresTileModel model = HiresTileModel.instancePool().claimInstance();
 
         renderer.render(world, modelMin, modelMax, model, tileMetaConsumer);
-        if (save) save(model, tile);
+
+        if (save){
+            model.sort();
+            save(model, tile);
+        }
 
         HiresTileModel.instancePool().recycleInstance(model);
     }
diff --git a/BlueMapCore/src/main/java/de/bluecolored/bluemap/core/map/hires/HiresTileModel.java b/BlueMapCore/src/main/java/de/bluecolored/bluemap/core/map/hires/HiresTileModel.java
index 1dc263d7..df2dc87f 100644
--- a/BlueMapCore/src/main/java/de/bluecolored/bluemap/core/map/hires/HiresTileModel.java
+++ b/BlueMapCore/src/main/java/de/bluecolored/bluemap/core/map/hires/HiresTileModel.java
@@ -395,8 +395,6 @@ private void setCapacity(int capacity) {
     }
 
     public void writeBufferGeometryJson(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
-        sort();
-
         Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
         JsonWriter json = gson.newJsonWriter(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, StandardCharsets.UTF_8), 81920));
 
@@ -615,7 +613,7 @@ private void writeRounded(JsonWriter json, double value) throws IOException {
         else json.value(d);
     }
 
-    private void sort() {
+    public void sort() {
         if (size <= 1) return; // nothing to sort
 
         // initialize material-index-sort