diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6ad28d3149..30cc28e9cc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Changed
 - Entity-entity pushback is no longer applied in forced movement states like rolling and leaping.
 - Updated audio library (rodio 0.13 -> 0.14).
+- Improve entity-terrain physics performance by reducing the number of voxel lookups.
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/common/systems/src/phys.rs b/common/systems/src/phys.rs
index 613431035c..5852454f5f 100644
--- a/common/systems/src/phys.rs
+++ b/common/systems/src/phys.rs
@@ -1283,11 +1283,22 @@ fn box_voxel_collision<'a, T: BaseVol<Vox = Block> + ReadVol>(
         near_iter.filter_map(move |(i, j, k)| {
             let block_pos = pos.map(|e| e.floor() as i32) + Vec3::new(i, j, k);
 
+            // `near_iter` could be a few blocks too large due to being integer aligned and
+            // rounding up, so skip points outside of the tighter bounds before looking them
+            // up in the terrain (which incurs a hashmap cost for volgrids)
+            let player_aabb = Aabb {
+                min: pos + Vec3::new(-radius, -radius, z_range.start),
+                max: pos + Vec3::new(radius, radius, z_range.end),
+            };
+            let block_approx = Aabb {
+                min: block_pos.as_(),
+                max: block_pos.as_() + Vec3::new(1.0, 1.0, Block::MAX_HEIGHT),
+            };
+            if !player_aabb.collides_with_aabb(block_approx) {
+                return None;
+            }
+
             if let Some(block) = terrain.get(block_pos).ok().copied().filter(hit) {
-                let player_aabb = Aabb {
-                    min: pos + Vec3::new(-radius, -radius, z_range.start),
-                    max: pos + Vec3::new(radius, radius, z_range.end),
-                };
                 let block_aabb = Aabb {
                     min: block_pos.map(|e| e as f32),
                     max: block_pos.map(|e| e as f32) + Vec3::new(1.0, 1.0, height(&block)),