World Mirror

[0.5.0] — 2026-10-18

Added

• Added an in-world chunk overlay showing queued captures, chunks captured in the current session, and previously saved chunks. Source worlds and mirror worlds have independent visibility settings; K toggles the setting for the current world type. Thanks to @cev-api for the original PR #14.

Changed

• Prepared lightweight overlay state before drawing, reused the map's indexed snapshots and bounded bucket sizing, and merged adjacent same-colour tiles. The default overlay radius is 128 chunks; larger views use coarse tiles.
• Fixed degenerate faces in the chunk-box geometry and prevented distant outlines from fading to the sky's fog colour. Kept the PR's Gradle cache-path change separate from this release.
• Restored visible grid lines in both directions, with a switch for same-status interior boundaries, and reduced the default fill and outline opacity to 60% of its previous strength. Removed translucent internal side faces that left one-directional stripes even when the grid was hidden.
• Kept the optional Xaero bridge off the development client's runtime classpath, so World Mirror can launch without Xaero's World Map installed.
• Kept the custom Cloth Config select for enums. Boolean and short bounded integer fields can opt into it explicitly; current fields use their default controls. The 8–16384 chunk overlay radius uses a bounded text field for exact values.
• Stopped in-world overlay extraction when it is hidden, including under F1 by default. A separate setting can keep it visible under F1.

Fixed

• Added opt-in development Xaero bridge runtime dependencies with -PxaeroIntegration=true, while keeping startup without Xaero supported.
• Render the in-world overlay after water, clouds, and transparency composition on the classic path, with the grid drawn after the fill. Minecraft 26.3 retains native improved-transparency rendering.
• Keep chunk boxes while blending only their camera-facing shell, avoiding doubled opacity from front and back faces.