Grassier Grass

New features

• Grass plants as blades — Separated feature into a toggleable config
• Grass sparsity — thins blades inward from the randomized rims of each clump.
• Blade particles — grass blades occasionally shed into sufficiently strong wind, gliding downwind before settling.
• Blade hue jitter — individual blades get a stable hue offset, 0 disables it.
• Grass through snow — blades keep rendering when a snow layer covers the grass block.
• Shader-pack shadows — lets blades and re-rendered plants cast Iris/Oculus shadows. Off by default.
• Dynamic wind speed limit — scales the whole dynamic-wind range.
• Plant whitelist — force extra block ids to be hidden and re-rendered as grass blades, alongside the existing blacklist.
• Ferns now render as animated swaying plants.
• Config options are grouped into Grass Blades, World & Effects, and Color & Lighting categories.

Visual changes

• Tapered blade texture redrawn and raised from 32×64 to 128×256.
• Blades lean toward their clump centre at rest, and flutter phase varies per clump so neighbouring clumps no longer move in lockstep.
• Plants deform away from the player trail properly, and the deformation no longer jitters as you move.
• Broader blade curvature, smoother low-speed wind noise, and filtered noise sampling.
• Replaced short grass renders at the same height as the surrounding grass field.

Fixes

• minecraft:tall_seagrass is blacklisted from the swaying-plant pass by default, alongside seagrass and sea_pickle.

Changed defaults

Existing configs are untouched; these apply to fresh installs.

New options default to: grass sparsity 0.10, blade hue jitter 8°, dynamic wind speed limit 0.80x, grass plants as blades on, blade particles on, grass through snow off, shader-pack shadows off.