Aetherstone

Performance

• Solid terrain now skips the transparency test.
• Sun and moon checks for bloom, god rays and lens flare run once per frame instead of once per pixel.
• Vanilla clouds are no longer built when the pack's own clouds are on.
• Cheaper shadow, caustic and Physics Mod ocean maths with the same look.
• Wet surfaces in rain skip a cloud reflection that was barely visible.

Visuals

• Moving edges are sharper: TAA now follows the nearest surface around each pixel.
• God rays show no cross-hatch pattern.
• Cloud edges glow brighter toward the sun.
• Leaf and grass sheen is stronger at night.

Fixes

• Cloud shadows over other shadows no longer leave a light band with a bright fringe.
• Fixed black specks inside soft leaf and grass shadows (TAA off, or with Pixel Shadows).
• Fixed the dot pattern along shadow edges with TAA off.
• Cloud shadows now fall on water and mobs.
• Fine Waves and Ripple Strength now work on textured water.
• Fixed a rare stuck bright pixel in TAA.

Profiles

There are now 10 profiles, colour-coded from red (low quality) to green (high): Potato, Realistic Balanced, Balanced, Realistic Recommended (new default), Recommended, Alt Style, Realistic Pretty, Pretty, Realistic Max, Max.

• Realistic profiles: the same quality as the tier they copy, with natural colours, teal water, no ink outline and no warm shadow edge.
• Alt Style (was Pretty Alt Style): now sits before Pretty, with vivid colours and swell-based water.
• Balanced drops minor effects (cloud shadows, screen reflections, wet surfaces, caustics and others). Shadow distance 112 → 96.
• Potato: cloud shadows off.
• Recommended: PBR off by default, and reflections take 2 samples instead of 4.
• All profiles: procedural cloud shadows at strength 0.85.
• New Leaf Brightness, Split Tone and water colour options are now part of every profile.