Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 2 Released: Visual Improvements

Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 2 has been released. This update focuses on technical improvements, including render distance fog, sky visibility, and various bug fixes.

Visual and Interface Updates

When the "Improved Transparency" setting is enabled, the sky background and clouds now blend more smoothly with terrain fog, eliminating the harsh transition line between the sky and the terrain. Additionally, in the Overworld, the lower half of the sky has been updated to correctly obscure celestial bodies such as the sun, moon, and stars. The debug screen (F3) has been completely redesigned for better readability and clarity.

Technical Changes

With this update, the Data Pack version has been raised to 122.1, and the Resource Pack version to 99.0. New environment attributes for managing sky occlusion and new height checks such as "below_heightmap" have been added. On the shader side, various adjustments were made to performance and visual effects, along with updates to several shader files.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where fog overlapped with the sky during underwater sunrises and sunsets.
• Corrected a typo in the "Oh Shiny" advancement.
• Resolved Z-fighting issues around the necks of small armor stands.
• Fixed an issue where statistics would not increment when placing lily pads and frogspawn.
• Corrected a scaling error in the baby ghast harness layer.
• Fixed an issue where block breaking particles would persist when opening the game mode switcher or during item trading.
• Fixed an issue where mouse input was not detected on monitors at negative coordinates on Wayland.

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