Fluidworks

Fluidworks 1.6.0-preview.1

Added

• Fluidworks Lumen, an optional Vulkan-native shader pack for Realistic Water.

• Warm daylight, soft shadows, colored block lighting, procedural clouds, foliage wind, ambient occlusion, atmospheric haze, light shafts, wet-surface highlights, and bloom.

• Three quality profiles: Fast, Balanced, and High.

• Adjustable exposure, saturation, lighting effects, water clarity, refraction, physical-water reflections, and lava glow.

• Native rendering integration for physical water and lava in Realistic Water 1.2.3.

Performance and integration

• Physical-water reflection tracing uses 12 / 24 / 40 steps, depending on the quality profile, compared with the upstream 48 steps.

• Disabling screen-space reflections preserves the sky-reflection fallback.

• Spatial antialiasing works without temporal frame history.

• The bundled pack automatically appears in Realistic Water’s shader menu. Activation remains manual.

• Pack updates preserve user-edited ZIP files.

• Fluid rendering adjustments apply only while Lumen is active and do not modify fluid physics or saved Realistic Water settings.

Compatibility and validation

• Targets Minecraft 26.3, Fabric, and Realistic Water 1.2.3.

• Existing Smart Drain camouflage support for Sodium is preserved. Realistic Water recommends running its built-in shaders without Sodium.

• Passed compilation checks for 774 graphics shader modules, native fluid shaders, integration checks, and 41 server regression checks.

Preview release: full in-game visual testing and hardware performance measurements are still pending.