⚡ GOTHIC TWEAKS — Performance, Culling & World Ambiance

A lightweight, all-in-one optimization and visual enhancement mod designed for dark fantasy modpacks. Gothic Tweaks dramatically boosts framerates through smart render culling while upgrading world foliage and subterranean cave ambiance.

🚀 1. Performance & FPS Optimizations (Culling Engine)

• 👁️ Entity & Render Culling: Completely skips rendering blocks, creatures, and entities outside your direct field of view and render distance, resulting in massive FPS gains.
• 🍃 Smart Leaf Culling: Eliminates hidden inner-leaf geometry in dense forests, permanently fixing forest lag and stuttering.
• 🌿 Mangrove Roots Optimization: Drastically reduces GPU overhead in complex mangrove swamps.
• 🔥 Spawner Lag Fix: Optimizes mob spawner particle density and spinning models in dungeons to prevent underground frame drops.
• ⚡ Emberbium & Embeddium Native: Built to synchronize seamlessly with modern Sodium, Emberbium, and Embeddium render engines.

🚪 2. FastQuit (Instant Menu Exit)

Tired of staring at the frozen "Saving world..." screen?

• Background World Saving: FastQuit saves your singleplayer world securely on a background thread and returns you to the title screen instantly.

🖥️ 3. Video & Display Quality of Life

• 🪟 Borderless Fullscreen: Seamlessly Alt+Tab out of the game without black screens, monitor flickers, or game freezing.
• 📈 Built-in FPS Counter: A sleek, minimal framerate display directly in the corner of your screen.
• 🔍 FSR & Render Scaling: Integrated resolution upscaling and image sharpening settings.

🌲 4. Dark Fantasy World Ambiance

• 🌿 3D Round Foliage: Fluffy, rounded tree leaves, layered grass tufts, and enhanced ambient occlusion lighting without requiring heavy resource packs.
• 🕳️ True Darkness: Realistic pitch-black lighting in deep caverns and night skies when unlit by torches.
• 💨 Cave Gas Pockets: Atmospheric subterranean gas pockets and natural environmental smoke in deep mines.
• 🌊 Water Depth Tint: Water dynamically deepens in color the further down you dive.
• 🔮 Shader Compatibility (Emberlens & LumaLight): Prevents lighting and water artifacts when using Emberlens, Oculus, or Iris shader packs.

🎮 Compatibility & Specs

• Minecraft Version: 1.20.1 (Forge)
• Graphics Engines: Fully compatible with Emberbium, Emberlens, and standard Sodium/Embeddium setups.
• Client & Server: Works smoothly in singleplayer and on dedicated multiplayer servers.
• Plug & Play: Zero configuration needed out of the box.