1.1.0 > 1.3.4

Added

• Added additional dragon model and texture resource reuse across the remaining dragon species and renderer families.
• Added glow-layer resource reuse for Night Fury and Light Fury.
• Added saddle texture reuse while preserving dynamic variant selection and fallback behavior.
• Added temporary render-data reuse for Isle of Berk particle effects to reduce repeated allocations during particle rendering.
• Added reusable pathfinding data for flying dragon navigation and removed a redundant block-position update.
• Added repeated client lookup reuse for shock-particle and taming-particle effects.
• Added an optional client-side optimization that skips unnecessary passenger-render work when a dragon has no passengers and Variant Loader 2.7.0 is compatible.

Improved

• Combined the performance patches and optional passenger-render optimization into one companion JAR.
• Improved Variant Loader compatibility by allowing it to remain responsible for overlapping dragon model and resource selection whenever it is installed.
• Expanded that compatibility handling to support detected Variant Loader versions instead of relying only on an exact version match for the overlapping resource optimizations.
• Added safer compatibility checks for the optional passenger-render optimization so it disables itself when the installed Variant Loader layout is unsupported.
• Preserved dynamic resources, changing variants, fallback behavior, gameplay logic, damage timing, random-number behavior, networking, and world generation.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.18.2
• Forge 40.3.x
• Java 17
• Isle of Berk 1.2.0
• GeckoLib 3.0.57
• Variant Loader remains optional.
• The original Isle of Berk mod is still required.
• The Deadlock Fix mod remains a separate companion.

This release contains targeted performance improvements. Results may vary depending on dragon count, render distance, particles, shaders, and hardware.