Pure Metal [Mac]

Pure Metal 0.2.1

• Fixed a crash issue.

Pure Metal 0.2.0

New: Terrain LOD

• Far-away terrain is now drawn in a simpler way, so you get more FPS while still seeing just as far.
• On by default when using Metal at Render Distance 16 or higher. Render Distance 12 and below is unchanged.
• The closest ~80% of your render distance keeps full detail. You can change this from 50% to 95% with the new Full Detail Range slider.
• Only fully solid blocks are merged, so nearby terrain looks the same as before.
• Find the new Terrain LOD settings in Video Settings and in Sodium's options menu.

Improvements

• Textures on simplified far terrain now repeat properly instead of looking stretched.
• Smoother play: loading and rebuilding chunks now uses about half as much temporary memory, so you get fewer and shorter stutters. In our testing, average FPS went up and stutters dropped.

Unchanged

• Vsync, frame cap and frame pacing work as before.
• Still requires an Apple Silicon Mac with Graphics API set to Metal.