Thunderhead 1.1.0

Fixes for everything people reported, and an API other mods can build on.

Fixed

• Effects no longer draw through terrain. Lightning, particles and glow could appear in front of the world instead of behind it. None of the mod's render passes were asking for a depth test at all — they inherited whatever the previous pass happened to leave switched on.
• Thunder no longer cuts off. Ten of the thirteen clips ended while the sound was still going, the worst of them at a sixth of full volume, which is a click rather than an ending. Every clip now fades out properly.
• No more black squares. A strike that landed over a gap, off a cliff or onto a glass roof threw up plain black debris, because those surfaces report no colour at all. Most visible with a lot of strikes at once.
• Ball lightning is the same sphere for everybody. Its shape, sparks and pulse were rolled separately on each client, so two players standing together watched two different spheres.
• Ball lightning no longer restarts when you walk up to it. Arriving halfway through its life showed it newly born, at full brightness, with its fade arriving seconds late.
• Ball lightning glides between position updates instead of stepping.
• The ball lightning burst is audible again. It used a vanilla sound the mod itself suppresses, so anyone running Thunderhead watched it burst in silence while vanilla clients heard it.
• No more double damage above a strike. Standing four to nine blocks above one took both vanilla's damage and the mod's; the near-miss ring now excludes vanilla's real damage box.
• Cosmetic lightning is harmless again. The bolt from a skeleton horse trap — and anything a datapack spawns for show — no longer deals near-miss damage. It still flashes.
• Two players can no longer disagree about which entity a bolt hit.
• The gameplay config is re-read when a server starts on NeoForge, matching Fabric.

New: an API for other mods

Thunderhead now has a small client-side API. A mod can:

• raise its own lightning anywhere, and decide where it starts — which fixes the bolt's angle and its length, so a channel can lean hard, run flat between two towers or rise from the ground
• style it: thickness, branching, reach, and arbitrary RGB colour for the core and the glow
• choose its thunder — which clip, how loud, how long after the flash, or silent entirely
• restrict which debris it throws up
• start a rolling thunder event on its own, with no lightning in front of it
• spawn ball lightning from server-side code
• listen for every strike Thunderhead draws, including vanilla ones

It degrades to a no-op when Thunderhead is absent, so an optional integration cannot crash its host.

Accessibility is deliberately out of reach: nothing in the API can raise brightness, change the flicker or touch the reduced-flashing mode.

📖 API reference, Gradle coordinates and examples

Notes

Nothing in your config changes and no world data is touched. Drop the new jar in and go.