Calm Journeys

Balanced visuals and reduced memory use after crashes with the previous maximum-quality preset.

• Disables Advanced Color Tracing and world-space reflections, reduces shadow quality, and limits shadow rendering to 12 chunks (192 blocks).
• Disables solid-block reflections and rain puddles to remove excessive gloss. Reflective water, detailed clouds, atmospheric fog and Unbound's style remain.
• Reduces leaf/cherry spawn rates from 20 to 15 and leaf lifetime from 15 to 10 seconds: approximately half as many simultaneous falling leaves.
• Keeps bushy Fancy foliage, with MoreCulling depth culling enabled at 3.
• Uses 2 Sodium chunk-building threads, 1 frame of render-ahead, and 150% entity distance to reduce peak memory/rendering load.
• Keeps 10 render chunks and 6 simulation chunks, Faithful 32x and Universal Bushy Leaves enabled, and the options data-version fix from earlier betas.
• Recommends 8 GB Java memory in the CurseForge profile settings.

All 63 mods, pinned mod versions, portal dimensions, structures and tuned settlement density are unchanged. Existing worlds remain usable. Back up worlds before updating; existing profiles may retain their own video settings.

Validation: the pack owner reports successful gameplay testing of these settings on an RTX 3070 laptop with a Ryzen 9 5900HX and 32 GB RAM. Archive integrity, portable configuration and unchanged content are checked separately. A separate co-op test and testing on other hardware are still pending.