The True Hadal Veil

🌊 The True Hadal Veil — Update

This update focuses mainly on performance, compatibility, and cleanup, preparing the modpack for the newest Hadal Veil experience.

⚙️ Performance & Rendering

• Migrated the rendering stack to Sodium + Iris.

• Added Lithium for additional game logic and tick optimizations.

• Added/updated performance optimizations around entities, block entities, chunk loading, and general game performance.

• Improved compatibility between the modpack's optimization mods and shaders.

• Removed the previous Embeddium/Oculus rendering setup.

🌌 Hadal Veil

• Updated the pack around the latest Hadal Veil 0.2.0 environment.

• Updated and aligned its required dependencies.

• Improved the environment for testing and playing the Abyss, world generation, creatures, structures, and other Hadal Veil content.

🎨 Shaders

• The modpack now uses Iris as its shader loader.

• Low Hadal Shaders remains included as the shader pack designed for the intended Hadal Veil atmosphere.

• Cleaned old shader configuration left from previous versions.

🧹 Cleanup & Compatibility

• Removed obsolete configuration files from mods that are no longer part of the pack.

• Cleaned the exported modpack structure.

• Removed leftover Embeddium, Oculus, EMI, Distant Horizons and other unused configuration files.

• General dependency and compatibility cleanup.

🔧 Optimization Stack

The pack now includes a stronger optimization foundation featuring mods such as:

• Sodium

• Iris

• Lithium

• C2ME

• ModernFix

• FerriteCore

• ImmediatelyFast

• Entity Culling

• Better Block Entities

• ServerCore

• AllTheLeaks

• FastSuite

• FastWorkbench

• FastFurnace

The goal is to keep The True Hadal Veil visually atmospheric while making exploration, world generation and general gameplay considerably smoother.

No major gameplay progression changes were made in this update.
This release is primarily a technical and performance-focused update.