Plague

Light and Shadow

• Ray traced sun and moon shadows, separate from the regular shadow map
• Lamps and glowing blocks cast local light with real shadows from bodies, doors and thin blocks
• Light bounces once off the world, carrying colour and glow into nearby shade
• Local light comes from a lamp's whole face, sized and softened by its real shape
• Lava stays out of the local light field, and torch parts that never meant to glow no longer do

Focus Blur (new)

• A camera lens for the game: focal length and f-stop set the blur, focus follows where you look
• Bright lights grow into round discs, and glow blurs with the scene instead of sitting on top
• Close things blur over what is behind them; far blur never leaks through a nearer edge
• A by-distance mode: everything past a set number of chunks goes gently soft; ships on, tuned light
• Photo quality doubles the samples; Highlight Boost keeps small lights shining inside the blur
• True Camera Stills, experimental and off by default: stand still and the picture settles into a real photo, one lens point per frame

Fog and Clouds

• Opaque fog rewritten: mist has real shape, moves with the wind, and sits low to the ground
• Sunset light warms the clouds and their bases; each cloud deck has one set of sliders
• New Ultra cloud resolution, now the default

Water

• Water reflects the real clouds instead of a separate fake layer

World and Settings

• Every biome has a name and a number the shaders can read
• Plain setting labels and an Unreal-style quality ladder
• The shipped defaults are the author's own played settings, from the f/1.0 lens to the lighter shadow distance; ray traced extras start off