VerdantLight
# VerdantLight
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**VerdantLight** is a lightweight, high-quality shader pack for Minecraft 1.21.4, designed to deliver natural and realistic lighting while maintaining smooth performance. Featuring path-traced lighting, dynamic shadows, day-night cycles, realistic sun and moon halos, and smart plant shadow detection to prevent small plants from casting unnatural shadows.
**Outstanding Performance:**
* On Intel Iris Plus 640, with render distance 6 and simulation distance 8, standing still gives around **75 FPS**.
* Walking across open plains maintains around **45 FPS**, providing a smooth experience without sacrificing visual quality.
**Key Features:**
* **Lightweight Optimization**: Designed for low-end hardware and high performance.
* **Dynamic Shadows**: Path-traced lighting ensures smooth, stable shadows without jittering.
* **Natural Sky**: Day-night cycle with realistic sunset/sunrise transitions, glowing sun square, and subtle moon halos.
* **Smart Plant Shadows**: Small plants cast no unnatural shadows, trees cast realistic shadows.
* **Enhanced Lighting**: Compatible with Minecraft’s native lightmaps, adds ambient occlusion for richer scene depth.
* **Rain Effects**: Sky color dynamically adjusts in rain, enhancing immersion.
**Perfect For:**
* Players seeking a lightweight, high-performance shader experience
* Builders who enjoy natural, soft lighting effects
* Low-end hardware users who want smooth FPS without compromising visuals
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# VerdantLight
**中文介绍：**
**VerdantLight** 是专为 Minecraft 1.21.4 打造的轻量级高质量光影包，旨在在保持流畅性能的同时呈现自然、真实的光影效果。它采用路径追踪光照算法，支持动态阴影、昼夜循环、真实的太阳与月亮光晕效果，并通过智能植物阴影识别技术，让小型植物不会投射不自然的阴影，从而保证视觉的自然与细腻。
**性能表现极佳**：
* 在 Intel Iris Plus 640 上，渲染距离 6、模拟距离 8 时，玩家站立即可达到约 **75 FPS**。
* 在草原环境行走时，也能保持约 **45 FPS**，兼顾了流畅体验与光影品质。
**核心特点：**
* **轻量优化**：专为低配硬件和轻量化体验设计，减少不必要的计算负载。
* **动态阴影**：路径追踪光照算法实现实时阴影，无跳动问题。
* **自然天空**：昼夜循环、日落/日出色彩过渡，太阳正方形发光和月亮光晕自然呈现。
* **智能植物阴影**：小型植物不会投射不合理的阴影，树叶投射真实阴影。
* **光照贴图增强**：兼容 Minecraft 原生光照贴图，同时加入环境光遮蔽，使场景层次更丰富。
* **雨天效果**：雨天时天空颜色自动调整，增加沉浸感。
**适用人群**：
* 想要轻量、高性能光影体验的玩家
* 喜欢自然柔和光影效果的建造者
* 在低配硬件上追求流畅帧率的玩家
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Vanilla Food Hunger Bar HUD Hotbar
Reverts the HUD Food/Hunger Icons to the default, vanilla ones when put above other Resourcepacks. Useful for overriding the textures when using other resource packs that might make them look worse.
Now with [Appleskin](https://modrinth.com/mod/appleskin/versions) and [Farmer’s Delight](https://modrinth.com/mod/farmers-delight) COMPATS!
I mainly made this to revert these food/hunger textures from [Unique Dark](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/unique-dark):
Click here or on the image above for the Health/Hearts version
**You might also want to use:**
|[](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/old-water)|[](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/old-bedrock)|[](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/new-bedrock)|[](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/mute-pistons)|[](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/quieter-pistons)|[](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/mute-dispensers-and-droppers)|[](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/quieter-dispensers-and-droppers)
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|[Old Water](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/old-water)|[Old Bedrock](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/old-bedrock)|[New Bedrock](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/new-bedrock)|[Mute Pistons](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/mute-pistons)|[Quieter Pistons](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/quieter-pistons)|[Mute Dispensers and Droppers](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/mute-dispensers-and-droppers)|[Quieter Dispensers and Droppers](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/quieter-dispensers-and-droppers)
