Changelog

Added

• New settings window built with Arkea: pages, presets, search, previews and a GPU impact meter
• Initial mod setup for Minecraft 26.3 on NeoForge
• Vulkan render core that draws the whole world through Helion's own stages with a picture identical to vanilla
• Own color and depth buffers for the world image
• Automatic fallback to vanilla rendering on OpenGL, with Sodium or Iris, or after a rendering error
• Toggle key (H) to switch between Helion and vanilla rendering
• Debug mode that shows every Helion value on screen, logs it as JSON and runs the parity check with the J key
• Parity check image that marks every differing pixel, plus a warning when the game was not frozen during the check
• Parity check that compares two frames from the same tick, so flickering torch light no longer counts as a difference
• Settings screen with render core and debug mode options
• Ambient occlusion with quality presets, strength, radius and a shadow-only view
• Visibility bitmask ambient occlusion as an alternative method that keeps thin objects from casting dark halos
• Experimental geometry buffer: terrain drawn by Helion shaders that also record normals, block light, sky light and base color
• Experimental HDR lighting for terrain with separate block and sky light and intensity settings
• Experimental temporal anti-aliasing that smooths block edges and distant textures
• Experimental physical sky with spectral sky colors and fog that matches the sky in every direction
• Experimental sun and moon shadows from blocks with quality presets
• Bloom around bright light sources that adapts to daylight, caves and night, with intensity, threshold and a glow-only view
• Neutral and Filmic tone mapping, exposure control and dithering against color banding
• Optional contrast adaptive sharpening with a strength setting
• English and Turkish translations

Changed

• Adopt the Aryston Source-Available License
• Draw the moon dimmer than the sun so it no longer glows like a second sun

Added

• Initial mod setup for Minecraft 26.3 on NeoForge
• Add an animated title screen with a jump back in card for the last played world
• Add an animated options window with a sidebar, quick settings and a tile for every page
• Add video, sound, chat, accessibility, skin and controls pages with switches, sliders and cycle selectors
• Add Reset to Defaults with a confirmation on every options page
• Add key binds, language and resource packs pages with search
• Add key bind filters, find by key and false conflict filtering for debug and spectator keys
• Add dropdown menus for the fullscreen resolution and the sound device
• Add custom menu backgrounds: import a video, GIF or picture to replace the rotating panorama
• Add an Arkea page to the options with the background gallery, accent colors and screen switches
• Add a singleplayer screen with world details, search, sorting, backups and safer deleting
• Add a create world screen with Game, World and More tabs
• Add a multiplayer screen with server cards, ping bars, LAN games and server dialogs
• Add connecting and loading screens with steps, progress and tips
• Add a mods screen with details, settings and links for every mod
• Add notifications for backups, deleting, renaming and copying
• Add a Ctrl+K command palette for settings, pages, worlds, servers and actions
• Show advancement, recipe, tutorial and system notifications in the Arkea style
• Add a Reconnect button after losing a server connection
• Show the player list when hovering a server
• Add radio buttons, steppers, chips, range sliders, ticked sliders, a color picker, pagination and preset tiles
• Add context menus, side sheets, before and after previews, what's new and progress dialogs
• Add collapsible sections, item slots, meters, cost pips, step dots and dividers
• Add a config screen library other mods can use to build Arkea settings windows
• Show the settings of every mod in the Arkea style
• Add a Component Gallery for mod developers
• Add a reset button and badges to setting rows
• Add Arkea pause, death and statistics screens
• Draw every other screen and other mods' screens with Arkea buttons, sliders, fields, lists and backgrounds
• Show confirmations, link warnings, alerts and backup prompts as Arkea dialogs
• Show the F3 debug information as Arkea cards and draw the chat bar in the Arkea style
• Add Arkea HUD styles (Compact, Classic+ and Minimal) with a settings page and live previews
• Show the Tab player list as an Arkea card with heads, scores and ping bars
• Animate the Arkea HUD: sliding selection, rolling stack counts, easing bars with a damage trace and a level up pop
• Add a target card, pickup feed, inventory total, ammo counter, low durability warnings and armor durability
• Add a food preview in the hunger bar, damage direction arcs, a death point, a location chip and a sleep reminder
• Add crosshair shapes, a hit marker and a sound radar
• Show tooltips as Arkea cards with food values, durability and container previews
• Draw chat messages on Arkea plates, a little smaller, narrower and above the HUD
• Show the sender's head and a colored name in front of every chat message, and slide new messages in
• Draw command help and command suggestions as Arkea panels

Changed

• Adopt the Aryston Source-Available License
• Write the F3 cards in the Inter font so they are easier to read
• Make the Arkea hotbar a quarter smaller
• Move the inventory total above the experience bar so they no longer overlap
• Attach the chat input to the bottom of the chat, as wide as the chat
• Scroll the chat smoothly
• Show saturation in food tooltips as gold outlined food icons, like AppleSkin
• Move the slim boss bars a little lower so their names no longer touch the top of the screen
• Move the target card back to the top center, below any boss bars
• Show on the target card whether the item in hand is the right tool
• Give command suggestions more room next to the accent line

Fixed

• Keep the target card in the top left so boss bars no longer push it down
• Keep key bindings with Ctrl, Shift or Alt after a restart
• Import videos dropped into the backgrounds folder while the game is running, once they finish copying
• Import videos about ten times faster, using every processor core
• Show the Arkea and Helion logos in the options sidebar
• Keep a cancelled background import from starting again by itself
• Stop the game from crashing when the HUD settings or the gallery are opened before any world was loaded
• Size the Arkea HUD for the window so it fits a 1920 x 1080 screen at any GUI scale
• Make the F3 cards smaller and hide the location chip and target card behind them
• Show the HUD larger in the settings previews and keep the Vanilla preview from being squashed
• Keep crisp chat text and the chat above the taller Classic+ HUD