## 🆕 What's New in v1.0.6 — *Procedural Lava & Heat Shimmer*
Version **1.0.6** adds a physically-inspired procedural lava block renderer and a subtle heat-shimmer post-processing effect. It is a focused visual update on top of **v1.0.5**.
### 🔥 Procedural Lava / Magma (Block ID 10009)
* **Block mapping** — `minecraft:lava` and `minecraft:flowing_lava` are now tagged with block ID `10009` in `block.properties`.
* **3D Voronoi cracks** — the surface is generated with a procedural Voronoi crack field (basalt crust on top, glowing magma in the cracks) using a 4-step parallax occlusion raymarch for real depth.
* **Animated convection flow** — slow noise-driven convection makes the magma crawl and pulse.
* **Localized hot spots & bubbles** — rare high-contrast yellow-orange hot spots and short-lived rising bubbles add life without turning the surface into noise.
* **Viscous waves** — only the top face receives a slower, heavier vertex displacement so lava feels thick and molten.
* **PBR-ready** — the basalt crust is rough (0.95) while the magma cracks are extremely glossy (0.02), giving physically plausible highlights.
* **Multi-pass coverage** — lava is handled in `gbuffers_terrain`, `gbuffers_water`, and `gbuffers_terrain_translucent` so it renders correctly on both Iris and Oculus pipelines regardless of which pass the loader assigns fluid blocks to.
### 🌡️ Heat Shimmer Above Lava
* `final.fsh` detects lava pixels through a dedicated `colortex2` alpha signature (0.1) and applies a subtle, slow screen-space distortion that simulates rising hot air.
* The effect is constrained by depth and by the lava mask, so it only affects pixels directly above or next to lava surfaces.
* **New in-game options:** `HEAT_SHIMMER` (on/off) and `HEAT_SHIMMER_STRENGTH` (Subtle / Balanced / Strong), located in the `[Post-Processing & Fog]` menu.
Developer information
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