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# Solstice Changelog ## v1.2 ### Wet weather * Rain puddles form on exposed ground while it rains and dry up gradually afterwards * Puddles form as larger connected pools rather than scattered specks, and grow with rain intensity * Animated rain ripples on the puddle surface * Puddles reflect the sky, show a sun glint at grazing angles, and mirror nearby terrain and builds through screen-space reflections when SSR is on * Wet ground darkens during rain * Puddle Coverage slider; Low profile turns puddles off ### Portals * Nether portals glow and cast purple light onto surrounding blocks * Toggle under Nether & End options; off in the Low profile ### Snow * Snow sparkles: crystal glints that catch the light and shift with your view angle, on snow layers, snow blocks, powder snow and snowy grass * Snow gets a subtle cool brightening and no longer darkens or forms puddles when it rains elsewhere in the world * Sparkle Strength slider under Visuals ### Fire * Fire and campfire flames flicker: emission pulses with layered waves plus noise, so the bloom breathes like a real fire * Flame color grading: white-hot core fading to deep orange at the edges; soul fire grades to cold blue-white * Fire blocks sway gently at the tips; campfire logs stay put, only the flame pixels are affected * Lit campfires only - unlit ones no longer glow * Living Flames toggle under Visuals ### Glowing blocks * Light sources (glowstone, sea lanterns, shroomlight, froglights, lanterns, torches, campfires, magma, crying obsidian and more) glow properly and feed the bloom pass * Ores, amethyst, sculk and enchanting tables get a subtler glint that shows in dark caves * Glow Strength slider; enabled on every profile since it costs almost nothing ### Night sky * Procedural milky way band on clear nights, scaled by Star Brightness * Shooting stars streak across the sky every few seconds * Green-blue aurora on clear nights in snowy and cold biomes, rolled per in-game day (uses Iris biome temperature data) * All three have their own toggles under Sky & Clouds ### SSAO * Depth-based ambient occlusion: soft contact shading in corners and under blocks * 10 taps with dithered rotation, smooth occlusion falloff instead of hard cutoffs, and a distance fade so far terrain stays clean * Strength slider; enabled on High and Ultra profiles ### Other * Light shafts now fade out as the sun or moon leaves the screen edge instead of smearing across the corner of the view * Screen-space reflections use a dithered ray start and finer hit refinement, which hides step banding on water and puddles