A developer of Iris showed that Horizon's shader pack code was written from
Iris's source. This removes it: the horizon-shaderpack crate, Java pack
loading and its render stages, Horizon's own WGSL packs and the example
packs, the Shader Packs screen and its option, the launcher's shader pack
browsing and installing, and the docs about them. Shader packs may come
back later as a clean-room rewrite.
The vanilla renderer and its post-processing (resolution scale, FXAA) are
unchanged. Options files that name a pack load and drop the key; the
launcher reads manifests that list a shader pack, and files in
`shaderpacks/` are never deleted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every release is now published as the release (one channel, Ludovic's
decision of 2026-10-23), so the launcher drops its Stable/Alpha choice:
the Updates row in Settings, `horizon-launcher update-channel` and its MCP
tool, the channel on the Versions page, in `versions` and in the footer.
It updates to the newest game release that is not a pre-release (GitHub's
latest) and looks every 30 minutes. The pre-releases of the old Alpha
channel stay listed and installable by hand, never as an update. Old
`update_channel` / `beta_builds` keys in settings.json are ignored.
On Linux a release build that starts no longer rewrites the
applications-menu entry to point at itself. It writes the entry only when
there is none, or when the program it starts (TryExec, else Exec) no longer
exists; turning the Settings switch on or `desktop-entry` still points it
at this launcher, and HORIZON_LAUNCHER_DESKTOP_EXEC is still honored. A
test build started with the real HOME took over a working entry and then
left it broken when its target/ was deleted (2026-10-23).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
website/docs/agents.md, in the nav under "Going further", is the player's page.
It covers what an agent can do, connecting it from the launcher, copy-paste
config for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client, the game's AI Agent
page, a CLI quick reference, safety and No AI.
docs/agent-control.md is rewritten for developers:
- the surfaces, and why one MCP server covers the launcher and the game;
- the inventory, before and after, for the launcher and the game;
- No AI on every surface, and the launcher commands that stay;
- connecting from the launcher and the game;
- the design rules for a new command.
docs/launcher-commands.md lists every launcher command, its arguments and its
MCP tool. It is generated from the clap definition (cli_tools::markdown). The
launcher test the_launcher_reference_is_up_to_date fails when it is stale or a
tool is undocumented, like horizon-ctl's generated reference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ludovic Marie