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>
Drop the Horizon menu style (options_horizon.rs, front.rs, the live title
backdrop and its post grade, the launcher's menu-style setting, CLI and MCP
tool). Every screen is vanilla's. Horizon's own settings hang off vanilla's
Options the way mods add theirs: Horizon Settings... and Mods... take the
Telemetry/Credits slots, and Horizon Settings opens Graphics, Advanced
Graphics, Shader Packs, Controller Settings, Extras and Mods, each a vanilla
options list with tooltips. Play with friends moves behind vanilla's Friends
buttons: the pause menu's opens Play with Friends (share, copy, stop), the
title screen's opens Join a Friend, and Direct Connection takes a full code.
Old files load as before: horizon.txt's menuStyle line and
horizon-graphics.txt's level line are ignored.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ludovic dropped CurseForge for now (its API needs a paid key). The Mods page shows
"CurseForge (coming soon)" beside the Modrinth switch, disabled and inert;
browser::sources() is Modrinth only, so no search or install goes to CurseForge,
and `--source curseforge` says it is coming soon. Text that asked for a key or
an environment variable now says CurseForge support is coming soon. Importing a
CurseForge zip or instance still works; jars only CurseForge serves are listed
as "CurseForge downloads coming soon".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Mods page gets a Mods tab: Fabric, NeoForge, Forge and Quilt mods for 26.3
(1.21 and later with Show everything). Each result's jar is downloaded (allowed
CDNs, checksum), checked with horizon-port-pack (Works, Partly, Doesn't run, with
what ports and what doesn't) and the answer cached per file. Install copies the
carry into horizon-mods/<id>/ and turns it on in horizon-mods.txt, with required
mods that port; libraries with nothing to port are listed as not ported; id or
namespace clashes are refused. Remove deletes it and turns it off.
The Modpacks page becomes the Mods page's Modpacks tab: imported packs first,
then the search. CLI: mods search --kind mod, mods check <project>.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Mods page (launcher 0.17) replaces "a mod browser is planned"; the Horizon
shader format is no longer called planned; Nightly-only things say Nightly.
The "I'm playing" ping has no server (DEFAULT_ENDPOINT is None), so the FAQ and
the privacy page say it is off instead of sent. The channel switch says it
needs the launcher release after 0.17. The README says what deploys the site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/docs has a left navigation and eleven pages written for players first, then
hosters, then contributors: what Horizon is, install, settings, multiplayer,
logs and bug reports, hosting (the launcher's Servers page and the command
line), modpacks, mods and data packs, performance, contributing and the FAQ.
/server redirects to /docs/hosting. The build checks every link between the
pages and every image.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ludovic Marie