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.
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Captured on the Mac mini with the game's offscreen capture (1280x720),
replacing the Horizon menu style's Video page.
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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.
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horizon-theme gains the Blocks palettes (light and dark, WCAG AA on every panel and on the stone),
Pixelify Sans (OFL) and Pixelarticons (MIT); tokens.css now carries the Blocks colours, the pixel
font and the block edges. The site sets headings, navigation and buttons in Pixelify Sans, turns
the index lists into stacks of panels with an outline, a bevel and a lip, puts a stone texture
behind the page and Horizon's pixel landscape (a dawn or a sunset) behind the hero, both drawn in
code by scripts/art.mjs. Light and dark still follow the system, with the toggle.
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/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.
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Six scenes from one fixed-seed world (seed 8675309): a plains village among
savanna hills, sunset over it and the river, moonrise over its lit square, a
crimson forest with a zombified piglin, tropical fish over a warm-ocean coral
reef, and survival at dusk with a zombie and the full HUD. Plus Horizon's own
title, Singleplayer, Video options and pause screens.
Captured with horizon-ctl screenshot from the offscreen client (fullscreen
2560x1286 on the Mac mini, default graphics settings, GUI scale Auto), scenes
cropped to 16:9 and menus to 16:10 (left-aligned) and scaled to the old sizes
(1600x900, 1280x800). The scene sources are JPEGs in docs/media again, the
names scripts/assets.mjs already reads; the README's WebP copies are the
rebuilt website media. Alt texts and LEGAL.md follow the new pictures.
The launcher screenshots are unchanged: the Mac mini's session is locked, so
no window capture works.
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The README banner is redrawn in the new design (docs/media/banner.html), and the launcher and
menu screenshots (README and website) are the restyled ones. The website's launcher section
gains a Launcher tab: its screenshots no longer show the old background, whose licence was
never confirmed.
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The page now reads the design tokens generated from crates/horizon-theme (src/tokens.css, put
before style.css by build.mjs), and follows the system's light or dark appearance, with a
toggle that remembers the choice. The full-screen sunset hero is replaced by type: a headline,
one paragraph, the download, and an index list of what the page holds. Every section is a mono
label, a display heading and its content as numbered rows with one-pixel rules: the facts, the
fourteen subsystems, the launcher's features, the community links. Rows fade a soft plate in
under the pointer; content arrives with a short fade, rise and unblur. The footer ends on the
giant faint wordmark. The 404 page and the social preview (og.html) follow.
Instrument Serif, the hero images, the parallax, the statement fill and the magnetic buttons
are gone; the icons come from Horizon's new mark (xtask icons). Touch targets are 44 px high.
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The README keeps the parity table, and its known differences move to a
Known issues section. The website drops the What's next section and its
nav links, and no longer fetches or requires a Roadmap section. The
launcher drops its What's next page, `next` subcommand and `roadmap`
MCP tool.
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Lists the GitHub contributors of ludovic111/horizon (bots left out, the
owner first) with avatar, login, commit count and a link to the profile.
Built in by build.mjs like the releases (the build still succeeds when
GitHub does not answer, and the block stays hidden until the page loads
it) and refreshed by the page from the API. Adds a nav and menu entry,
lets avatars.githubusercontent.com through img-src, and updates the
README, LEGAL.md and the privacy note.
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The launcher's palette, violet accent, Instrument Serif and Geist, without its sidebar
and settings rows: a full-viewport hero over Horizon's own sunset (slow drift,
parallax, grain), then sections for what it is (a statement that lights up as it
scrolls), a screenshot mosaic, the parity count and a grid of the 14 subsystems, the
launcher beside Horizon's own menus, the latest patch notes, the roadmap, community
and the footer. Reveals, staggered letters and magnetic buttons stop under
prefers-reduced-motion; a translucent top bar and a full-screen phone menu replace
the sidebar.
playhorizon.dev: canonical, og:url, absolute og/twitter images, sitemap.xml and its
robots.txt line, and a 301 from *.up.railway.app (Railway's healthcheck host is still
served).
The full-page screenshots are no longer committed (about 17 MB): `npm run shots`
writes them to the gitignored shots/. The unused blurred background is gone; LEGAL.md
lists the hero and the settings screenshot.
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website/ holds Horizon's site: the horizon-theme tokens and bundled fonts, the
launcher's sidebar, rows, buttons and segmented control, over Horizon's own frozen
landscape. The parity table, harness count and roadmap are generated from the README
at build time; releases, patch notes, the roadmap and links.json are refreshed in the
browser from GitHub, with the build's copy as fallback. The download button picks the
newest launcher-v* asset for the visitor's OS.
Legal: the Minecraft disclaimer in the hero, footer and 404; no Minecraft logo or
wordmark; no game files; the launcher's background (licence unconfirmed) and the
screenshots showing it are left out; LEGAL.md lists every asset and its licence. No
cookies, analytics or third-party assets.
Railway: root directory website, Dockerfile (Node build, Caddy on $PORT with a strict
CSP). Checked with Playwright at 360-1920 px and 1250x700 (docs/widths/); Lighthouse
96/100/96/92 on mobile, 100/100/96/92 on desktop.
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Ludovic Marie