Nightly 2026-11-01 · c9d474d — release notes

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Nightly 2026-11-01 · c9d474d: main (c9d474d), built from nightly/build-2026-11-01-4 (c9d474dd9116e84c243f8992d75c11314df56f06).

Source: commit c9d474dd9116e84c243f8992d75c11314df56f06, kept for good as the tag nightly-source/2026-11-01-c9d474d; horizon-source.tar.gz is its tree. Native mods built for this Nightly pin that commit.

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New

• feat(mods): computed world field-of-view hook (#5976, fixes #5969)
• Native mods: draw a mob with the mod's own model (native_mob_submit) (#5895, fixes #5861)
• OptiFine entity models: packs' .jem files reshape mobs (#5659)
• Data packs and content mods: remove and replace recipes by filter (#5910, fixes #5583)
• feat(mods): native mods can open custom menus (#5741, fixes #5740)
• feat(mods): detached camera distance hook (#5992, fixes #5978)
• feat(mods): computed world fog color hook (#6000, fixes #5996)
• feat(mods): raw mouse button pre/post hooks (#6010, fixes #6007)
• Native mods: a player respawning (native_player_respawned, part of #5816) (#5820)
• --player-dir: one player's own files when several games share a game folder (#4952, 2/3) (#5513)
• Far terrain on servers (3/3): Horizon clients get their LOD from the server (#4947)
• feat(mods): native mods can raycast across the distant terrain and own an item's use (#5731, fixes #5730)
• feat(mods): final world fog parameters hook (#6003, fixes #6002)
• feat(mods): screen key release pre hook (#6014, fixes #6011)
• OptiFine entity models: custom models animate (#5665)
• Native mods: music a client mod chooses and layers (native_music, native_music_layers) (#5898, fixes #5863)
• Graphics: add configurable leaf culling modes (#5926, fixes #5924)
• OptiFine random entities: mobs wear their pack's texture variants (#5744)
• Native mods: send a server's recipes to its Horizon clients (#5949, fixes #5929)
• feat(mods): complete window keyboard input hook (#6023, fixes #6022)
• feat(mods): two-axis gameplay mouse scrolling hook (#6027, fixes #6025)
• feat(mods): screen mouse drag pre hook (#6019, fixes #6017)
• feat(mods): hear a mod container's viewers change (#6049, fixes #6047)

Fixed

• Shader packs: gl_FogFragCoord travels from the vertex stage to the fragment stage (#5964, fixes #5960)
• Shader packs: isRightHanded, is_on_ground and the dimension's uniforms (#5966, fixes #5965)
• Fix scalar vector constants in compute dispatch metadata (#5968, fixes #5956)
• Keep declared shader defaults selectable (#5974, fixes #5961)
• Expand pack options in custom image dimensions (#5980, fixes #5962)
• Accept one trailing custom-expression terminator (#5986, fixes #5963)
• Swing the hand when a painting is placed (#5958, fixes #5912)
• Thrown potions hit players, and their thrower after leaving them (#5972, fixes #5876)
• Reset boat paddles after dismounting mid-stroke (#5973, fixes #5947)
• Management protocol: read and set live difficulty (#5982)
• Tridents, rockets and fishing hooks press plates and trip tripwires (#5914, fixes #5896)
• Evokers and illusioners show hand particles while casting (#5945, fixes #5886)
• Translucent batching (1/3): translucent terrain in an arena of its own, off by default (#5984)
• terrain: sample distant tiles at an explicit mip so anisotropic filtering stops streaking (#5778, fixes #5179)
• Draw the ender dragon in every dimension, not only the End (#5789, fixes #5745)
• Native mods: screen_render_post skips the screen the server pack prompt hides (#5854)
• Primed TNT keeps its Passengers (#5883)
• Hoglins and other wide mobs suffocate in walls (#5944, fixes #5872)
• Preserve wind charge momentum across queued player movement (#5868, fixes #5828)
• Extras: hide block-break particles (#5888, fixes #5698)
• Boats can't be placed from underwater (#5993, fixes #5967)
• /datapack enable and disable reload the server's data, as /reload does (#6012, fixes #5995)
• Draw opaque terrain through a shader that never discards (#6005)
• Shader API: the material stage reads its own block texture (#5894, fixes #5893)
• Move players with opening shulker box lids (#5997, fixes #5943)
• Shader packs: cloudHeight and isElytraFlying uniforms (part of #3172) (#5693)
• Shader packs: four more translation fixes (sampler names, const parameters, arrays of arrays) (#5701, fixes #5699)
• Shader packs: a pack's vignette=false hides the game's vignette (#5723, fixes #5722)
• Allow spawn eggs to target source fluids (#5942, fixes #5870)
• Chat: a new line slides in and fades in (Smooth chat extra) (#5892)
• Explosions push projectiles (#5941, fixes #5908)
• Frog: a magma cube it eats is drawn in and vanishes, as vanilla (#5913)
• A dropped item rests on a boat, a minecart, a shulker or a held-still happy ghast (#5937)
• Do not play hand animation when block interaction returns Consume (#5… (#6031, fixes #5989)
• Sculk sensors hear tridents, potions and fishing hooks land (#6051, fixes #6050)
• Mobs follow each block's landing rule (#6057, fixes #6056)
• Run Frost Walker location effects for armor stands (#5932, fixes #5838)
• Keep Creative item tooltips visible between slots (#6026, fixes #5959)
• Renderer: finish and submit frames on a submit thread (+32% FPS in CPU-bound views) (#5779, fixes #5777)
• Add the Social Interactions screen (hide players' chat) (#6043)
• Eject passengers from submerged boats (#6029, fixes #5971)
• Dedicated server: a panic in the tick still saves the world (#5952, fixes #5788)
• Anticheat prediction: a sprint the server stopped after a hit is the client's, not a walk (#6037, fixes #5948)
• fix(mobs): match vanilla baby piglin equipment and gold pickups (#5918, fixes #5867)
• Saves: upgrade older chunk, entity and POI records as they are read (#6060, fixes #5230)
• Horizon strings: the shader options and split profiles speak every bundled language (#5771)
• Shader API: set_surface and surface_at, per-pixel data for the post stage (#5900, fixes #5899)
• TNT minecarts explode when they run into other carts (#6064, fixes #6013)
• Lightning hits boats, minecarts and orbs, by box (#6053, fixes #6052)

Known issues

• Shader packs have been removed for now. They will come back later, written again from scratch. Packs in your shaderpacks folder are left where they are.

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