1.4.0

[1.4.0] - 2026-07-12

✨ New Features

• 🎬 Cinematic Benchmark Camera: Added /cullify benchmark start <seconds>. The mod will now lock your movement and rotate the camera 360° automatically, ensuring perfectly accurate performance comparison tests.
• 📊 Gorgeous Results Screen: After finishing a benchmark, you are greeted with a beautiful glassmorphic screen showing your FPS gains, 1% Lows (stability), and how many plants were culled.

⚡ Performance & Stability (Fewer Stutters!)

• 🚶 Smooth Walking: Increased the threshold for updating culled chunks. The game no longer aggressively rebuilds chunks with every step, completely removing stutters at higher render distances (like 12+ chunks).
• 🧠 Rebuilt Culling System: Replaced the old heavy memory grid with a smart bounding-box math system. This saves a huge amount of RAM and makes plant scanning hundreds of times faster.
• 🧹 Micro-Stutter Fix: Stopped allocating temporary blocks in memory during culling calculations. This prevents Java memory dumps, leading to much smoother frame rates.
• 🚀 Faster Double-Tall Plants: Caching properties of tall grass and large flowers is now instant, reducing CPU overhead in heavy biomes.
• 💻 Less CPU Usage: Background world checks now trigger less frequently, leaving more CPU power for actual rendering.

1.3.1

[1.3.1+mc1.21.1] - 2026-07-03

➕ Added / New Features

• 🎛️ Draggable Sliders: Replaced the old distance click-cards with smooth, draggable sliders in the config menu.
• 💚 Sodium Slider Integration: Added the "LOD Density" slider option natively inside the Sodium settings page.
• 🎨 Custom Glassmorphic UI: Redesigned the config menu screen with a premium dark theme, animated culling shape previews, glowing green neon borders, and rich tooltips.
• 🌐 Better Translations: Added full localization support for 13 languages.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed Startup Crash: Fixed a game crash on startup if Vanillin mod was not installed.
• ⚡ Concurrency Protection: Fixed rare background crashes when loading/unloading chunks.
• 🔍 Voxel Grid Flickering Fix: Fixed block rendering flickering issues when moving fast by using atomic swaps.
• 📐 LOD Block Outline Fix: Fixed block outline wireframes showing up on invisible plant spaces where blocks were culled.
• 🧹 Cache Section Fix: Fixed cached section states being deleted too early under background thread latency.
• 🔄 Math.abs Random Bug: Fixed a math overflow bug in the LOD generator causing uneven plant density distribution.

⚡ Performance Optimizations

• 📦 Memory Double-Buffering: Reuses voxel grid memory arrays instead of allocating 2MB buffers repeatedly, saving RAM and avoiding GC micro-stutters.
• ⚙️ Fast-Path Plant Check: Replaced slow registries checks with quick direct Java class checks for 99% of plant lookups.
• 🎮 UI Optimization: Cached visual glow animation math so it runs once per frame instead of calculating per option card.
• ⛓️ Debounced Reload: Consecutive config changes now trigger exactly one world redraw instead of reloading the world multiple times.

1.2.0

[1.2.0+mc1.21.1] - 2026-06-28

🎨 Visual & Assets Updates

• 🏷️ New Mod Logo: Updated the mod logo (Cullify.png) to a new high-resolution 2048x2048 design. Replaced the mod list icon, Custom HUD overlay icon, and menu screens.
• 🖼️ Sodium Sidebar Icon: Configured the Cullify option tab inside the Sodium menu to display the custom mod icon natively next to the tab name (setNonTintedIcon).

📈 Benchmark & Performance Profiling

• ⏱️ Two-Phase Comparison Benchmark: The /cullify benchmark start <seconds> command now triggers an automated, two-phase comparative benchmark:
  • Phase 1: Temporarily disables Cullify and measures rendering performance (warmup + recording).
  • Phase 2: Re-enables Cullify and records performance under the same conditions.
• 📊 Detailed FPS Metrics: Tracks precise frame times to calculate Average FPS, Minimum/Maximum FPS, and critical gaming benchmarks (1% low and 0.1% low frame rates).
• 📄 Interactive Summary & File Links: Generates a side-by-side comparison report text file, displays a colorized chat summary with performance gain percentages, and prints a clickable file link in chat to open the report instantly.

🧪 Sodium & Compatibility Improvements

• ⚡ Native Sodium Options: Fully resolved the startup crash related to duplicate mod ID entries (IllegalArgumentException in ConfigManager.registerConfigs) under Sodium 0.8.x. Removed redundant annotations and unified option registering through standard neoforge.mods.toml mod properties.
• 📦 Element Name Translation: Integrated element translation support (setElementNameProvider) for the Culling Shape enum, and provided translations for all geometric shapes in English and Brazilian Portuguese.
• ⚙️ Default Values & Storage Handlers: Fully populated option builders with proper default values and background storage handlers (ClientEventHandler::scheduleDebouncedSave) to prevent NullPointerException during Sodium configurations setup.

🌐 Localization & Translations

• 🇧🇷 Translation Coverage: Added missing translation keys (cullify.options.page and shapes names) for both English (en_us.json) and Portuguese (pt_br.json).