Grassier Grass

New features

• Grass plants as blades — Separated feature into a toggleable config
• Grass sparsity — thins blades inward from the randomized rims of each clump.
• Blade particles — grass blades occasionally shed into sufficiently strong wind, gliding downwind before settling.
• Blade hue jitter — individual blades get a stable hue offset, 0 disables it.
• Grass through snow — blades keep rendering when a snow layer covers the grass block.
• Shader-pack shadows — lets blades and re-rendered plants cast Iris/Oculus shadows. Off by default.
• Dynamic wind speed limit — scales the whole dynamic-wind range.
• Plant whitelist — force extra block ids to be hidden and re-rendered as grass blades, alongside the existing blacklist.
• Ferns now render as animated swaying plants.
• Config options are grouped into Grass Blades, World & Effects, and Color & Lighting categories.

Visual changes

• Tapered blade texture redrawn and raised from 32×64 to 128×256.
• Blades lean toward their clump centre at rest, and flutter phase varies per clump so neighbouring clumps no longer move in lockstep.
• Plants deform away from the player trail properly, and the deformation no longer jitters as you move.
• Broader blade curvature, smoother low-speed wind noise, and filtered noise sampling.
• Replaced short grass renders at the same height as the surrounding grass field.

Fixes

• minecraft:tall_seagrass is blacklisted from the swaying-plant pass by default, alongside seagrass and sea_pickle.

Changed defaults

Existing configs are untouched; these apply to fresh installs.

Option	1.4.2	1.4.5
Blades per block	48	64
Blade height	0.35	0.30
Height variation	1.00x	1.35x
Blade width	1.20	0.95
Render radius	100	160
Grass style	Segmented	Tapered
Blade gradient base	1.00	0.80
Blade gradient tip	1.10	1.00
Blade gradient curve	1.50	1.90

New options default to: grass sparsity 0.10, blade hue jitter 8°, dynamic wind speed limit 0.80x, grass plants as blades on, blade particles on, grass through snow off, shader-pack shadows off.