INITIAL RELEASE

NOTE: Should be compatible with Iris 1.6+ and Distant Horizons 2.45b+ unless specific changes break compatibility in the future. Should be compatible with Minecraft 1.21.X, though primarily built for and tested on 1.21.1. The more at-risk compatibility concern would be with the companion mod Nova Reimagined Snow, but that's also relatively well guarded.

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Surface Snow System

Nova Reimagined's centrepiece feature. Snow is painted directly onto terrain, paths, foliage, wood, and structural blocks in snowy biomes using a noise-driven pixel-locked pattern. Coverage fades naturally under tree canopies and near light sources, creating organic melt patterns rather than hard biome boundary lines. Up to four snow texture variants are resolved automatically from your active resource pack stack, so the snow appearance adapts to whatever resource pack you have installed. Requires the Nova Reimagined Snow companion mod.

Cell Shaded Lighting

An optional cel-shaded lighting model that quantises block light into discrete bands, giving illuminated areas a stylised, hand-drawn quality. Band count, contrast, and ambient contribution are all tunable, making it possible to dial in anything from a subtle painterly warmth to a more pronounced cartoon look. Works alongside coloured lighting for fully coloured cel-shaded block light.

Extended Dark Outline System

A configurable dark outline pass that traces the edges of geometry, reinforcing Minecraft's natural block silhouettes. Outline weight, fade distance, and fade range are all adjustable, letting you control how aggressively outlines appear at distance. Can be combined with the cel-shaded lighting for a cohesive illustrative style.

Per-Time-of-Day Weather Visuals

Rain and storm conditions have fully independent visual profiles for day, dusk, and night. Ambient levels, light intensity, atmospheric fog, border fog brightness, cloud brightness, light warmth, and glare desaturation are all separately tunable across all six weather and time-of-day combinations. This allows storms to feel dramatically different depending on when they hit rather than applying a single flat weather filter over everything.

Underwater Visuals

Underwater environments have dedicated colour and brightness controls for day, dusk, and night, along with independent settings for water fog, border fog, and light shafts. Water colour, foam intensity, texture detail, and refraction are all configurable, giving full control over how water looks from both above and below the surface.

SMAA Anti-Aliasing

Subpixel Morphological Anti-Aliasing is available alongside TAA, providing sharp edge smoothing with less ghosting on moving geometry than temporal methods alone. SMAA and TAA can be used in combination or independently depending on your preference for sharpness versus stability.

Alternative Tone Mappers

In addition to the native Complementary tonemapper, Nova Reimagined includes a selection of alternative tonemapping operators. Each operator changes how colour and brightness are mapped to the display, giving meaningfully different looks ranging from filmic contrast curves to flatter, more neutral presentations. The native tonemapper's brightness, contrast, saturation, and vibrance controls remain available regardless of which operator is selected.