Fading Depths

Fading Depths makes deep ocean actually water dark. Lighting fades smoothly based on your depth beneath the local water surface, making underwater exploration more atmospheric and lamps more useful at depth. Fully configurable to suit your world, ocean depths, and lighting preferences.

Works in vanilla and directly integrated to work with Complimentary Unbound and Complimentary Unbound + Eupohoria Patches OR Bliss v2.1.2 Stable!

Features

• Depth-based darkness: sunlight gradually fades as you descend
• Configurable lighting: choose when fading begins, when full darkness is reached, and how much light remains
• Underwater fog controls: adjust darkness and visibility at depth
• Useful artificial lighting: sea lanterns, torches, and other light sources keep working
• Vision assistance: configurable support for Night Vision and Conduit Power
• Client-side effects: works without installing the mod on a server

Configuration

Open Mods → Fading Depths → Config to adjust the settings and depth lighting levels and fade settings

You DEFINITELY want to do this so you can set it up and tailor the experience to your worldgen settings and preferences! Do not skip this step!!!

Complementary Unbound & Bliss Support

Shader support is experimental and requires a patched shader copy.

1. Select your original Complementary Unbound or Bliss Shader ZIP and make sure it is in use.

2. In a world, run /fadingdepths patch.

3. Select the newly generated shader ZIP containing FadingDepths in its name.

The patch adds depth-based lighting, darker underwater fog, and a fade intended to soften the distant underwater render boundary.

Your original shader ZIP stays untouched. Switch back to it at any time to undo the shader changes.

Other shader packs are currently unsupported, some may work better than others but the above patches will not work with any shaders except for Complimentary Unbound, Complimentary Unbound + Eupohoria Patches, or Bliss v2.1.2 Stable!