Hey everyone!

This month's update is live, and it's a big one: custom spider and cave spider models, plus a major rework pass focused on making vanilla builds blend more naturally.

This month, I built fully custom geometry for the spider and cave spider, the first time we've gone custom on.

THE BIG REWORKS

The theme this month was seamlessness. A few areas where vanilla textures created visible repetition or jarring colour breaks have been rebuilt:

• Sand — significantly less prone to visible tiling. This was the

  one I'm most excited about; it's been on my list for months.

• Cobblestone & mossy cobblestone — smoother colour blend across

  large surfaces

• Planks (oak, acacia, spruce, dark oak, pale oak) — recoloured and reworked

  to give villages a richer, more lived-in feel

• Logs (acacia, spruce, jungle), bricks, stone bricks, andesite,

• chiselled stone bricks — all reworked for better blending

• Dirt path, vines, ice — reworked

✨ TARGETED UPDATES

- Gold block — now displays correctly on shaders with weaker PBR

support (no more flat gold blob)

- Chest, jungle leaves, resin, creaking heart, chicken texture —

refinements

- Custom chicken model added

FULL CHANGELOG:

• Spider, cave spider, custom chicken model, chicken texture,

• bricks, dirt path, acacia logs, sand, cobblestone, mossy

• cobblestone, jungle logs, resin, creaking heart, vines, chest,

• gold block, jungle leaves, stone bricks, andesite, chiselled

• stone bricks, spruce log, oak planks, acacia planks, spruce

• planks, dark oak planks, pale oak planks, ice.

DOWNLOAD

Grab the latest build from https://optimumrealism.com/account

💬 SHARE YOUR BUILDS

Drop screenshots in #showcase on Discord — seeing what people

build with these reworks is genuinely my favourite part of doing

this. I'll be reposting standout shots to Instagram.

For deeper notes on this update, see this post:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/155529147

Need help installing? https://www.optimumrealism.com/installation

Iris/Sodium setup: https://www.optimumrealism.com/installation#h.n0bayvg0amfi

Shader settings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/optimum-realism-76296605

Common problems: https://www.patreon.com/collection/769408

Discord: https://discord.gg/wUW3UjXdzn

Instagram (BTS + block previews): https://www.instagram.com/optimum_realism/