Iris Player Depth Fix

With Iris shaders enabled, player skins can be drawn translucent, and the sun, moon and Distant Horizons water may appear over the player's body. The mod forces the avatar render type to cutout, which makes the body write depth from its opaque geometry, and outer skin layers switch from soft blending to alpha-tested edges. Held items and capes already use opaque paths, so only the body skin is affected by the change.

The fix works by copying the opaque depth buffer before deferred shading runs, so the shader pipeline sees the player's body. The author describes it as a temporary workaround until Iris handles player opaque depth correctly on its own. Installation requires Iris Shaders, which in turn depends on Sodium and Fabric API, and the mod runs on Fabric and NeoForge for Minecraft 26.2.

The mod is client-side only, so servers do not need it and players can join without installing anything. It is released under the MIT License and is open source, with its source code published for anyone to inspect. Files were first published and last updated on 2026-08-06.