PlunderEngine

Shaderpacks can read world data such as wind gusts, terrain flow, the in-game clock, canopy size, ground height sparsity, block light color and solid block volume, and PlunderEngine supplies those values. Link mods plug into PlunderEngine as a single shared contact point, so a shader author does not have to write separate integrations for each one. Whichever Links are installed decide which channel carries the data, and channels for Links that are absent are reported as absent.

PlunderEngine is required by WindLink, which is the first mod within the family, and it is needed on Fabric and NeoForge. Its settings appear under Iris, where a consolidated settings screen lists the Link mod options. A live status readout reports the current state of each Link mod surfacing shader data, and a debug tool helps shader developers find out when a mod's shader is broken. The mod works with broad mod compatibility, and the author notes that more Links are under development.

The library runs on the client only and is built for Fabric with Fabric API. Files are published for 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2 and 26.2. The mod is released under All rights reserved and is not open source.