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I must say I strongly dislike this new feature. It works exactly backwards.

In case you didn't notice, when you go into any covered location (forest, building or cave) as you move further from sunlight, the horizon now darkens (as if you were moving into a dark room). moving though a forest causes the horizon to actually strobe, light dark light dark etc. Its very annoying. It also ruins the look of the sunset.

I selected my house location because of the sunset, but it looks terrible when inside my house now.

When I say its backwards I mean, the horizon should get brighter. In real life, When you move into a dark area, the pupils dilate to let in more light. When inside a dark room the outside looks brighter. not darker.

Also when outside and looking into a dark area, its difficult to see until your eyes adjust to the dark.

If this effect is what they are trying to simulate, it's not working.

What do you think? Do you like it or not?

EDIT: 10/29/2013 I found where someone said that Dinnerbone said its a bug. Unfortunately that turned out to be wrong and its a "feature".

If used correctly however, I really think this can add a lot of feel to the game. Like for incoming stormy weather and the like. But so far I actually like it. I agree it doesn't happen at the right time, but it looks so good

It seems I was mistaken and someone "SAID" dinerbug said it was a bug. Apparently, it's a "feature". Maybe it's nit pickling but it just looks wrong.

Is everyone else ok with it?

Suggestion:

Instead of screwing up the horizons, couldn't they just vary the brightness temporarily until your virtual eyes adjust. If it were based on the light level of the block you were standing on instead of exposure to the sky, then moving into a bright room like my house would have no affect, while moving into a covered forest or cave would temporarily look very dark until then gradually return to normal after a few seconds.

Food for though perhaps, but I hope the grey horizons go away.

First time this happened I thought a storm was coming. Its a blunder, they should remove this effect for all cases, and save it for only when Its about to rain. That would be nice.

I agree, it looks really weird. It's like reverse HDR lighting and it's really awkward. I'm replying in hopes of someone having found a workaround, or something.

I heard this was added to stop you from seeing the sun or moon at the end of a long tunnel. Too bad it still doesn't work for that and instead just ruins the atmospehere of Minecraft.

Just gonna toss in my two cents, which is that I do not like this effect... at best it is weird looking and most of the time it is disorienting.


I am going outside, wonder what time of day it is, or what the weather is like? Well, can't tell from looking out this window now!

Supposedly, this was added so you don't see "light" at the end of long tunnels underground; however, they should have made it work like the void does; when above sea level the void is blue, turning black below sea level (except for superflat maps), basically an extension of the old void fog mechanics, which does turn fog black but only near bedrock.

Also, a similar effect is present in previous versions, more noticeable on lower render distances (slightly noticeable on Normal; entire sky turns black on Tiny) when you go under something, although if it is lit up it doesn't happen (1.7.2 seems to do something else; this is just fog darkening)

If your house is in a forest, this is going to irritate you big time.
"Oh, what time is it? Wait, I have to get out from under a tree or else it looks like a storm is coming."
It would be a cool graphic effect before it starts to rain, might be annoying to not be able to see the sun but it would at least make sense.

I think it should be removed. It's ugly and annoying.

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Supposedly, this was added so you don't see "light" at the end of long tunnels underground

Or, to put it in another way, finding problems no one really cares about and fixing them.

Yes, I hate this "feature". It's counterintuitive and not conducive to feeling like you are in a world that has realistic lighting. It ruins any screenshots looking out from a house or cave and makes it nearly pointless to have a nice sunset view window. I don't understand at all what they were trying to do with this effect, if in fact it was intentional.

Oh look In RL



If we are talking about RL then zombies, creepers and what not dont happen. Is it annoying yes but dont go about well in RL this happens with out point out EVERYTHING that not in RL in this game

Well all know Mojang been having issues with how lighting works in MC so hopefully this is the right step and they further build on it and correct some of the things

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If we are talking about RL then zombies, creepers and what not dont happen. Is it annoying yes but dont go about well in RL this happens with out point out EVERYTHING that not in RL in this game.

Don't be ridiculous. This is a Mojang attempt to make light behave more realistically. Therefore any comparison to RL makes perfect sense.

Check out the nether with this 'fog', you thought hunting ghasts was bad already? Now you're stuck seeing 20 blocks out.

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Check out the nether with this 'fog', you thought hunting ghasts was bad already? Now you're stuck seeing 20 blocks out.

I thought all this bug did was change the fog color? It shouldn't lower your visible distance. That's an independent thing (the render distance). The fog is now dark/Black in the Nether as opposed to the pale Red it was before, which gives a darker illusion, but it shouldn't actually make you see less further out.

Note that my experience with 1.7.x is limited, but that's what I recall from it. It should just be changing the fog color and not lowering how far out you can see.

As far as I can tell it's been fixed in 1.7.4! Yay!

In the Nether...I've had the opposite...I seem to be able to see more now since the last update.

The peripheral vision I can live with because now at least I have the distance that was missing from before, so it's been 'Happy Happy Happy!'