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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 24/08/2026

Been cooking a new mod. Aurora's Decorations blackboards are getting their own mod: Aurora's Canvas. Still a lot of work to be done, but those who knew the old mechanic know what to expect. ;) Easels are not the only new features. :3 #mcdev #aurorascanvas

A Minecraft screenshot showcasing an easel with a blackboard on which an orange with an emoji face is drawn onto it (woozy emoji but with peaceful eyes).

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 05/04/2026

#Aurora'sLanterns is now out for Fabric 1.21.11 and 26.1! Now with chandeliers, holding up to 4 candles! We've just realized that we never announced the mod here? Also available on 1.20 and most 1.21s! It adds the beloved lanterns of Aurora's Decorations. lambdaurora.dev/projects/aur... #mcdev

A picture showing off an Amethyst Lantern on the left, a pole with a wall lantern and a wall soul lantern hanging in the middle, and 2 redstone lanterns on the right showing off their connectivity direction with the one below turned off.

A wooden mansion room with a table, showing off a ceiling iron chandelier holding 4 candles: 1 pink, 2 white, and 1 blue.

In the background wall there's also 2 wall iron chandeliers holding each 1 singular white candle.

On the table there's also a copper chandelier holding up a pink and blue candle.

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 30/09/2025

#LambDynamicLights and #LambdaBetterGrass have been updated for #Minecraft 1.21.9! Go get them on your favorite mod website! modrinth.com/mod/lambdyna... modrinth.com/mod/lambdabe... #mcdev

A Copper Golem in the snow, transporting a Copper Lantern from a Copper Chest on the left back to a Chest on the right.

The Copper Lantern lights up the area around it.

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 23/09/2025

#LambDynamicLights v4.5.0 is out for both #FabricMC and #NeoForge! This update might be quite huge for some people preferring NeoForge! Same JAR, both platforms. Can't get it wrong ;) Read more on my blog: lambdaurora.dev/blog/2025/09... Download now on Modrinth/CurseForge! #mcdev

Promotional picture showing a Minecraft fox running away from someone, while holding a lantern and lighting up the area around it.

Large text on top says "LambDynamicLights", and the bottom text says "Now available on NeoForge".

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 24/08/2025

#LambdaBetterGrass v2 is now also out for Fabric 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, and 1.21.8! This was quite the update rush, with a lot of internal changes 🥲 But finally! It is done! The missing 1.21 versions are now also covered! Available on Modrinth and CurseForge: modrinth.com/mod/lambdabe... #mcdev

A Minecraft screenshot featuring a dried ghast snug in the snow, some leaf litter under a dandelion, a firefly bush in the middle of moss carpets.

The scene is at the border of a Pale Garden, where a small spruce fence section delimits it, some of it is covered in pale moss.

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 23/08/2025

#LambdaBetterGrass v2.0.0 is now out for Fabric 1.20.1 and 1.21.1! Quite a few significant changes to up the quality of the mod, and back on Fabric! Still lot of work to do for the other 1.21s 🥲 Available on Modrinth and CurseForge: modrinth.com/mod/lambdabe... modrinth.com/mod/lambdabe... #mcdev

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 21/08/2025

Sneak peek of what I'm cooking lately! #LambdaBetterGrass is coming back! Who needs runtime resource packs anyway? The mod now directly injects the runtime-generated textures instead, which easily removes any reliance on Quilt, allowing to move back to Fabric, and should be faster to load. #mcdev

A screenshot of a landscape in Minecraft with the debug HUD opened, displaying the presence of LambdaBetterGrass with the grass blocks connecting to each other. The debug HUD mentions this is a screenshot from Minecraft 1.20.1 with Fabric.

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 20/07/2025

#LovelySnails is now out for #Minecraft 1.21.6-1.21.8! Get it now on your favorite mod hosting platform! modrinth.com/mod/lovely_s... Time for the age of tactical snails. #mcdev

A screenshot of two Happy Ghasts each transporting a snail using leashes, with one of the snails being a big snail with a quad leash attachment.

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 25/03/2025

#LambDynamicLights v4.2.3 is now out for 1.21.5! The mod is now updated for the Spring to Life update. Notable new feature is dynamic lighting for fireflies! Available on Modrinth and CurseForge: modrinth.com/mod/lambdyna... curseforge.com/minecraft/mc... #mcdev

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 24/02/2025

What do you mean this is not how a train should follow the tracks?? Continuation of my little #rendering adventures with #SDL3 GPU and #Java 23 with some relatively solid MSDF text rendering.

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 02/02/2025

Been having some fun with #SDL 3 GPU API and #Java 23's FFI. Been rough, but I'm happy that I managed to reproduce the DepthSampler example. #rendering

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 29/01/2025

Since #Minecraft just got the Firefly Bushes with some neat Fireflies, here's a preview of how they will look like once #LambDynamicLights is available for 1.21.5! ;) #mcdev

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 01/11/2024

What if you could modify how entities are lit up using resource packs? New feature for #LambDynamicLights' next major release, this should streamline most mod compatibilities too! #mcdev

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 22/10/2024

#LambDynamicLights v3.2.0 for #Minecraft 1.21.2 and v3.1.0 for #Minecraft 1.21.1 have been released! Those updates contain crazy performance improvements thanks to my wonderful partner @akarys.bsky.social ! Out now on Modrinth and CurseForge! #mcdev More info below 👇

Screenshot featuring 2 Minecraft instances running at the same time.

On the left, the Minecraft instance has 950 magma cubes emitting dynamic light in a flat basalt deltas biome with a lot of particles, with the frame rate dropping to ~5 FPS, with the old LambDynamicLights code.

On the right, the Minecraft instance is featuring the same scene but with the latest mod update, and a steady ~70FPS and a much more stable frame time graph.

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 17/10/2024

#LambDynamicLights has been updated for #Minecraft 1.21 with version 3.0.1! It introduces an improved resource pack API for item light sources, fixes, and a road paved for improvements! More at: lambdaurora.dev/blog/2024/10... Download: modrinth.com/mod/lambdyna... Banner by @akarys.bsky.social

Banner of a foxgirl in a trial chamber, with a large stylized text at the top stating: "LambDynamicLights for Minecraft 1.21", and in the bottom left corner the Modrinth and CurseForge logos and the text "Now available! (and with more JSON)"

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 13/09/2024

No matter the longing for the past, nor the pull from the future, you should always appreciate the present moment to its fullest. #Splatoon #GrandFestival #TeamPresent

Art piece for Splatoon's Grand Festival depicting my character Aurora in the center, wearing a themed outfit, smiling. She extends her right arm to the left, trying to reach a hand representing the past. She's pulled by a leash by the future from the right.

Her outfit is: her iconic beret but in a beige color, beige hand gloves, a sparkling top covering her chest, gray small shorts with a blue-purple as accent, and beige Converse shoes.

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 19/04/2024

#sploonfruits days 17 & 18: EmperaPomegranate & EmperaStarfruit! I've nearly forgot to post them, woops. Not the best ones so far, and we've reached the end of the pre-determined fruits. Now I only have the day 19 left to do (custom veggie: Octato). #Splatoon

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 16/04/2024

#sploonfruits days 15 & 16: SquidMangosteen & EmperaPear! I was too lazy yesterday, so today is another duo! Quite happy with this one as well, I feel like I'm starting to be consistent about it, which is super nice! #Splatoon

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 14/04/2024

#sploonfruits days 13 & 14: SquiddyPineapple & Squid Dragon Fruit! Shapes were hell on this one, but I've tried new things when it come to coloring and shading based on what I've learned so far and with some splatstyle references. AND I AM SO PROUD OF THE RESULT!!! #Splatoon

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 12/04/2024

#sploonfruits day 12: SquidHoneydew! Not much to say about this one, happy about the result, I think I'm starting to grasp how shading works in Splatstyle. #Splatoon

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 11/04/2024

#sploonfruits day 11: Squidapple! 🍎 After being super frustrated with the Ink Tomato yesterday, which I will attempt another day, I managed to draw something I'm quite happy with for the Squidapple and it was fast too!? Quite the funky texturing. #Splatoon

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 09/04/2024

#sploonfruits day 9: Squid Banana 🍌 Literally a banana, uh... Tried something different for shading, instead of using the shimmer brush I've been using I used another texture brush. Extremely proud of the gradient on this one! I'm slowly understanding each part of splatstyle. #Splatoon

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 08/04/2024

#sploonfruits day 8: Squiddymelon 🍉 Quite proud of this one, which makes me super happy as I think Squiddymelon is my favorite Splatoon fruit. I think I'm starting to grasp splatstyle well. Also, the perfect fruit to wave goodbye to #Splatoon 1 as it's the game who gave it life.

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 07/04/2024

#sploonfruits day 7: Squidplant 🍆 Honestly, not a fan of the shading on this one, but given I'm not the biggest fan of that vegetable anyway I'll let it slide. I also might have misplaced some colors but oh well. On the bright side, I love experimenting with the brushes. #Splatoon

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 06/04/2024

#sploonfruits day 5 & 6: 🥬 Squidage and carrot 🥕 Was too tired yesterday so it's time for another duo! I'm quite proud of the carrot, even though I think it might need some more texturing work on the leaves. I'm a bit frustrated by the Squidage roots tho. #Splatoon

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 04/04/2024

#sploonfruits day 3 & 4!🍊 Squid Orange and Squidkin ✨ The sickness took the best of me for day 3 but I still wanted to do the orange because it's one of my favorite #Splatoon fruits. Somehow still trying splatstyle-like stuff, I feel like my squidkin got close. 👀

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 02/04/2024

#sploonfruits day 2: Squid Leg Grape! We're gonna ignore that it's past midnight for me, I've been sick the entire day which made drawing quite hard, I'm definitely not at odds with my tummy now. I still managed to gather forces to draw this, I'm more proud of it than the lemon :3

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 01/04/2024

#sploonfruits day 1: Squid Fin Lemon! I've tried several things and hated every single style, and ended up trying Splatoon's own funky art style and managed to get something thanks to a friend's advice. Still not super happy but I have 18 other days to improve further 👀

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LambdAurora @lambdaurora.dev · 11/03/2024

I forgor about Bluesky woops. I spent way too long drawing this.

Screenshot of a fictional tweet with the caption "Ah yes. Me. My girlfriend. And her Snipewriter 5B." with the picture of two inklings: Aurora and Akarys, sleeping in a bed, while Akarys sleeps hugging a Snipewriter 5B.

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