Sakura Lava Vision

See clearly while submerged in lava. No orange blindness, no guessing where the shore is — just full view distance underneath the surface.

This mod is client-side only. It works in singleplayer and on any server you join, without the server having it installed. It only changes how your own client draws fog.

It does not make you immune to lava. You still burn and take damage exactly as before — only what you see changes.

Why other lava-visibility mods don't work

Every existing option I tested on modern versions fails for one of two reasons.

They silently depend on your helmet. Tweakeroo's tweakLavaVisibility looks correct, and its mixin does target the right method. But the distance calculation starts by reading your head slot, and if that slot is empty it returns the fog distance completely unmodified. It was built to scale with Respiration, like underwater visibility. With no helmet on, the tweak does nothing at all — and because its config uses defaultRequire: 0, it would never tell you.

Shaders override them. Any mod that only widens vanilla's FogData gets overruled the moment you enable a shaderpack in Iris, because the shader draws its own lava fog on top.

This mod avoids both problems by design. There are no equipment or enchantment requirements, and it hooks the one place shaders also read from.

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.2
2. Put Fabric API in your mods folder
3. Put this mod in your mods folder

Enabled out of the box. No configuration required.

Configuration

A config file is generated at config/lavavision.json on first launch.

There is a toggle key, unbound by default so it never clashes with MaLiLib, Tweakeroo or MiniHUD. You can bind it under Options → Controls → Miscellaneous → "Toggle lava vision".

How it works

Rather than fighting fog values, the mod targets the single point where submerged rendering is decided: Camera.getFluidInCamera(), which reports LAVA when your eyes are under the surface. A mixin makes it report NONE instead, and everything downstream follows:

• FogRenderer stops selecting the lava fog environment and falls back to normal atmospheric fog — no orange tint, full view distance.
• Iris builds its isEyeInWater shader uniform from that exact method, so shaderpacks stop applying their own lava fog too.

Only three classes in the entire game reference that method, and all three are pure rendering code. No gameplay logic depends on it, which is why damage and burning are untouched.

The mixin config uses defaultRequire: 1 on purpose. If a future Minecraft update moves any of the targeted methods, the mod fails loudly at startup instead of loading and quietly doing nothing — which is exactly the failure mode that makes abandoned mods look like they still work.

Compatibility

Built and tested alongside Sodium, Iris, MaLiLib, MiniHUD, Tweakeroo and WorldEditCUI. Nothing else needs to be removed.

Source code, the full technical write-up and build instructions are on GitHub.

Licensed MIT.