Features:
- Breath steam in cold biomes, appearing more often while running
- Mouth bubbles underwater, plus bubbles from open chests and decorated pots
- Dripping effect on the player after coming out of the water
- New particles for lamps, fires and campfires, plus their soul variants
- Sparks from burning entities, fast minecart wheels and struck metal blocks
- Footprints on snow and leftover snow residue when stepping off
- Cave dust particles and steam columns where water touches lava or another hot block
- Extra effects when running on snow or sand, and when placing sand, gravel or snow
- Subtle Elytra gliding trail and black smoke while the Wither effect is active
- Every effect can be disabled in the configuration file
- Client-side only, with no server installation and compatibility with most shader and render mods
- Requires Architectury API, Cloth Config API and TLib; Fabric support for Minecraft 1.21.1
Vanilla ambience is deliberately plain, and Effectual fills in the small visual details that make a world feel lived in. Your breath turns to steam in cold biomes and comes faster while you run, bubbles rise from your mouth for as long as your oxygen lasts underwater, and water drips off you for a moment after you climb back onto land.
The effects reach well beyond the player. Lamps, fires and campfires get reworked particles, including their soul variants, burning entities throw sparks, cave dust drifts through caves, and steam rises in columns wherever water touches a hot block such as lava or a lava-filled cauldron. Walking on snow leaves footprints and a little residue that follows you off the block, running on snow or sand kicks up its own particles, and placing sand, gravel or snow raises dust.
Smaller touches cover movement and combat: minecart wheels spark at high speed, striking metal blocks with iron, gold or netherite tools throws sparks, gliding with an Elytra leaves a faint trail, and the Wither effect wraps you in black smoke. Everything runs client-side, so no server install is needed, it sits happily next to most shader and render mods, and any individual effect you dislike can be turned off in the configuration file.
