Ambience - Client-side visual improvements

This modpack focuses on enhancing the Minecraft visuals, sounds and general feeling. It also adds some quality of life features while still maintaing the game fully compatible with vanilla servers.
Ambience was originally created for the the Expritan Server but has been made public and available to everyone with this Modrinth release.
Features
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Visual Improvements
- Connected textures
- Dynamic Lighting
- Better Skins and Models
- First person Models
- Shaders Included
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Better Particles & Effects
- Falling Leaves
- Visual Effects
- Smooth Chunk Loading
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Improved Animations
- Entity Animations
- Player Action Animations
- Eating Animations
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Sound Improvements
- Wind effects
- Ambient Mobs (Birds, Crickets)
- Underwater sounds
- Better step sounds
- Dripping sounds
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Better GUI & UX
- Blurring when GUIs are open
- Mouse tweaks
- Tooltips for Containers
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Performance Improvements
- Optimization Mods
- Threaded Chunk Loading
- Performance Saving when the game is out of focus
A snowy mountain getting melted by some light showers.
Two biomes divided by a natural river which has cut through the rock, hidden by fog.
A beautiful Meadow in a rainy morning.
A panoramic view of a savanna biome, with all the ambience features enabled.
A daylight picture of a mountain and a flatland.
A wolf warming up near a campfire.
A meandering river, passing through a jungle biome, with some happy squids swimming around!
A mountain landscape with some very pretty lights in the sky.
A majestic sunset.