Install PlunderEngine
The core. Does nothing visible on its own. WindLink hard-depends on it, and the launcher will stop you if it is missing or too old.
Downloads
Two jars and one text file. The jars are a pair: WindLink does not load without PlunderEngine. The header is for shaderpack authors and needs no mod at all.
Install WindLink
The wind itself. Drop both jars in mods/. Client-side
only, vanilla-server safe.
Add a shaderpack
WindLink works with no shaderpack. With one that supports MCWIND, the wind reaches your foliage too.
| Product | Version | MC | Loader | Requires | Licence | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlunderEngine | 0.1.2 | 26.1.x | Fabric | Fabric API | proprietary | CurseForge → |
| WindLink | 0.1.2 | 26.1.x | Fabric | PlunderEngine 0.1.2+ | proprietary | CurseForge → |
| PlunderPixels Shader | v2.1.0 | 26.1.x | Iris | Iris; WindLink optional | proprietary | CurseForge → |
| mcwind.glsl | v6 | any | shaderpack | nothing | CC0 1.0 | Direct → |
WindLink 0.1.2 needs PlunderEngine 0.1.2
This is a hard floor, not a suggestion: 0.1.2 calls a timing hook that does not exist in 0.1.0, so an old core would fail at runtime rather than degrade. The dependency is declared, so the launcher tells you before the game starts.
PlunderEngine has no 0.1.1. It went 0.1.0 → 0.1.2, skipping a number so the two projects sit on the same one again. WindLink 0.1.1 was released; 0.1.2 supersedes it. If you are on WindLink 0.1.1 with PlunderEngine 0.1.0, you need both halves of this update.
Spec archive
Every version of the header stays reachable.
Someone debugging a pack needs to read the header they actually shipped against, not the newest one. Checksums are the short SHA-256. Verify what you vendored matches what this page published.
| Version | Lines | sha256 | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v6 | 874 | 5748ddaf344e | Current. Wind shears a flame downwind, and it needs no provider to do it. | Download |
| v5 | 807 | 38739fee2853 | Superseded. Blown debris drafts the grass it skims past. | Download |
| v4 | 749 | 9eb07fd58f20 | Superseded. Canopy motion, clamp ±2.0, wrap 9600. | Download |
| v3 | 515 | b536d7494923 | Superseded. Ships the ±1.0 clamp and the
3600 s wrap. Archived for debugging only; do not vendor. |
Download |
v1 and v2 predate the public repository and were never published.
Which version do I need?
Minecraft 26.1.x only, Fabric, Java 25 or newer. 26.2 is not supported yet.
Licensing, plainly
mcwind.glsl is CC0: public domain, vendor it in
anything. The two jars and the shaderpack are proprietary.