Every build, the short version up top and the full detail one click away. Sour Client is built for 1.8.9 first, and each release is held to the same bar.
Build history
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The first build that launched anything: a launcher shell, Microsoft sign-in, and 1.8.9 booting with the mod attached.
The in-game menus stop being vanilla: a drawn UI layer, custom keybinds, and the first HUD elements.
Cosmetics arrive, and cloaks get real cloth instead of a flat plane stuck to your back.
Profiles, the settings importer, and one accent colour that themes the launcher and the game together.
First closed beta: the launcher, profiles, and the client base come together.
The native culling engine lands off the render thread, and the launcher takes over OptiFine management.
Render tiers go live, hot-swappable, with a stutter watchdog keeping frames on budget.
HUD animation rework, a rebuilt client importer, and raw mouse input for zero-smoothing aim.
Cloak sync goes one-URL, and the launcher, client, and site all lock to a single accent. Plus a round of stall and render fixes.
The long-running GUI blur leak is root-caused and killed, shader packs stop freezing the game, and first-fight texture hitches are pre-loaded away.
Name tags 22% faster, resource pack swaps about three times quicker, GUI blur working under shaderpacks for the first time, foliage that stops shimmering, and a cloak that moves like cloth.
Sign-in works again. Microsoft removed our app registration from their approved list on 20 August, which is why sign-in had been failing; this build signs in a different way that works today, and switches back on its own if they approve us.
More Minecraft versions, with 1.12.2 and 1.20.1 in the works. Then more mods folded in natively, deeper theming, and Fabric alongside Forge.
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The client rebuilt for 1.12.2, module for module: the same HUD, the same render tiers, the same cosmetics. Being written now against the 1.12.2 mappings, and it lands when it behaves like the 1.8.9 build does.
The modern branch. Newer Minecraft, same client on top of it, so a profile you build on 1.8.9 is a profile you can take forward instead of starting again.
A cloak drawn for Sour Gold itself, on the same eight-segment cloth the custom ones hang on. One design, ours, worn by the people who pay for the thing that makes custom cloaks possible.
Sour Client keeps replacing the mod folder. More of the mods people juggle today, rebuilt as native modules that ship on and cost nothing, each held to the same performance bar as the rest of the client.
More cloak types, more drape styles, and animated cosmetics, so what you can wear keeps growing long after you install it.
Custom launcher and in-game backgrounds, per-screen accents, and shareable theme presets, building on the one-accent system that already themes launcher, client and this site together.
Windows first. Mac and Linux builds are being evaluated once the Windows client is fully stable.
1.8.9 is home and comes first, and every build so far is a Forge build. Running the same modules on Fabric, and on a plain vanilla launcher, is the direction after the versions above.
Nothing here has a date on it. It ships when it is right, and this page is where it turns up when it does.
Version numbers and dates are pre-release and may shift before the public build.
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