Continuity Fixes the One Thing That Makes Minecraft Builds Look Cheap

Place a row of glass panes in vanilla Minecraft. Look at the seams where they connect. Each pane has its own border, its own frame, its own edge even when they are sitting directly next to each other. A window that should look like one piece of glass looks like a grid of individual picture frames.

This is the problem Continuity fixes, and it is more noticeable than most players realize until they see it gone.

What connected textures actually do

Connected textures are a rendering feature that allows blocks of the same type placed adjacent to each other to merge their textures into a continuous surface. Glass becomes a sheet instead of a grid. Bookshelves align their spines across multiple blocks. Sandstone faces blend seamlessly when stacked. The blocks themselves do not change only the way their surfaces render when neighbors are detected.

OptiFine has supported this for years, which is why players switching from OptiFine to the Fabric performance stack often notice something feels visually off. The textures that used to flow together are now broken up again. Continuity is the mod that brings that back.

How it relates to OptiFine

Continuity implements the same CTM format that OptiFine uses for connected textures. This matters because it means any resource pack built for OptiFine's connected texture system works with Continuity without modification. Builders who have spent years using CTM resource packs do not need to find replacements the same packs load and behave the same way.

Beyond connected textures, Continuity also handles emissive textures for blocks and item models, and custom block layers. All three are extensions of their OptiFine equivalents, designed to give resource pack authors more control than the original format allowed.

The glass pane fix

Continuity ships with two built-in resource packs. The first adds default connected textures for glass, sandstone, and bookshelves similar to what OptiFine provides out of the box. The second fixes a specific rendering issue where vertically stacked glass panes show visible seams between them even with connected textures enabled.

The second one is subtle but worth knowing about. If you stack glass panes vertically for a tall window and the seam between them is still visible after installing Continuity, enable the Glass Pane Culling Fix pack in your resource pack settings. It is included and just needs to be turned on.

Using it with Sodium

Continuity is client-side only and works alongside the rest of the Fabric performance stack. If you are running Sodium version 6.0 or newer, Continuity works directly. For older Sodium versions, Indium is required as a compatibility layer between the two mods. Fabulously Optimized includes Continuity by default alongside Sodium, which is part of why that modpack is often recommended as a complete OptiFine replacement.