[MC-272563] The ender dragon death animation is rendered behind blocks when using "Fabulous!" graphic settings

The Bug:

The ender dragon death animation is rendered behind blocks.

Steps to Reproduce:

Kill the ender dragon and watch its death animation.
Fly above the ender dragon and look at the purple lines.

Observed Behavior:

The ender dragon death animation is rendered behind blocks.

Expected Behavior:

The ender dragon death animation would not be rendered behind blocks.

Linked issues

relates to

MC-272014 Ender Dragon death animation is broken since 20w22a (and broken again in 20w45a)

MC-272801 No particles, translucents & etc. render behind the dragon death animation.

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BugTracker 2024-05-29T16:08:41Z

Can confirm.

Ceresjanin123 2024-05-29T16:40:42Z

This only happens with graphics set to "Fabulous!"
It behaves as intended on Fast and Fancy graphics

Ceresjanin123 2024-05-29T17:05:17Z

Quick code analysis by IMS

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migrated 2024-05-30T16:58:12Z

To clarify the image, what I meant was that the weather target is still depth checked in transparency.fsh. This means that even though depth writes are off, the translucency shader depth-checks it and (correctly) does what's shown in the image (putting the beams in the back).

Ceresjanin123 2024-05-31T00:34:04Z

I (well not I, quoting IMS again) don't see how Mojang can fix this without A: adding another framebuffer or B: adding back depth

And depth test/writes are exactly what caused MC-272014 so B can't (or shouldn't) be done as that would cause it to get unfixed. And that issue was honestly worse than this one.