The recent snapshots' changes to ladders have introduced a strange visual effect: if climbing a tall ladder, the more distant ones appear “thicker”. Easily reproducible in normal conditions, since players often place a lot of ladders in such configurations.
This is tied to ladders' mipmap settings; changing these may produce a more logical visual outcome.
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