Not sure how this would be implemented but currently the behavior is that it will ping up to how many vanilla chunks are loaded in. If you try to ping anything further than the vanilla render distance, it simply wont.

Hey, as far as I know, Distant Horizons works similar to Nvidium, where terrain only lives in GPU memory (see here). As you might have guessed, the chunks are not actually loaded and therefore can't be raycasted to.

Distant horizon api has support for raycasting into its terrain if i remember correctly

Distant horizon api has support for raycasting into its terrain if i remember correctly

Good to know, I'll look into it!

I have drafted a proof of concept for an integration of the DH Api into Ping Wheel.

Unfortunately, with the latest version of Distant Horizons (v2.1.0a), the raycast can no longer respond within a reasonably short duration, due to heavy performance optimizations of the mod. From my testing, I've had inconsistent access times between 0.5 and 20 seconds on good hardware and up to a minute on a slower machine. With version 2.0.1a this was usually less than a few milliseconds at most.

I've talked to the project owner about the issue on Discord, but we can't tell if and when this will be addressed.