diff --git a/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/config/VoxyConfig.java b/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/config/VoxyConfig.java
index 9135b6fc..37e1179b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/config/VoxyConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/config/VoxyConfig.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public class VoxyConfig implements OptionStorage<VoxyConfig> {
     public boolean useEnvironmentalFog = false;
     public boolean renderStatistics = false;
 
-    public static VoxyConfig loadOrCreate() {
+    private static VoxyConfig loadOrCreate() {
         if (VoxyCommon.isAvailable()) {
             var path = getConfigPath();
             if (Files.exists(path)) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/IrisShaderPatch.java b/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/IrisShaderPatch.java
index f3c78c9e..bc831b05 100644
--- a/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/IrisShaderPatch.java
+++ b/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/IrisShaderPatch.java
@@ -214,6 +214,21 @@ public class IrisShaderPatch {
         PatchGson patchData = null;
         try {
             //TODO: basicly find any "commented out" quotation marks and escape them (if the line, when stripped starts with a // or /* then escape all quotation marks in that line)
+            {
+                StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(voxyPatchData.length());
+                //Rebuild the patch, replacing commented out " with \"
+                for (var line : voxyPatchData.split("\n")) {
+                    int idx = line.indexOf("//");
+                    if (idx != -1) {
+                        builder.append(line, 0, idx);
+                        builder.append(line.substring(idx).replace("\"","\\\""));
+                    } else {
+                        builder.append(line);
+                    }
+                    builder.append("\n");
+                }
+                voxyPatchData = builder.toString();
+            }
             patchData = GSON.fromJson(voxyPatchData, PatchGson.class);
             if (patchData != null && !patchData.checkValid()) {
                 throw new IllegalStateException("voxy json patch not valid: " + voxyPatchData);
diff --git a/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/IrisVoxyRenderPipelineData.java b/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/IrisVoxyRenderPipelineData.java
index e5ff9639..93e81b4d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/IrisVoxyRenderPipelineData.java
+++ b/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/IrisVoxyRenderPipelineData.java
@@ -386,7 +386,13 @@ public class IrisVoxyRenderPipelineData {
         int i = 0;
         for (var entry : samplerSet) {
             samplers[i]=entry;
-            builder.append("layout(binding=(BASE_SAMPLER_BINDING_INDEX+").append(i).append(")) uniform sampler2D ").append(entry.name).append(";\n");
+
+            String samplerType = "sampler2D";
+            if (entry.name.startsWith("shadowtex")) {
+                samplerType = "sampler2DShadow";
+            }
+
+            builder.append("layout(binding=(BASE_SAMPLER_BINDING_INDEX+").append(i).append(")) uniform ").append(samplerType).append(" ").append(entry.name).append(";\n");
             i++;
         }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/VoxyUniforms.java b/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/VoxyUniforms.java
index 1c539805..e40871de 100644
--- a/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/VoxyUniforms.java
+++ b/src/main/java/me/cortex/voxy/client/iris/VoxyUniforms.java
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public class VoxyUniforms {
 
     public static void addUniforms(UniformHolder uniforms) {
         uniforms
-                .uniform1i(PER_FRAME, "vxRenderDistance", ()-> VoxyConfig.loadOrCreate().sectionRenderDistance*32)//In chunks
+                .uniform1i(PER_FRAME, "vxRenderDistance", ()-> VoxyConfig.CONFIG.sectionRenderDistance*32)//In chunks
                 .uniformMatrix(PER_FRAME, "vxViewProj", VoxyUniforms::getViewProjection)
                 .uniformMatrix(PER_FRAME, "vxViewProjInv", new Inverted(VoxyUniforms::getViewProjection))
                 .uniformMatrix(PER_FRAME, "vxViewProjPrev", new PreviousMat(VoxyUniforms::getViewProjection))
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ public class VoxyUniforms {
                     .uniform1f(PER_FRAME, "dhNearPlane", ()->16)//Presently hardcoded in voxy
                     .uniform1f(PER_FRAME, "dhFarPlane", ()->16*3000)//Presently hardcoded in voxy
 
-                    .uniform1i(PER_FRAME, "dhRenderDistance", ()-> VoxyConfig.loadOrCreate().sectionRenderDistance*32)//In chunks
+                    .uniform1i(PER_FRAME, "dhRenderDistance", ()-> VoxyConfig.CONFIG.sectionRenderDistance*32)//In chunks
                     .uniformMatrix(PER_FRAME, "dhProjection", VoxyUniforms::getProjection)
                     .uniformMatrix(PER_FRAME, "dhProjectionInverse", new Inverted(VoxyUniforms::getProjection))
                     .uniformMatrix(PER_FRAME, "dhPreviousProjection", new PreviousMat(VoxyUniforms::getProjection));
diff --git a/src/main/resources/assets/voxy/shaders/lod/gl46/cmdgen.comp b/src/main/resources/assets/voxy/shaders/lod/gl46/cmdgen.comp
index bf363859..673b9619 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/assets/voxy/shaders/lod/gl46/cmdgen.comp
+++ b/src/main/resources/assets/voxy/shaders/lod/gl46/cmdgen.comp
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ void main() {
         positionBuffer[drawId] = extractRawPos(meta);
         uvec4 counts = meta.b;
 
+        //TODO implicit command merging
         uint msk = 0;
         msk |= uint(((counts.y      &0xFFFFu)!=0) && (relative.y>-1))<<0;
         msk |= uint((((counts.y>>16)&0xFFFFu)!=0) && (relative.y<1 ))<<1;