diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Wb/WbDrawDispatcher.cs b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Wb/WbDrawDispatcher.cs
index b72490e..6cd34f0 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Wb/WbDrawDispatcher.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Wb/WbDrawDispatcher.cs
@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ public sealed unsafe class WbDrawDispatcher : IDisposable
     private readonly Dictionary<GroupKey, InstanceGroup> _groups = new();
     private readonly List<InstanceGroup> _opaqueDraws = new();
     private readonly List<InstanceGroup> _translucentDraws = new();
+    // A.5 T26 follow-up (Bug B): WalkEntities populates this scratch list
+    // instead of allocating a fresh List<(WorldEntity, int)> per frame. At
+    // ~10K entities × ~3 mesh refs = ~30K tuples × 16 bytes = ~480 KB / frame
+    // of GC pressure on the render thread under the original T17 shape.
+    private readonly List<(WorldEntity Entity, int MeshRefIndex)> _walkScratch = new();
 
     // Per-entity-cull AABB radius. Conservative — covers most entities; large
     // outliers (long banners, tall columns) are still landblock-culled.
@@ -207,6 +212,11 @@ public sealed unsafe class WbDrawDispatcher : IDisposable
     /// recomputing Position±5 each frame.
     /// </para>
     /// </summary>
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Test-friendly overload that allocates a fresh ToDraw list per call.
+    /// Production code (<see cref="Draw"/>) uses the no-alloc overload below
+    /// with a caller-provided scratch list.
+    /// </summary>
     internal static WalkResult WalkEntities(
         IEnumerable<LandblockEntry> landblockEntries,
         FrustumPlanes? frustum,
@@ -214,7 +224,32 @@ public sealed unsafe class WbDrawDispatcher : IDisposable
         HashSet<uint>? visibleCellIds,
         HashSet<uint>? animatedEntityIds)
     {
-        var result = new WalkResult { ToDraw = new List<(WorldEntity, int)>() };
+        var scratch = new List<(WorldEntity Entity, int MeshRefIndex)>();
+        var result = new WalkResult { ToDraw = scratch };
+        WalkEntitiesInto(
+            landblockEntries, frustum, neverCullLandblockId,
+            visibleCellIds, animatedEntityIds, scratch, ref result);
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// No-alloc overload: clears + populates the caller-provided <paramref name="scratch"/>
+    /// list. <see cref="Draw"/> reuses a per-dispatcher scratch field across frames to
+    /// avoid the 480+ KB / frame GC pressure that the test-friendly overload incurs.
+    /// Returns walk count via <paramref name="result"/>'s <c>EntitiesWalked</c> field.
+    /// </summary>
+    internal static void WalkEntitiesInto(
+        IEnumerable<LandblockEntry> landblockEntries,
+        FrustumPlanes? frustum,
+        uint? neverCullLandblockId,
+        HashSet<uint>? visibleCellIds,
+        HashSet<uint>? animatedEntityIds,
+        List<(WorldEntity Entity, int MeshRefIndex)> scratch,
+        ref WalkResult result)
+    {
+        scratch.Clear();
+        result.EntitiesWalked = 0;
+        result.ToDraw = scratch;
 
         foreach (var entry in landblockEntries)
         {
@@ -236,7 +271,7 @@ public sealed unsafe class WbDrawDispatcher : IDisposable
                         && !visibleCellIds.Contains(entity.ParentCellId.Value)) continue;
                     result.EntitiesWalked++;
                     for (int i = 0; i < entity.MeshRefs.Count; i++)
-                        result.ToDraw.Add((entity, i));
+                        scratch.Add((entity, i));
                 }
                 continue;
             }
@@ -262,10 +297,9 @@ public sealed unsafe class WbDrawDispatcher : IDisposable
 
                 result.EntitiesWalked++;
                 for (int i = 0; i < entity.MeshRefs.Count; i++)
-                    result.ToDraw.Add((entity, i));
+                    scratch.Add((entity, i));
             }
         }
-        return result;
     }
 
     public void Draw(
@@ -317,14 +351,20 @@ public sealed unsafe class WbDrawDispatcher : IDisposable
                 yield return new LandblockEntry(e.LandblockId, e.AabbMin, e.AabbMax, e.Entities, e.AnimatedById);
         }
 
-        var walkResult = WalkEntities(
+        // A.5 T26 follow-up (Bug B): use the no-alloc WalkEntitiesInto overload
+        // that populates _walkScratch (a per-dispatcher field reused across frames)
+        // instead of allocating a fresh List<(WorldEntity, int)> per frame.
+        var walkResult = default(WalkResult);
+        WalkEntitiesInto(
             ToEntries(landblockEntries),
             frustum,
             neverCullLandblockId,
             visibleCellIds,
-            animatedEntityIds);
+            animatedEntityIds,
+            _walkScratch,
+            ref walkResult);
 
-        foreach (var (entity, partIdx) in walkResult.ToDraw)
+        foreach (var (entity, partIdx) in _walkScratch)
         {
             if (diag) _entitiesSeen++;