diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/sky.frag b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/sky.frag
index db25c71e..a511ef4b 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/sky.frag
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/sky.frag
@@ -191,6 +191,12 @@ void main() {
         // ~1.0 at noon. Stars at full strength only under a dark sky.
         float dayL = dot(vTint, vec3(0.299, 0.587, 0.114));
         float night = 1.0 - smoothstep(0.18, 0.45, dayL);
+        if (night < 0.004) {
+            // Daytime: the whole lattice would multiply to zero — skip it
+            // so the enhanced sky costs nothing outside dusk-to-dawn.
+            fragColor = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
+            return;
+        }
         vec3 sky = nightSky(normalize(vDir), uint(uParamB));
         // Additive pipeline (forced for this draw): rgb adds over the dome.
         fragColor = vec4(sky * night, 1.0);
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/spv/shaders.manifest.json b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/spv/shaders.manifest.json
index 1029e342..dd84a830 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/spv/shaders.manifest.json
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/spv/shaders.manifest.json
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@
         },
         {
           "stage": "frag",
-          "sourceSha256": "a6efd09f396b17ae6a19ffc4be400ac9b035056cbad26aee3447459cd98341f0",
+          "sourceSha256": "e7ccdb4d5fece2ceeb48eb43aaa827424df2b68614987eeb3dfb7880dff8ea83",
           "compiled": true
         }
       ]
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/spv/sky.frag.spv b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/spv/sky.frag.spv
index 54f0a569..f6fc7441 100644
Binary files a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/spv/sky.frag.spv and b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Shaders/spv/sky.frag.spv differ
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/Gpu/Vk/VulkanShaderManifestTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/Gpu/Vk/VulkanShaderManifestTests.cs
index 4a1a467a..6a54192b 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/Gpu/Vk/VulkanShaderManifestTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/Gpu/Vk/VulkanShaderManifestTests.cs
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ public sealed class VulkanShaderManifestTests
             // override, retail's GameSky::Draw @0x00506FF0 rule (see
             // SkyFogRuleTests). A deliberate default-path change, reviewed
             // with the world-fog-range fix in the same commit.
-            ["sky.frag.spv"] = "2d2de4080c7f4b0885aee4441e37a1725d3f30661b45773bcb39383674b1718b",
+            ["sky.frag.spv"] = "e307a7f3cf84aada86db7c2859c55841a650b46732f12149986562cef0a90ca8",
             ["sky.vert.spv"] = "3b51945fa4ff1be1604144df92866bdd47aade22f9dd90267591ef36adb28cde",
             ["terrain_modern.frag.spv"] = "7b3cdb01b837ed77ee20559a81c1ce5c9d5395300efcc072560ab0be3c5a1af9",
             ["terrain_modern.vert.spv"] = "9f4cb221ea6aed94a8d23af6cb8e3f3ed96c3cce6e50d135a72d3b55667b1557",