diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Streaming/LandblockStreamer.cs b/src/AcDream.App/Streaming/LandblockStreamer.cs
index a3416de..0811c8e 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/Streaming/LandblockStreamer.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/Streaming/LandblockStreamer.cs
@@ -177,11 +177,19 @@ public sealed class LandblockStreamer : IDisposable
         switch (job)
         {
             case LandblockStreamJob.Load load:
-                // TODO(A.5 T16): route by load.Kind. LoadFar will skip
-                // LandBlockInfo + scenery generation; PromoteToNear will skip
-                // mesh build (terrain already on GPU). Today every Kind takes
-                // the full-load path via _loadLandblock, which matches today's
-                // single-tier semantics.
+                // A.5 T26 follow-up (Bug A): far-tier LBs must NOT contribute
+                // entities to GpuWorldState — that defeats the whole purpose of
+                // the two-tier split. The factory still builds the full entity
+                // layer (LandblockLoader + scenery generation + interior cells)
+                // regardless of Kind because it doesn't know about JobKind today.
+                // We strip Entities here for far-tier results so the render-
+                // thread dispatcher walks only near-tier (~10K) entities, not
+                // all (~71K) entities at radius=12.
+                //
+                // Wasted worker-thread CPU is acceptable (it's off the render
+                // thread). A future optimization (TODO N.6 or A.6) plumbs Kind
+                // through BuildLandblockForStreaming so the dat read + scenery
+                // generation are skipped entirely for far-tier.
                 try
                 {
                     var lb = _loadLandblock(load.LandblockId);
@@ -200,6 +208,14 @@ public sealed class LandblockStreamer : IDisposable
                     }
                     var tier = load.Kind == LandblockStreamJobKind.LoadFar
                         ? LandblockStreamTier.Far : LandblockStreamTier.Near;
+                    if (tier == LandblockStreamTier.Far && lb.Entities.Count > 0)
+                    {
+                        // Strip entities — far-tier ships terrain only.
+                        lb = new LoadedLandblock(
+                            lb.LandblockId,
+                            lb.Heightmap,
+                            System.Array.Empty<AcDream.Core.World.WorldEntity>());
+                    }
                     _outbox.Writer.TryWrite(new LandblockStreamResult.Loaded(
                         load.LandblockId, tier, lb, mesh));
                 }