Minecraft with raytracing – for a really large computer

Minecraft isn’t exactly known for having the hottest graphics on the market, but with a shader pack, the game’s graphics become significantly more modern. With the right shaders, it can even get some of the gaming world’s latest graphics news.

It shows off a new version of Sonic Ether’s Unbelievable Shaders (SEUS), reports PC Gamer.

Namely, the developers have added support for path tracing, a type of ray tracing. This means that the light from different light sources is reflected and refracted in a more or less natural way. Add a new light source with a different color and the light in the room changes immediately. Open a wall and place a window with slats – suddenly shadows of the slats appear against the walls in the room.

But Minecraft’s game engine isn’t the most efficient, and it shows. Twitter user @notglacier writes that he has a computer with an Intel Core I9-9900k processor and Geforce GTX 1070 Ti, and gets between 25 and 40 frames per second with the shader package activated.

they added ray tracing in the new minecraft shader dev build i am absolutely shitting myself pic.twitter.com/sEbY78Vuz5

— notglacier (@notglacier) 30 March 2019