Minecraft for Windows 10’s official ray tracing update has left beta and is out now

Eight months after its initial beta launch, Mojang and Nvidia’s free raytracing update for Minecraft’s Windows 10 edition has officially launched for all players.

You’ll need an RTX-enabled graphics card (perhaps easier said than done) to take advantage of Minecraft’s official ray tracing update, and those suitably equipped gain access to a special physically based rendering texture pack that, explains Mojang, “interplays with the ray-traced effects to further enhance the experience”. Expect “brightened blocks, emissive pixels, water reflections, accurately cast shadows, and rich global illumination.”

As Digital Foundry’s Alex Battaglia explained earlier this year, the results really are impressive. “Let’s not mince words here – path tracing in Minecraft is one of the most transformative uses of ray tracing we’ve seen,” he wrote. “In Minecraft RTX, everything is ray traced: every element is realistically, correctly lit – and…the extent of this implementation produces effects we’ve never seen in games before.”

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