Minecraft with ray tracing: Everything you need to know

Bringing ray tracing to a classic.

Minecraft is hardly known for having cutting edge graphics. Instead, it focuses on addictive gameplay lined with bewilderingly deep mechanics. However, people have long been asking for Minecraft to be blessed with something more thorough than a regular texture pack. After the planned 'Super Duper Graphics Pack' for the Xbox One X was unfortunately canceled due to disappointing performance, it really looked like we were going to be left without any sort of upgrade for Minecraft.

Much to our surprise, what was previously a collection of rumors or projects by mad computer wizards in their basements was officially revealed just a week later: ray tracing is coming to Minecraft.


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