Freshly revealed at Minecraft Live, a major new graphical update is on the way to Minecraft, titled “Vibrant Visuals.”
This upcoming upgrade will initially be released for compatible Minecraft: Bedrock Edition devices, but there are plans to bring Vibrant Visuals to Minecraft: Java Edition in the future. It includes improved visual elements such as directional lighting, volumetric fog, pixelated shadows, and noticeably shimmering water. Purely a visual enhancement, Vibrant Visuals makes no changes to Minecraft’s gameplay. For example, “visual shadows will not impact light levels in a game-mechanics sense, or affect where hostile mobs spawn.”
Players will be able to toggle between the new and previously existing visuals of…