lol. i haven’t played anything past 1.20.1 because they’ve added nothing meaningful imho.
shader mods will forever beat out anything mojang could possibly code. they’ve proven they care only for money and not their player base.
I mean, realistically, they were purchased for 2.5 BILLION dollars. That’s a lot of return to try and chase down. Money will indeed be on the agenda.
The money isn’t going to come from the game… It’s gonna come from licensing… Everything labeled Minecraft that isn’t the game…
Games are hard… Tshirts and cheap plastic toys are not
well yeah. but if you want sales, maybe don’t try and sell ugly broken seashells on a pristine beach?
Just from this screenshot, seems like it makes the water more blocky than it was.
side note: According to the article, this is primarily for the Bedrock version right now and the Java version will get it later.
Reflection in the water looks [reasonably] good. Sun in the sky is still a big monochromatic square.
It’s uh… great? I guess? But it’s still fundamentally a game that exists in a cube-world. Awesome graphics aren’t really the point.
Minecraft java currently is really laggy, this looks like a nightmare to run on low to mid range devices
Do use use the mod called Sodium? Vanilla Minecraft Java has bad performance issues that are fixed with Sodium. I’ve tried Vanilla minecraft side by side with minecraft + shaders and sodium, and even with the shaders, sodium made it smoother.
Yeah, have you tried the simply optimised modpack too? It is really nice.
Still tho, the issue is really vanilla, they haven’t fixed it, sucks performance wise
Was reading about sodium and some sodium addon just yesterday while playing with the idea of a server ran on a spare pi4b… Wonder if it would help with a 2-6 player server. I dont expect much of the pi4b (currently running piOS but I’ll dabble with any linux/gnu). I may just give sodium a go after all.
From what I understood on the recent "live"stream, it can be turned off.
But as others have said, there are many performance mods that don’t change the core game experience. Getting those set up can be a bit of a chore, even if you choose a different launcher that manages them for you, but it can be worth it.
Until very recently I had Minecraft Java running smoothly on a PC that was 13 years old. 1st gen i7 with a similarly aged Nvidia card.
…and I still run the same mods on the new PC. Saves energy, and reduces fan noise a bit, so might as well.
