Minecraft LIVE – March 2025: VIBRANT VISUALS

Vibrant Visuals is our upcoming visual upgrade that might change the way you look at your Minecraft worlds forever! Here’s a first look!

We’re planning to bring Vibrant Visuals to Java sometime in the future but it will first be available on compatible Bedrock devices in the coming months.

This Minecraft LIVE was packed! We took a close look at our Spring to Life game drop, unveiled the upcoming happy ghast, and took a first look at Vibrant Visuals. Top that off with exclusive content from A Minecraft Movie, an in-game Live event, Element Animation’s latest masterpiece, and the return of the Tinies. You’re in for a treat!

[Zefyren]

Built in shaders from Mojang?! I'm glad theres still an option to switch to the new lighting system

[YourCatOverlord]

this is absolutely gorgeous, and i dont mean to knock on the shaders community, but this is easily my favourite. the hard pixelly shadows instead of soft blurry ones, the emissive textures, just everything is so stunning. i hope they keep updating this along with the game drops

[Blueblitzer]

Colored lighting should come with this, it would mean a new age for Minecraft.

[skye_music]

So this was announced for minecraft 8 years ago and finally it will come out

[DalekCaanOfSkaro]

As someone who can remember the hype around the Super Dupder Graphics Pack, it feels surreal to see shaders finaly added into the game

[Starryeyyed]

"Captured on a high end PC"
Thanks for reminding me my potato PC would explode.

[sacredgamer]

I am so stoked for this, for i've waited for this moment, and here we are, a decade later we are at the beginning of something thats supposed to come, i just hope it'll be as awesome as shown in the preview, and that they get this done in the best way possible. Also that they make it compatible with every bedrock version like the nintendo switch / switch2?, ps5 pocket edition and more ', :]

[RMTheMan]

This is my favourite announcement from any Minecraft Live in years. I’ve been wanting shaders in the game properly for so long, this looks absolutely phenomenal! Cannot wait for this.

[lelordiii]

Having Shadows being per-texture-pixel is so stylish and I love it!

[mr.sinisterx]

Some pointers:

-It needs color additions to block lights. Blue things should have blue light.
-Night time needs some work. Those clouds are brighter than the stars... Lower those and brighten the stars.
-The shadows in the night are way too black. Those should have a slight blue tint to them like the base lighting. Not for accuracy, but for vibrancy.
-The lava needs to be more orange and less exposed to itself. Right now it is glowing pink. especially here 3:49
-The intensity of the underwater fog should be lowered so the colors are not so single toned.
-The water refractions on the blocks below are great, but appear too yellow. Those should be either white or blue. You could also have it be distance based. Towards the surface it is yellow, deeper it's bluer.
-Light sources under the water, specifically those sea lanterns, don't seem to be lighting anything at all. The fog of the water is darkening the sea lantern when the light should be going through it.

[Owen-McFry]

I really appreciate out how it doesn't change the overall feel of the game. The aesthetic still feels vanilla to me.

[TtJ]

Doing more graphic and preformace updates rather than constant new mobs and blocks is a great way to keep the longevity of this game

[frogmouth]

This is more impactful to me than any new content would be.

[CaravanNoobs]

The pixel aligned shadows are an amazing idea. I’m looking forward to its implementation in Java.

[bicybic]

You guys should add reverb physics to the game too as an option. It would go great with this update.

[kyleyoung]

This is amazing, ive been wanting for so long to have pixel consistent shaders, i never expected Mojang to be the ones to do it!

[spacesdnb]

Can’t wait for the next 2 week phase with the boys, you know we’re turning this on

[Rhys-hrtt]

Im glad their giving a cool visual while being its self and looking amazing without bothering game play and adding more with seeing what the world looks like in both ways

[rQuilln]

I hope they prioritize the Graphics optimization first similar to Sodium before upgrading it into Vibrant Visuals

[JelloFishy-hzuy]

Minecraft finnally giving us quick peak updates frfr