Minecraft Live has been and gone again and this time there was some pretty big news. Vibrant Visuals was announced as a future major upgrade, which will bring some fancier looking graphics to Minecraft.
  • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Minecraft java currently is really laggy, this looks like a nightmare to run on low to mid range devices

    • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      11 days ago

      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.

      • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 days ago

        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

      • 2fm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        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.

        • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          Sodium is client side, so it will not help with server performance. Something like Paper can improve server performance.

          • 2fm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 days ago

            True! I wanted it on the server side so it would push with automodpack for connecting clients, some on really old pcs or underpowered laptops.

            It works wonders after a couple of tests too. Meesa happy.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      Longtime java player with a decent PC and I always played with cartoony texture packs and saved the high res textures and shaders for screenshots. Still encountered my fair share of server-side lag, but that’d the price of multiplayer. Glad to see Java isn’t getting left behind. I play on Linux and couldn’t play otherwise.

  • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    11 days ago

    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.

    • CrypticCoffee@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Inevitable. They’re eventually going to kill Java as it don’t make the big MTX bucks. Push Fomo of anyone not on Bedrock until people don’t mind when they put it out of it’s misery.

      The art is to make people want what you want.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 days ago

    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.

  • Infernal_pizza@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Yeah they said this several years ago with the super duper graphics pack which was supposed to come to all bedrock versions and then they gave up with that and we just got Minecraft RTX exclusively on Windows 10 instead which was then shortly abandoned after a couple of updates. We’ll see if anything actually comes of it this time