What is new

Every build, newest first.

1.0.0

The first release, September 2026. Minecraft Java 26.3, Fabric, macOS 13 or newer on Apple Silicon. Free to download on Modrinth (pending) and from the GitHub releases page. Watch the launch film.

  • Metal ray tracing for sun shadows, sky visibility, one-bounce global illumination, water reflections (with the player and entities in them) and the fog's sun and sky visibility. Hardware ray tracing on M3 and later; M1 and M2 run the same kernels in software.
  • Deferred physically based rendering with four-cascade PCSS soft shadows, SSAO, contact shadows and screen-space reflections.
  • The water engine: a fetch-limited wave spectrum, a simulated ripple field with splashes, boat wakes and rain rings, caustics, falling water and plunge pools, streams, shorelines and ice.
  • Volumetric fog and light shafts colored by stained glass, the square clouds and sun lit by the atmosphere model, sunsets, stars, nebulae and a flowing aurora.
  • Weather that knows where it rains and snows: dry deserts, snow biomes, shelter under roofs and leaves, storms, lightning and snow on leaves.
  • Colored block light with flickering flames, dynamic lights from held items, glass mirrors, the Nether and the End.
  • The extended render distance: level-of-detail terrain far past the vanilla render distance, with its own shadow map and a seam that follows vanilla's round edge.
  • Resource packs: custom entity models and animations, and LabPBR 1.3 normal and specular maps for blocks, items, block entities and mobs.
  • A settings screen on K with four quality profiles, a switch for every feature, pass timings and an Advanced page. The first launch picks a quality level for your chip.

Known limits

  • Measured on one machine, an M4 Max. On an M1 or M2, start on Medium or High.
  • Generate horizon saves the far terrain it generates into your singleplayer world. Turn it off before opening a world you want untouched.
  • Depth of field is off by default, and MetalFX upscaling is experimental.
  • The first-person hand is drawn by vanilla.
  • On other platforms the mod loads but stays off.