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.
Sodium is client side, so it will not help with server performance. Something like Paper can improve server performance.
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.
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.
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.
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
Its Microsoft we are taking about. They are not gonna be content with couple avenues of revenue. Everything must make billions or they will be thrown into the oblivion.
well yeah. but if you want sales, maybe don’t try and sell ugly broken seashells on a pristine beach?
I’m glad java and its array of mods exist. Name one game where mods made it worse! Minecraft is AS great as it is because player-coders made it great.
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.
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.
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
If they just add ray tracing to Java they can abandon it if they want, then we’ll have an awesome final version for modding. Ray tracing (and maybe some optimisation but that works well through mods) is all we need, content (like the last [many] updates) can be added so easily with mods.
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.
Yeah I feel like minecraft with good graphics is just Rust
