Minecraft is far from being the best looking game available on PC, but a recently released shader pack makes the game look better than it ever did.

　　The latest version of Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders, known as SEUS Renewed adds ray-tracing effects to Minecraft through path-tracing. Needless to say, these effects make a huge difference, but they also need a more powerful system to make the game run smoothly. Minecraft can run on pretty much anything nowadays, but the videos below have been captured on a system sporting a GTX 1070 Ti GPU.

　　they added ray tracing in the new minecraft shader dev build i am absolutely shitting myself pic.twitter.com/sEbY78Vuz5

　　— notglacier (@notglacier) March 30, 2019

　　Messing around a bit more

　　you can do indirect lighting and stuff now pic.twitter.com/X8q3msBen7

　　— notglacier (@notglacier) March 30, 2019

　　Here are some of the new features of SEUS Renewed:

　　Improved GI and SSAOSuper smooth Temporal Anti-AliasingCompletely reworked system for day/night cycle based on atmospheric scatteringAccurate sunlight color via atmospheric scatteringAccurate ambient sky lighting from atmospheric scattering via Spherical HarmonicsNew atmospheric scattering on distand land for a natural sense-of-scaleNew underwater renderingNormal/bump mapping from torch/artificial lightScreen-space shadow tracing for better contact shadowsVastly improved performance with long render distance settingsPhysically-based specular highlights from sunlightImproved 2D cloudsImproved rendering of stained glassYou can learn more about the Minecraft SEUS Renewed shader pack by checking out the creator's Patreon page.