Minecraft Vibrant Visuals update finally gives Mojang the long-awaited visual review-but only on compatible devices

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Minecraft has never been designed with visualization as a key point of sale. Thanks to the endless landscape, the sandbox and the unlimited number of customs, the currently known Mojanga graphics have never been the main goal.

Today, however, all changes, along with the launch of the long -awaited live visualizations of Minecraft on the PC and a series of compatible consoles and smartphones. But not all platforms will receive an update, and the classic edition of Minecraft: Java will also remain without.

However, if you play in the main minecraft: Bedrock Edition on PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S or some devices with Android and iOS, Vibrant Visuals is now available, as part of the wider game Chase The Ski Update.

Chase the skies adds to the world in a game that you can get elated honored creatures, after years of stress caused by their means cousins ​​who spit the fireballs in the lower part. You can now also sleep a camel chain to create a resource transport caravan and track your friends faster with the HUD bar.

If you play Minecraft on an older console, such as PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, or if you play on an older Android phone, you must manually enable Vibrant Visuals via the Game Video Settings menu. Mojang warns that “performance can degrade for these devices.”

You will need the following technical specifications on your computer or smartphone:

• Android: Adreno 640, Mali-G68, Mali-G77 or Xclipse 530 or more

• iOS: A12 or M1 or higher

• PC: Starting minecraft on DX12

SplitScreen Mortoryer, Custom Worlds and texture packages are not currently served by live visualizations.

What about Nintendo Switch – or Switch 2? There is no mention of Nintendo console platforms in today’s live graphics Start the blogleaving fans in the murky about compatibility.

However, in a better note, Minecraft is now finally mentioned as Xbox Series X/S optimized, about five years after the current generation of Microsoft console.

Vibrant Visuals finally works well in Microsoft’s promise to launch the appropriate graphic improvement for Minecraft, for the first time mentioned in 2017, when a fancy trailer was issued for later evaluation Super Duper graphics package. At that time, Mojang said that this update would appear on Xbox One and “Project Scopio” – which happened Xbox One X. Now something similar has finally arrived.

Tom Phillips is the editor of Ign. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on BlueSky @tomphillipseg.bsky.Social

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