One question defines and guides the spirit of this project:

What if ray tracing came with a fully realized default resource pack built specifically for it?

Vanilla RTX is not an official work from Mojang or NVIDIA, but it sets out to be the answer to that question, through a continued effort to give it the care and attention a hypothetical native ray tracing pack would deserve.

The goals are to give each block its own character with ray tracing features, resolve as many compatibility errors as possible, keep the latest additions working with RTX, and ultimately bring a proper art direction to vanilla ray-traced Minecraft.

1. Make sure your system meets the hardware requirements and your graphics drivers are up to date.
2. Install the Vanilla RTX App from the Microsoft Store.
3. In the app, open Get latest RTX packs and install Vanilla RTX (or one of its variants).
4. Click Launch Minecraft RTX.
5. In Minecraft, go to Settings → Global Resources and activate the pack.
6. Join any world, server or realm. Ray tracing is now set up correctly.

Prefer doing it by hand? Every pack can also be downloaded directly.

Since Minecraft 1.21.60, a bug (MCPE-191513) can leave the ray tracing option greyed out even with capable hardware and Vanilla RTX active.

The simplest, most reliable fix is the Vanilla RTX App's Launch Minecraft RTX button, which sidesteps every settings-related bug.

What's going on: if ray tracing is enabled for the first time while you're already in a world, the entire world turns glossy. The old workaround was enabling it from the main menu, but another bug then made that impossible. The manual path became: turn on in-game graphics mode switching, enable ray tracing, then reload the world. The app does all of that for you.

• Unexpectedly low framerate (MCPE-121850): Minecraft's VSync starves ray tracing performance. The Vanilla RTX App turns it off before launching. Still want VSync? Enable it in your GPU control panel instead; it also has much lower input latency.
• Black game window: leave full-screen (F11), restart the game, and keep playing windowed.
• Dual-GPU laptops: set Minecraft to use the High performance GPU in Windows graphics settings.

Vanilla RTX already ships workarounds for almost every resource-related issue. See the enhancements.

To check whether a bug is Minecraft's own, try this empty RTX resource pack, which uses the base game's files. If the issue still appears, it's a game bug: report it to Mojang at bugs.mojang.com.

If you think it's related to Vanilla RTX, please open an issue. A full list of past and present Minecraft RTX issues lives in the bug tracker.

Absolutely! Vanilla RTX already serves as the foundation for many other RTX and Vibrant Visuals resource packs.

Use it in projects of any kind: videos, renders, your own resource packs, servers, maps. If you redistribute any of my files, give credit. You may not sell Vanilla RTX; this project and its files must stay freely accessible. Read the full license.

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Minecraft: Bedrock Edition's built-in ray tracing graphics mode is often called "Minecraft RTX" by the community. The name stuck because of NVIDIA's involvement in bringing ray tracing to Minecraft, and its exclusivity to RTX 20-series GPUs during the beta.

This website is a hub for my independent projects for Minecraft RTX. It does not represent Mojang, Microsoft or NVIDIA. For official information see minecraft.net.

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