Enhancements
Enhancements work around technical issues between vanilla resources and Minecraft's ray tracing, and improve how blocks and entities look wherever possible.
They're developed separately and merged into every public Vanilla RTX release, and into updates delivered by the Vanilla RTX App, where you can switch them off if you'd rather stick to officially supported features. For most people, you'll want them on.
Eyes that actually glow
Mobs that have glowing parts in vanilla Minecraft now show that same glow with ray tracing.
Invisible means invisible
The invisibility effect now properly hides the models of spiders, cave spiders, phantoms and endermen when ray tracing is on.
A wick that burns
Unlike similar light sources, candles have no point light. Their appearance has been improved with an emissive wick (1.21.80+).
Cross-shaped blocks, fixed
A universal workaround for rendering errors on cross-shaped blocks, foliage and crops with ray tracing (MCPE-189266).
Pots that look like pots
Decorated pot textures display incorrectly with ray tracing by default (MCPE-167161). Not anymore.
No more black mobs
- Breeze, Warden, the Creaking and more no longer render with black textures; the Wither, breeze wind and projectiles are improved for ray tracing with their texture animations restored (MCPE-157438, MCPE-141530, MCPE-183631).
- Missing copper golem eyes are back (MCPE-227676), and now glow with a unique bloom that wanes as the golem oxidizes.
- Villager and zombie villager texture issues are resolved, and their models have more detail (MCPE-111414).
- The Sulfur Cube's rendering issues with ray tracing are fixed.
Known remaining issues with villagers: a larger performance impact when many are present, possible texture z-fighting without ray tracing, and occasional head flicker with ray tracing.
Eyes in the dark
The Creaking's eyes now glow like Eyeblossoms, with a unique bloom effect. They stay visible even when the Creaking itself is invisible, and its black texture issues are resolved.
Point lights that keep working
Workarounds that keep light sources which used to have point lights functional (MCPE-227624).
Full-size experience
A workaround for XP orb textures always appearing small due to broken UV animations (MCPE-183629).
Cracks, rendered right
Iron golem texture crack rendering issues are resolved.
Every part, ray traced
Workarounds for entities with invisible or unintentionally rasterized parts: the snow golem's head, mooshroom mushrooms, and blocks inside minecarts (issue #28), plus glitched hopper minecarts (MCPE-241124).
Fins, intact
Tropical fish patterns now composite properly when the fish's base layer is transparent, which used to make large parts of their fins invisible with ray tracing.
Books you can see
Chiseled bookshelves are now functional with ray tracing; see the Vanilla RTX 1.21.50 changelog for how the workaround works (MCPE-166159).
Whole-cat shadows
Tamed cats now cast a shadow with their entire body.
Water that looks like water
Water in cauldrons no longer uses the wrong texture, which gave it a rough appearance unlike water.
Light from every side
The Jack o'Lantern now emits light from all sides, matching its vanilla look and function more closely.
No more black models
In-world models of enchanted tridents and firework rockets no longer appear black.
Colour-corrected doors
Doors usually look much darker with ray tracing (MCPE-121412). This workaround corrects their colours where possible; doors that are already brightly coloured can't be fully corrected.
Particles that belong
Every rasterized particle has been adjusted where needed to blend in with the ray-traced world.
You made it this far
With his bright purple gaze, the Enderman congratulates you for making it all the way down here.
Vanilla resources, made available for Minecraft RTX
Several other fixes and enhancements are included but left off this page to keep it short. The goal of the Enhanced option is to resolve as many issues as possible.