v2.5-beta.2 The Visual Revolution

From v2.3 to v2.5: a new look, better atmosphere, and more control over how you play.

v2.3 laid the foundation. v2.5 builds on it with more natural colors, refined weather, improved water detail, and a new quality preset system. The goal: a beautiful world with settings that fit your PC.

A fresh look

• Natural colors: calmer greens, softer sunlight, and less washed-out daylight.
• Refined water: corrected reflection normals, filtered fine waves, and calmer distant detail.
• Better atmosphere: subtler rain, darker overcast skies, and reduced horizon haze.
• More depth on Ultra: contact-soft shadows, ambient occlusion, and subtle backlit foliage.

Your favorite features stay: animated plants, moon phases, shooting stars, held-light particles, and wet surfaces that gradually dry.

Four new quality presets

• Compatibility: fewer demanding effects for less capable hardware.
• Fast: lighter settings while keeping water reflections.
• Balanced: the default mix of visual detail and GPU cost.
• Ultra: higher shadow resolution, stronger ambient shading, and foliage backlighting.

One pack. Four ways to experience your world. Switch presets in Shader Options. Experimental volumetric effects remain disabled in every preset.

Beta information

Requires Minecraft Java with a compatible Iris or OptiFine loader. Designed for compatible NVIDIA, AMD Radeon, and Intel OpenGL GPUs. Shader compilation checked on RTX 5060; AMD/Intel and in-game performance testing for this build are still pending. FPS and compatibility depend on your setup.

Help shape v2.5: share screenshots, feedback, and issues with your Minecraft version, loader, GPU, and selected preset.