How to turn on ray tracing on PC PC is the most popular Minecraft platform and where ray tracing is most common in games since it is generally too taxing for consoles to handle.

Minecraft has supported ray tracing since an update in December 2020. We'll tell you how to turn it on with your NVIDIA RTX graphics card and where to use it.

Since then, players expected Minecraft to be optimized for Xbox Series X|S (and possibly PS5) to enable ray tracing, but that never surfaced despite leaked experimental features, hidden mentions ...

It's not as dramatic or thorough as full-blown ray tracing is, but these features also scale across platforms to be accessible to as many players as possible.