Minecraft has a long and storied history of cribbing features from modders and integrating them into the official base game. This includes hoppers, light senors, pistons, slime blocks, several of the types of trees, armor stands, displaying maps in frames, quite a few mobs, several of the current biome types, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff I can't remember offhand.

So yeah, stealing the idea (even if not the outright code) from shader mods would be completely on brand, and not at all unexpected. It's up to the player base to decide how they feel about this, but honestly it seems nothing short of kidnapping babies and setting them on fire would get any significant portion of people to turn away from Microsoft's stewardship of the game, given how hard they've tried to screw it up post-acquisition and yet it continues to print them money.

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 4 points 2 months ago

I wonder how much of this is network effects? I cannot describe how many times I have fired up Minecraft all over again after not touching it for awhile because oh, a friend made a server and my other friends are playing too! At least in my experience, it seems to just be a thing that if a social circle contains mostly people who happen to enjoy video games, even if we formed around liking to sing or something and not our love of video games, it will try to make a Minecraft server.

[–] Mora@pawb.social 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but there are plans to bring Vibrant Visuals to Minecraft: Java Edition in the future

Well if it comes together with the official modding API, I have nothing to worry about.😅

[–] foudinfo@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago

I'm guessing they are planning everything. From the official minecraft article :

Now we’re actively working on Vibrant Visuals for Minecraft: Java Edition and our goal is to bring it to the game in a way that serves not only our players, but also our modders and resource pack creators.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-vibrant-visuals

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 16 points 2 months ago

Players will be able to toggle between the new and previously existing visuals of Minecraft with the simple press of a button, meaning a classic look can be maintained by those who desire it.

thank goodness, shaders are pretty but I am massively suspect to nostalgia bias and I do not want to dedicate performance to shaders if my computer cannot handle it

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Would be nice if they revisited the raytracing implementation

[–] simple@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised they never followed up on it, it was kinda cool. I really liked the reflective blocks.

[–] comrade19@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think it's such a good implementation but it does make it a bit harder to play when you're in dark places

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Not a fan of the water, the new visuals somehow make the texture look even more obviously tiled

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I feel like all this visual upgrading kinda missed the point of Minecraft. It’s like colorizing black and white movies.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Remember the big graphic update pack years back they promised when the Series X console was due?

Is this its replacement or finished product, since it never came ?

[–] ssnoer@feddit.dk 4 points 2 months ago

I actually really like this. Its stylized and different. It looks nice and is not a copy of existing shaders. I am excited for this

[–] foudinfo@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago

To be honest the official minecraft article contains more information and is in my opinion better written.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-vibrant-visuals