Vanilla RTX

Howdy everyone! Do you happen to own a house in a swamp? I don't, but I still like my swamps swampy! This revision is primarily a maintenance update to get things back in order for the latest Minecraft releases.

Vanilla RTX v1.21.100 / Release Notes:

• Added support for Dormant Creaking Heart block state introduced in Minecraft 1.21.60

• Fog Overhaul: Swamp, Swamp Hills and Mangrove Swamp, Pale Garden
- Pale Garden water has been adjusted to be reminiscent of vanilla game colors with a natural transition between water and air.
Previously the bright blue colors clashed with the dark, dead atmosphere of the pale garden
- Water in all swamps is no longer crystal clear, now appears darker and murky, with colors now matching vanilla game colors.
- Air fog has been revamped to uniquely fit each three of the swamp biomes, giving them a fresh atmosphere.
- Vision underwater in these biomes is now limited. Depths now significantly affect darkness similar to vanilla game. This will apply to more biomes going forward.

• Performed full parity check with the vanilla resources (Feb 2025) this brings over some missing features and fixes others to work with the latest available versions of the game.
- Fixed the missing Nether dimension ambient sounds.
- Updated all client biomes for data parity with the vanilla game
Note: Unfortunately missing properties are not inherited from vanilla resources, which can cause issues without notice. This will be ongoing and will require constant updates until Mojang improves the client biome solution.

• Other changes:
- Updated seagrass and kelp heightmaps, with the new ones having no height variation near edges of each stage, this previous caused seams in blocks like tall seagrass.
- Minor improvements to various textures, such as withered rose, barrel heightmaps, and more.
- Removed unnecessary Eyeblossom texture.
Note: Inventory-only textures should not be included in Vanilla RTX unless necessary.

• Vanilla RTX's minimum supported version is now Minecraft 1.21.60 ⚠️

▣ Enhanced Option Updates:

• Fixed tropical fish patterns not being composited properly if the fish's base layer is transparent. (i.e. causing fish fins to go invisible with ray tracing)

• Adjusted various particles
- Added six of the missing particle adjustments for ray tracing and updated some outdated particle definitions
- Fixed a typo in one of particle file names.

• Fixed an issue where cats' collars would always appear grey without ray tracing.

• Reverted frogspawn inventory texture to the vanilla one.

• Added a universal workaround for rendering errors of cross-shaped blocks, foliage and crops (MCPE-189266)

- This applies to almost every block as follows:
All sapling types & mangrove propagule
All flowers and flower types, mushrooms, fungi and similar
All grass types and shapes, bushes, ferns or similar
Hanging roots, pale moss, and similar
Sugarcane
All corals and dead corals
Wheat, potatoes, carrot crops, nether warts and similar
All amethyst bud sizes and amethyst cluster
- Removed previous workarounds for dripstone and cave vines until a better solution is found.

⚠️ This issue will persist for the following blocks:
Glowberry vines, Pitcher plant, Kelp, Pointed dripstone, Weeping vines, Twisting vines, Seagrass, Sweet berry bush
Note: This bug doesn't affect some items in 1.21.60, but with the changes Mojang is making in 1.21.70 and later updates, it unfortunately will. This is as future-proof as it can get!

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Notes:

I am in the process of migrating Vanilla RTX from its old post at https://mcpedl.com/truly-vanilla-rtx/
into a new CurseForge-synced page at https://mcpedl.com/vanilla-rtx

The old post will later be updated to redirect people to the new post.
This is being done to avoid breaking the backlinks while migrating the project and in the process, changing the slug.

After the migration is complete, Vanilla RTX updates will once again be available directly through Curseforge.