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Minecraft Super Duper 4K graphics pack: Delay, pricing, and more (update)

Minecraft ‘Super Duper Graphics Pack’
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Update August 12, 2019: Sadly, the Minecraft Super Duper graphics pack has been cancelled. Mojang said that they «weren’t happy» with its performance across devices. Unfortunately, it looks like Minecraft will not get enhancements on the Bedrock Edition any time soon. But you can pick up awesome shaders for the PC Java Edition of Minecraft.

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In 2017, Microsoft revealed the Minecraft 4K Super Duper graphics pack, set to bring gorgeous new visuals to the game’s famed blocky art style. The Super Duper graphics pack includes all-new shaders, lighting effects, new textures and includes more detailed models, but as of yet, it hasn’t materialized.

So what’s going on? Here’s what we know (so far).

Features

Microsoft was keen to emphasize that the Super Duper graphics pack is entirely optional. While the free update will bring 4K and HDR support to Xbox One X and Windows 10 PC versions of the game, the Super Duper graphics pack is an optional expansion that will change Minecraft’s iconic look to add a little modern flair. Here are some of the ways it will enhance the game.

Volumetric lighting.
Enhanced water textures, complete with reflective surfaces.
Dynamic shadows with object edge highlighting.
Reflective textures for blocks, adding highlights to diamond blocks for example.
3D models for objects that were previously just flat textures, such as rail tracks and foliage.

Pricing

While Minecraft for Xbox One X and Windows 10 PC will pick up 4K and HDR features for free, the Super Duper graphics pack which includes some of the more advanced features such as volumetric lighting and texture updates will be a paid content expansion. Walmart listed the Super Duper graphics pack at $10 before the listing was pulled, so expect the price to be somewhere in that region.

Release date: Super Duper delay

The Minecraft Super Duper graphics pack has been delayed somewhat, originally expected to launch in 2017. The pack is being built for the Bedrock version of Minecraft, specifically with high-end Windows 10 PCs and Xbox One X in mind.

A Minecraft developer has confirmed that the graphics engine for the Bedrock edition of Minecraft (which runs on Xbox One, Windows 10, Nintendo Switch, mobile devices, and VR) had to be re- written in order to support these new features.

Minecraft developer here. The Graphics Team is still hard at work on this (it ended up being a ton more work than initially anticipated). The graphics part of our engine was quite honestly simply not built for this, and when we tried to put all the new features in piece by piece things went bad. Performance, even on the Xbox One X, was between bad and inconsistent during all the internal play sessions we had.It will come, but we don’t have a date yet. The gameplay team has been hard at work on the Update Aquatic, while the rest of the Engine team has been working on the Switch release alongside fixing performance issues on Xbox One. Those fixes are much closer than Super Duper 🙂

As such, it looks as though the Super Duper graphics pack may not even make it out in 2018, possibly pushed back into 2019. Long story short, don’t expect it any time soon (as of writing). We’ll update you as soon as we know more.

Update April 26, 2019: We’ve checked in with some of our sources within the Minecraft team and it sounds as though work is still ongoing, however the project has developed a little further beyond being a mere «graphics pack,» and has ended up requiring a significant re-write of the Bedrock graphics engine to accomodate features like ray tracing. There is still no planned launch time frame for Super Duper as of writing. We’ll try and get further clarification from Microsoft as soon as possible.

Worth the wait?

If the Super Duper graphics pack looks anything like it does in the original teaser video, I’d say that it will be worth the wait. The features described in the video have only been available to PC gamers using the Java Edition laced with mods up to this point, so for these sorts of advanced visuals to be available more broadly will be super duper.

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Minecraft Super Duper Graphics Update Has Been Cancelled

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Minecraft’s long-awaited graphics update has been cancelled following a long period of silence.

By Matthew Byrd | August 12, 2019 |

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The much-hyped Minecraft Super Duper Graphics update is now officially dead.

“Some of you might remember us announcing the Super Duper Graphics Pack during E3 2017. Super Duper was an ambitious initiative that brought a new look to Minecraft,” reads a post on the Minecraft blog. “Unfortunately, the pack proved too technically demanding to implement as planned. We realize this is disappointing to some of you – there was a lot of enthusiasm for Super Duper from inside and outside the studio – but unfortunately, we aren’t happy with how the pack performed across devices. For this reason, we’re stopping development on the pack, and looking into other ways for you to experience Minecraft with a new look.”

The Super Duper Graphics update was revealed in 2017. The update promised to bring high-end visuals to Minecraft that included modern effects like dynamic shadows and edge highlighting. It was essentially going to make Minecraft look much closer to a triple-A game.

Fans started to fear for the future of the update when Minecraft developer Mojang delayed the updates release date from 2017 to 2018 and then failed to share any substantial new information regarding it for over a year. It was basically considered to be dead at that point.

What’s interesting about the official announcement regarding that the cancellation of the Super Duper update is the line in which Mojang states that they weren’t “happy with how the pack performed across devices.” That would tend to suggest that either the update was too ambitious for multiple current-gen devices or that lower-end devices like mobile platforms and even the Nintendo Switch would have had to have been excluded from the update entirely.

In any case, Minecraft remains an absurdly popular title that’s really become the flagship for Microsoft’s ambitious plan to invade other devices and consoles rather than limit themselves to the Xbox brand.

Matthew Byrd is a staff writer for Den of Geek. He spends most of his days trying to pitch deep-dive analytical pieces about Killer Klowns From Outer Space to an increasingly perturbed series of editors. You can read more of his work here or find him on Twitter at @SilverTuna014.

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At E3 in 2017, Microsoft announced an update for Minecraft , which, according to the developers, was supposed to radically change the graphic component of the game. The update was named so — Super Duper Graphics Pack .

Along with this DLC, Minecraft was supposed to get dynamic shadows and lighting through the fog, animated foliage and grass, new textures for mobs and rednecks, edge highlighting and much more.

Unfortunately, the update turned out to be too demanding from a technical point of view. The developers were unable to achieve the desired level of performance on different platforms, and therefore decided to cancel the release of the Super Duper Graphics Pack. The news about this appeared on the official site of Minecraft.

The Mojang team thanked gamers for their patience and apologized. At the moment, the developers are «exploring other ways to give Minecraft a new look.»

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