Vulkanite
by cortex
Vulkanite brings hardware accelerated raytracing to Minecraft Java Edition for Fabric on 1.20.1.
What it does
The mod lets shaders use the hardware raytracing cores of supported graphics cards to render the game, a technique borrowed from Minecraft RTX on Bedrock Edition. It depends on Iris Shaders and Sodium, both of which must be installed alongside it. Only the client needs Vulkanite, so servers run without it.
Vulkanite is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and is open source, with its source code and issue tracker public. The only published Fabric build is 0.0.3-pre-alpha for 1.20.1, dated 2023-09-15 on the alpha channel.
Key features
Hardware raytracing
Shaders trace light paths on the graphics card's RT cores, which the mod exposes to the rendering pipeline.
Vulkan and OpenGL interop
The mod shares memory between Vulkan and OpenGL, and AMD drivers support this path on recent releases.
Untested on Intel Arc
Support for Intel Arc graphics is unknown and has not been tested by the author.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
Questions
Does Vulkanite need Iris Shaders and Sodium?
Does Vulkanite have to be installed on servers?
In the catalog
Vulkanite is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,235 Cursed mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Vulkanite is a mod that enables shaders to use hardware raytracing (RT cores) to render minecraft (the same technology used in minecraft RTX bedrock edition) AMD the drivers 22.7.1 and up do not support opengl vulkan interop.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/vulkanite-mod
- Owner
- cortex
- Published
- 2023-04-20
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-09-15
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15