BetterRTX Shader (1.26+) – World’s First Bedrock Ray Tracing Shader
BetterRTX is a free, community-built shader mod that adds proper ray-traced lighting to Minecraft Bedrock – reflections, shadows and better light behavior layered on top of your existing textures, not a texture pack replacement. It’s maintained by an independent open-source team and isn’t affiliated with NVIDIA or Mojang. This page hosts the current standalone installer app – you download and run a real program, not a script pasted into a terminal, and it places its files alongside your normal Minecraft install without overwriting anything.
Features:
- Ray-traced reflections on water, glass and other reflective blocks
- Ray-traced shadows with more natural light falloff than vanilla
- Tone mapping for a more balanced, less washed-out look in bright scenes
- Depth of field for a cinematic camera feel
- Color grading adjustments on top of the base ray-traced image
- Installs alongside your existing Minecraft files instead of overwriting them, so it can be removed cleanly
System Requirements:
Windows 10/11, 64-bit, with a ray-tracing-capable GPU – this is a hardware requirement, not just a recommendation, since the effect is real ray tracing rather than a lighting approximation.
Minimum:
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (or better), AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (or better)
- CPU: Intel Core i5 (equivalent or better)
- RAM: 8GB+
- Storage: 2GB+
Recommended:
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (or better)
- CPU: Intel Core i5 (equivalent or better)
- RAM: 8GB+
- Storage: 2GB+
Before You Install:
The installer needs to place files inside Minecraft’s own install folder, and a normal Microsoft Store copy of Minecraft keeps that folder locked while the app is registered. You have two options: install Minecraft through a third-party sideloading launcher instead of the Microsoft Store (this avoids the lock entirely), or keep your normal Store install and use a file-unlocking utility to let the installer write to it. If your first install attempt fails with a permissions/file-lock error, this is almost always why.