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)
WARNING
This mod is very very early in development and highly unstable and uses alot of vram, there are many issues, do not use it with normal gameplay
Compatibility
Nvidia gpus RTX and up, older gpus that have software rt pipeline, may work may not, it is untested and support will be improved over time.
AMD the drivers 22.7.1 and up do not support opengl vulkan interop.
Intel arc support is unknown and untested.
Example Shaders
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as vulkanite-0.0.3-pre-alpha.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 13.4 MB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.