- Minecraft Preview 1.21.80.25 has dropped the feature to the toggle on Vibrant Visuals in the Bedrock version from the Experiments tab in the game settings.
- The Vibrant Visuals feature will enhance the game's blocky graphics, improve lighting, shadows, and reflections, and add greater detailing to the environment and mobs.
- Finally, the Spring to Life update of Minecraft introduces several other new features, such as animal variants, new flowers, ambient noises, and trade rebalances.
In the first Minecraft Live event of 2025, Mojang announced that it would bring in an amazing new feature called Vibrant Visuals to the Bedrock edition. This is one of the most needed upgrades for the Bedrock version since they don’t support mods and shaders like Java. At this point, the announcement of Vibrant Visuals sounded like a boon to all the Bedrock players, and with the latest Bedrock Preview you can actually try out this feature now. So, let’s find out all the steps to turn on Vibrant Visuals in Minecraft right here.
How to Turn On Vibrant Visuals Available in Minecraft?
The latest Minecraft Bedrock Preview 1.21.80.25 has brought several changes to the game, along with the most anticipated Vibrant Visuals and types of Ghasts. Toggling on the Vibrant Visuals feature will enhance the quality of your vanilla Minecraft graphics manyfold. So, in order to turn this on, simply follow the set of steps below:
- Open up your Minecraft Launcher and select the Bedrock tab on the left-hand side.
- Select the Latest Preview option and click on the Play button.
- Once your game launches on the screen, click on the Play Preview button. Now, you can either create a new World or edit your pre-existing world to apply new changes.
- When you reach the world creation page, select the Experiments tab on the left and toggle the Vibrant Visuals option under Graphics.
- Click on the Turn on Experiments anyway button, and finally click on the Play button.
- This will open up your newly created world,and you might notice the enhanced graphics on your screen.
- If the graphics appear to be the same as before, then don’t worry. Open the Settings from the Pause menu and go to the Videos tab.
- Scroll down and locate the Graphics Mode. Under this tab, toggle the Fancy or Simple options to Vibrant Visuals and exit the Settings menu to play the game.
After completing these steps, you will be able to view your vanilla Minecraft world from a completely different perspective. The fantastic light and shadow play, better water reflections, fancier clouds, fog, mountains, and landscapes will all be top-notch, just like you would see when a Java player turns on their shaders.
All of these changes will surely make your blocky Bedrock world feel more immersive and alive than ever. One of the major highlights of this feature is the light-shadow interplay. Furthermore, there is huge detailing for the Minecraft mobs, making them look more menacing than before. The reddish glow in the spider eyes is one of such instances.
Mojang confirms that Vibrant Visuals is “backwards compatible“, meaning it will run locally on your system. You can even play with those players on the same server who haven’t turned this on yet. This feature will not alter the vanilla gameplay at all, and all sorts of mob spawning and redstone mechanics will work as intended.
What Else is New in Minecraft 1.21.5 Spring to Life
Now that you know that Vibrant Visuals is here, let’s talk about all that’s new in this stable release. Firstly, we have the different variants of cows, chickens, and pigs. These were some of the oldest mobs in the game and had not received any visual upgrade till now. With the 1.21.5 drop, we’ve got the Warm and Cold variants, while the regular ones are getting renamed as Temperate animals.
Next we have two new kinds of flowers, the Wildflowers and Cactus flowers. Both are unique in their nature as the first one is a sun-kissed version of cherry petals and can be placed on the ground at varying orientations. The Cactus flowers add a vibrant color pop to the barren desert and badlands. Other new blocks include short and tall dry grasses, test blocks, firefly bushes, and leaf litter.
The Spring to Life update introduces several ambient features to the game as well. This includes desert noises, leaf falling animation, and wolf variant sounds. Apart from all this, other new features include new textures for spawn eggs, sheep wool spawning rules, fallen trees (in Java), cartographer, and wandering trader trade rebalances. Want to know more? Head over to all confirmed Minecraft 1.21.5 features here.
Now, you know that Vibrant Visuals is not a part of the Minecraft 1.21.5 Spring to Life update. So, what are your thoughts on this visual upgrade to the Bedrock Edition? Let us know in the comments below!
