Microsoft has started testing ray tracing support for _Minecraft_ on Xbox Series X / S consoles. A new _Minecraft_ Preview build is available to Xbox Insiders, and it includes limited ray tracing support. The latest test build is also marked as optimized for Xbox Series X / S, suggesting that a next-gen patch is coming soon.

I’ve been testing out the latest _Minecraft_ Preview, and have been able to successfully enable some ray tracing support. It’s not a simple switch, though. _Minecraft_’s ray tracing is enabled through additional resource packs, and there’s no easy way of downloading and installing these in the Xbox version of the game right now. There’s a workaround, though. You can host a _Minecraft_ session on a Windows PC with the packs...