Smooth Lighting

Smooth Lighting (or Ambient Occlusion) is a new lighting technique added in Minecraft Beta 1.3. This new lighting technique is set on by default. It can be turned off by accessing: Game Menu -> Options... -> Video Settings... -> Smooth Lighting.

Before Beta 1.3, Smooth Lighting could be included into the game with the help of MrMessiah's BetterLight mod.

Known Bugs

 * There are lighting bugs on ice and portal when Smooth Lighting is turned on, since the transparency is made by the game, not the textures.
 * The lighting is still not smoothed on liquids. both still and flowing.