Smooth Lighting

Smooth Lighting (or Ambient Occlusion) is a new lighting engine added in Minecraft Beta 1.3 with the help of MrMessiah. This new lighting engine 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 obtained by modifying 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 on both still and flowing liquids are not smoothened when Smooth Lighting is on.