They announced that they started working on Optifine for Minecraft 1.18 on November 18, and in 12 days, they have made 60% progress.

Optifine is a usful mod (Image via Pelegit) One of the absolute necessities for running the game with shaders is Optifine. Optfine is a mod that allows players to run shaders with Minecraft.

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition already enjoyed its 1.18.1 patch update, but Minecraft: Java Edition players will have to wait a little longer.

Mojang Studios are now releasing Pre-Release 2 for Minecraft: Java Edition 1.18.2, another snapshot that includes additional fixes before the patch update releases to everyone.

Minecraft runs on Java version 17 as of this pre-release – and you can expect the same to be true of the live version of Java Edition once 1.18 officially lands.

Top 5 Shaders for Optifine 1.18.2 Minecraft has a wide array of third-party textures that can be downloaded to add a different visual experience for the player.