[MC-68129] Smooth lighting doesn't work properly underwater

The bug

When you put a light under the water, it acts as if smooth lighting is off. I tested all the light sources that can be underwater and all had the same effect.

Same happens with night vision effect.

This can best be seen when setting Brightness to "Moody" in video settings.

Related issues

relates to

MC-139734 Certain block configurations cause sharp contrasts when smooth lighting is enabled

MC-227302 Smooth lighting doesn't work properly on the water surface

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Comments

migrated 2014-08-18T21:46:46Z

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migrated 2015-03-10T01:08:10Z

Can't confirm in 1.8.3. Looking at your screenshots, you don't seem to actually be having the problem you are describing. That lighting is perfectly smooth.

kumasasa 2015-03-10T02:22:04Z

Confirmed in 1.8.3, best visible on a light underground, see screenshots with Respiration III and Night vision

migrated 2015-03-10T02:28:02Z

Still not happening to me. I see a very visible difference between the two settings. See attached screenshots.

kumasasa 2015-03-10T02:57:20Z

There is a difference between smooth lighting off and max, but event at max setting it's not smooth as outside of the water.

migrated 2015-03-10T03:03:50Z

Oh, all right. I guess it depends on the exact conditions.

JUE13 2017-06-06T05:51:42Z

Confirmed for 1.12-pre7

migrated 2018-02-16T20:13:39Z

It would be great to get this looked into for Minecraft 1.13 since the update is underwater themed and there are many other water-related technical changes.

migrated 2018-03-01T20:47:27Z

Affects 18w09a

Hugman_76 2018-04-08T08:53:38Z

Affects 18w14b.

muzikbike 2018-07-07T09:39:16Z

Affects 1.13-pre6

migrated 2019-11-23T18:17:27Z

Affects 1.15 pre 1

migrated 2020-01-21T21:54:05Z

Affects 1.15.2. Is there any update on this?

pulpetti 2020-07-15T16:12:06Z

Affects 1.16.1

migrated 2020-08-28T01:27:19Z

Affects 1.16.2

migrated 2020-10-10T13:38:40Z

Affects 1.16.3

migrated 2020-11-04T21:51:55Z

Affects 20w45a

migrated 2020-11-11T18:29:46Z

Affects 20w46a

migrated 2020-12-02T19:01:15Z

Affects 20w49a

Avoma 2021-01-08T12:28:08Z

Can confirm in 20w51a.

Avoma 2021-01-20T16:55:19Z

Can confirm in 21w03a.

migrated 2021-01-20T17:18:20Z

Affects 21w03a

Avoma 2021-02-03T19:17:40Z

Can confirm in 21w05a.

Avoma 2021-02-05T09:18:26Z

Can confirm in 21w05b.

migrated 2021-02-10T19:38:31Z

Affects 21w06a

Avoma 2021-02-17T19:00:17Z

Can confirm in 21w07a.

migrated 2021-03-17T13:13:42Z

Affects 21w10a

migrated 2021-03-17T20:02:29Z

Affects 21w11a

migrated 2021-03-23T08:28:43Z

It happens even if block is not emmiting light:

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Avoma 2021-04-12T07:22:58Z

Can confirm in 21w14a.

Avoma 2021-04-14T18:45:44Z

Can confirm in 21w15a.

Avoma 2021-04-22T09:04:36Z

Can confirm in 21w16a.

Avoma 2021-04-29T08:43:02Z

Can confirm in 21w17a.

migrated 2021-05-29T13:50:14Z

its getting fixed?!

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?! Finally!!!!!!

DelimanCZ 2021-06-04T18:01:45Z

What? I wasn't expecting that bug to be ever fixed. But I understand why, if it didn't affect a newly added thing (MC-205840), Mojang wouldn't fix it and it would take even longer to be fixed.

migrated 2021-06-07T16:24:45Z

This still happens in 1.17 Release candidate 2.

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Avoma 2021-06-07T16:32:25Z

@unknown, your screenshot shows that smooth lighting doesn't work on the surface of the water, and that is currently being tracked in MC-227302.