A new major Vanilla RTX Normals release has arrived!
This update finalizes support for Minecraft's 1.21 Tricky Trials update and comes with a batch of new quality improvements.

• Performed full texture parity check with vanilla Minecraft for 1.21 (June 2024)
- Trial Spawner and Ominous Trial Spawner textures were found to be changed, PBR texture have been updated accordingly.
- Unknown tile/Missing tile (UPD ATE!) block was found to be updated in latest resources, PBR textures were updated accordingly
- Regular vault textures were found to be slightly updated, PBR textures have been updated accordingly
- Various other textures were also updated that were slightly off (usually not by more than a single RGB digit)

• Revamped all amethyst block and crystal normal maps with better tiling, now less noisy and more logical than before.

• Revamped Grindstone:
- Now consistent with smooth stone and stone (edges are considered to be made of smooth stone while the rest is regular stone)
- Revamped normal maps to reflect its shape.

• Revamped cobbled deepslate with better defined normal maps.
- Now follows a similar style and logic to ancient debris, where there is no part on the texture that is considered mortar, it instead appears as though there are layers of stone laid on top of each other, faithful to what the artist intended with the vanilla texture.

• Bamboo Updates
- Improved bamboo stem normal map, now slightly curved
- Updated all new 1.20 bamboo blocks with perfected normal angles similar to planks, also aligned them with new appearance of the bamboo stem's nodes
- Updated scaffolding normal maps to match other bamboo normal maps

• Other Adjustments:
- Decreased overall roughness of ice variants
- Fixed more jarringly dark pixels from certain angles on cobblestone normal maps
- Removed unused torchflower files
- Readjusted all log top normal maps, the curve now more strongly applies to non-mortar parts
- Removed cached textures and file lists as they caused unexpected errors instead of preventing them, and came without any significant effect on load times.
- Improved iron block normal map
- Increased cake normal map intensities and adjusted top
- Updated various normal maps that had plank texture in them to match intensity of planks (i.e crafting table, cartography table, etc...) / other general corrections to wooden 'table' blocks
- Minor overworld fog adjustments, dialed back on the red tone
- Minor corrections to lighting rod

▣ New Experimental Updates & Changes in v1.21.40:

Note: Experimental features and bug fixes are disabled by default and require you to switch to experimental option within Vanilla RTX Normals through resource pack's settings!

• Added 1.21 particle adjustments for ray tracing
All new tricky trials-related particles now blend-in with the world where needed, such as breeze and wind charge explosions, mace slam particles as well as other trial-chambers related particles.
Known issue:
- Breeze ground particles do not display in current Minecraft main releases, this issue will be resolved on its own once Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.2X releases are out.

• Fixed more issues with redstone ores reactivity in Experimental option where normals wouldn't display correctly.

• Further decreased brightness of wind body of Breeze