As a first-party Microsoft studio, Mojang Studios' games, including Minecraft, should get first dibs on any improvements that the tech giant implements for its games. Unfortunately, this hasn't been the case.
Specifically, Minecraft still hasn't gotten ray tracing support on the Xbox Series S and X, leaving players frustrated and disappointed. But, it appears that the wait is about to end soon after players discovered that Mojang has already started enabling full ray tracing for a handful of Minecraft players.
According to certain Minecraft Preview enrollees, Mojang Studios has upgraded Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on the Xbox Series S/X. More importantly, some Minecraft players have found a way to access ray tracing on the popular sandbox video game following the latest update by joining multiplayer games with PC players that have all the ray tracing packs installed and enabled. Another method that currently works is to create a new world and toggle "Ray Tracing" in settings.
While Minecraft players on the Xbox Series S/X still have to jump through hoops to enable ray tracing on Minecraft's latest pair of consoles, the fact that it's available suggests that the developers are all but ready to deploy the enhancements.