Flat looking appearance of dark objects caused by high base reflectivity

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Current state:

With zero base reflectivity:

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When put side by side like this, I personally don't dislike how they look. Could potentially apply a noisy normal map to make the reflection less uniformly distributed.

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Still affects magma cube in the Nether and making it look too bright. Time to acknowledge it as an issue.