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Fantasy Minecraft shaders for almost any PC
Every shader pack carries a performance tier its own author set, and a style. Pick what your card can handle and what you want it to look like. We are not judging which is prettiest; we are reporting what the authors said.
Integrated graphics, an old laptop, a machine that struggles with vanilla. These are built to cost almost nothing. Saturated, stylised, dramatic skies and colour.
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined10.7k followers · up to 26.2Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
Complementary Shaders - Unbound5.7k followers · up to 26.2Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
MakeUp - Ultra Fast2.3k followers · up to 26.2MakeUp aims to provide the best quality / performance ratio, building a shader that can be adapted to anyone's resources.Mid-rangeModestAnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
Mellow1.3k followers · up to 26.2Shaderpack with a painterly aesthetic made for people who want to actually play the game. It's easy on your eyes and on your computer!AnythingOptiFineIrisbloom · volumetric light
Noble Shaders724 followers · up to 26.2Using clever lighting techniques and powerful customization to create clean, immersive, and enjoyable visuals.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisOptiFinereflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
Hysteria Shaders557 followers · up to 1.21.3Atmospheric, highly customizable horror shaderpack, successor of Insanity Shader.Mid-rangeAnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
Bloop Shaders476 followers · up to 26.1.2A shader aimed at maximum speed while maintaining good visuals.
Scalable from low to high end computers.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisOptiFinereflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
Potato Shaders469 followers · up to 1.20.1A very lightweight shaderpack that is still fancy in its own way.AnythingOptiFineIrisbloom · waving foliage
Aurora's Shaders284 followers · up to 1.21.5Based on Complimentary Unbound, a beautifully colorful Vanilla+ shader meant for making the game look good while maintaining good performance and vanilla feel.ModestAnythingIris
Pegasus Shaders259 followers · up to 1.21.11A shader that blends high performance range with new features, and lots of stylistic range!PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
Fantasy Shaders Reimagined170 followers · up to 26.1.2Colors of fantasy, vivid and strikingModestAnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · bloom · coloured lighting · waving foliage
LIGHT Shaders169 followers · up to 26.2As light as light, as beautiful as painting.
Make you have both high FPS and good image quality.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisOptiFinereflections · shadows · volumetric light · waving foliage
Sildur's Vibrant Shaders115 followers · up to 26.2Very optimized shaderpack for MC: Java edition, around since 2012!
Runs on any hardware and supports every MC version since 1.7.10.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
Mello112 followers · up to 26.2Mello is a shader with high performance and great visuals.Mid-rangeModestAnythingIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · waving foliage
Allium Shaders111 followers · up to 1.21.11Allium, a Complementary Unbound edit. Push creativity to it's limits.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
DrDestens Minecraft Shaders109 followers · up to 1.21.11A High Performance Shaderpack with great shadowless Visuals and PBR supportModestAnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · bloom · PBR textures · waving foliage
Fantasy Shaders Unbound106 followers · up to 26.1.2A shader that aims to give a fantasy setting for those who like color.AnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · bloom · coloured lighting · waving foliage
Clarity87 followers · up to 26.2FullBright2 is now named Clarity and it removes all shadows and fog wich makes you see clearly everywhere and can be used for mining or travelling at night.ModestAnythingIrisOptiFineshadows · volumetric light
Wither Rose87 followers · up to 1.21.7A high-performance stylized shader with multiple color palettesAnythingOptiFineIrisvolumetric light
✏️SketchBound86 followers · up to 26.1.2Sketch-style shader with pencil outlines and shading.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisOptiFineshadows · bloom · built for screenshots
Energy Shaders Java80 followers · up to 26.2Energy Shaders for Java. A vanilla Minecraft shaderpack that aims on making the game more vibrant and aesthetic. Giving Minecraft a completely new Style. No Optifine/Iris required!Anythingvolumetric light · coloured lighting
Steadfast77 followers · up to 26.1.2A remarkably fast and unobtrusive shader pack with exceptional attention-to-detail.ModestAnythingIrisreflections · shadows · volumetric light · waving foliage
Raincore66 followers · up to 26.2Is this a place you've been before?AnythingIrisshadows · bloom · volumetric light · coloured lighting
DreamLight Shaders64 followers · up to 1.21.11A good-performing, dreamy, stylized shader pack with colored lighting and fancy visuals.Mid-rangeModestAnythingOptiFineIrisbloom · coloured lighting
Frequently asked
Which Minecraft shader runs best on a weak PC?
232 of the shader packs we track are tagged by their own authors as running on very weak hardware, including integrated graphics. That tag is the author's own claim about their pack, not a benchmark we ran, which is why it is worth more than a top ten list somebody wrote once.
Do I need Iris or OptiFine?
One of the two, and Iris is the usual answer now: it is faster, it works alongside Sodium, and it loads packs written in the OptiFine format. OptiFine still has features nothing else replicates, so a pack built specifically for it may behave differently under Iris.
Will shaders lower my frame rate?
Yes, considerably. Shaders rewrite how the game draws light and shadow, which is expensive whatever your hardware. Running Sodium alongside Iris buys some of that cost back, which is why the two are usually installed together.
How is this list ordered?
By followers, not downloads. A shader bundled inside a popular modpack inherits that pack's download count, so downloads say more about the modpack than the shader. Nobody follows a shader pack by accident.
Installing them is a separate question: setting up Sodium and Iris covers what to install and in what order. Or browse every shader pack by Minecraft version.
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