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Semi-realistic 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. Pushes towards photographic light while keeping the blocky world intact.
Complementary Shaders - Unbound5.7k followers · up to 26.2Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisOptiFinereflections · 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
Arc562 followers · up to 1.19.4An attempt at a mostly realistic shader that maintains decent performance; for Minecraft Java.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisOptiFinereflections · 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-rangeModestAnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
Body Camera463 followers · up to 26.2Adds a body camera effectPowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisOptiFineshadows · bloom · volumetric light · coloured lighting
RenderPearl436 followers · up to 26.2Clean, high performance shaders for modern hardwarePowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisreflections · shadows · volumetric light · PBR textures
Epoch345 followers · up to 1.20.2A vintage and Lo-Fi emulating shader.ModestAnythingOptiFineIrisshadows · PBR textures
CTR VCR332 followers · up to 26.2Retro stylized shader that brings artifacts from CRT and VCR / VHSModestAnythingOptiFineIrisbloom
E-LITE shaders (MakeUp edit)314 followers · up to 26.2A MakeUp - Ultra Fast shaders edit that is highly customizable, beautiful, and fast!ModestAnythingOptiFineIrisreflections · shadows · bloom · volumetric light
Cursed Fog287 followers · up to 26.2Creepy, tense shaders that will tickle your nerves.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingOptiFineIrisshadows · bloom · volumetric light · coloured lighting
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 strikingModestAnythingIrisOptiFinereflections · 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
Fantasy Shaders Unbound106 followers · up to 26.1.2A shader that aims to give a fantasy setting for those who like color.AnythingIrisOptiFinereflections · bloom · coloured lighting · waving foliage
Somber89 followers · up to 1.21.10Horror minecraft shader that aims to recreate the nostalgic atmosphere of early beta / alpha versions with an eerie twist, inspired by ARGsModestAnythingIrisvolumetric light
2KS82 followers · up to 1.21.10A simple shader that changes the atmosphere of Minecraft to the camera footage from the early 2000sPowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingOptiFineIrisshadows · bloom · volumetric light
Steadfast77 followers · up to 26.1.2A remarkably fast and unobtrusive shader pack with exceptional attention-to-detail.ModestAnythingIrisreflections · shadows · volumetric light · waving foliage
Retrus66 followers · up to 1.20.4A vanilla core "fabulous" shader that emulates the VHS/VCR found footage style seen in media such as the Kane Pixels backrooms series. Works on any version 1.17+, and as of now is considered feature complete.Anything
Raincore66 followers · up to 26.2Is this a place you've been before?AnythingIrisshadows · bloom · volumetric light · coloured lighting
Lantern-shader48 followers · up to 1.21.11A lightweight shader pack with beautiful lighting and pixelated shadows.ModestAnythingIrisshadows · bloom
Soft Memory39 followers · up to 26.2A shader that tries to recreate childhood nostalgia!Mid-rangeModestAnythingIrisOptiFinereflections · volumetric light · coloured lighting
Sildur's Enhanced Default Shaders38 followers · up to 26.2Improves the look of vanilla MC with shadows, reflections and more. Runs on any Potato!Mid-rangeModestAnythingIrisOptiFinereflections · shadows · volumetric light · PBR textures
Nwoof's Wynn Shader38 followers · up to 26.2Shader designed for Wynncraft.PowerfulMid-rangeModestAnythingIrisvolumetric light · 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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