Complementary Shaders - Reimagined
Shader pack by EminGT
Keeps Minecraft's look while adding beautiful lighting, water and shadows, with excellent performance.
- Iris
- OptiFine
- MC 1.7.10 to 26.3
- 74M downloads
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Best Minecraft shader packs
Realistic lighting, shadows, water and skies. Shader packs need a shader loader, usually Iris (with Sodium) or OptiFine.
Shader packs need Iris or OptiFine. Put the .zip in your shaderpacks folder and pick it under Video Settings.
BSL Shaders
Shader pack by CaptTatsu
Bright, colourful and distinctive. A long-time favourite shader pack.
- Iris
- OptiFine
- MC 1.7.10 to 26.3
- 32M downloads
MakeUp - Ultra Fast
Shader pack by KDXavier
Built for speed, so even modest PCs and laptops can run shaders.
- Iris
- OptiFine
- MC 1.12.2 to 26.3
- 15M downloads
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Shader pack by EminGT
The bolder sister of Reimagined, with more dramatic, modern visuals.
- Iris
- OptiFine
- MC 1.7.2 to 26.3
- 48M downloads
Photon Shaders
Shader pack by sixthsurge
A gameplay-focused, semi-realistic shader with lovely clouds and lighting.
- Iris
- OptiFine
- MC 1.16.5 to 26.3
- 30M downloads
Solas Shader
Shader pack by Septonious
A stylised fantasy look with coloured lighting.
- Iris
- OptiFine
- MC 1.12 to 26.3
- 19M downloads
Bliss Shaders
Shader pack by Xonk
A fantasy-styled shader with lots of scene variation and settings to tweak.
- Iris
- OptiFine
- MC 1.17 to 26.3
- 16M downloads
Rethinking Voxels
Shader pack by gri573
Coloured block light with sharp shadows, built on Complementary.
- Iris
- OptiFine
- MC 1.19.2 to 1.21.10
- 14M downloads
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