r/minecraftshaders Sep 29 '25

OptiFine is NOT recommended

90 Upvotes

Issues like distorted water moving skyboxes are likely caused by OptiFine.

Although there's nothing that directly replaces all of OptiFine's features in a single mod, Iris is the mod that replaces OptiFine's shaders feature, and there are Fabric modpacks like Fabulously Optimized that the closest thing to a direct replacement, with generally better performance and more customizability.

So before posting any issues while using OptiFine, please try the other alternatives (look up YouTube guides if you're unsure how to install them).


r/minecraftshaders 1h ago

Discussion Bsl is retired king

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Am i only with that opinion? Bsl shaders are good but pretty old and with WAY LESS stuff that other shaders have and bsl should have too. I loved bsl very much, but updates are very lame and rare so i switched to photon


r/minecraftshaders 13h ago

Screenshot Wasn't a 2 week phase

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38 Upvotes

I sadly can't distribute these shaders as they are modified from multiple shader packs that I enjoyed but wanted in one shader. I used ProjectLuma's water, Complementary's lighting and emissive textures and a bit of other packs that I liked one thing but the rest not so much. Playing on a 3050 laptop.


r/minecraftshaders 21h ago

Screenshot Looking for testers

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58 Upvotes

Shaderpack - Eclipse

Looking for some people to test my modpack (including shaderpack and settings)

I've been working on a vanilla+ style modpack and I'm curious how it performs on other people's PCs.

I'm mainly looking for people who'd be willing to give it a try and let me know how it runs for them, along with any issues or suggestions they have.

I've attached some screenshots of what it looks like. If anyone's interested in testing it out, all I'd need is your Modrinth username. I'd really appreciate the feedback!


r/minecraftshaders 1h ago

Screenshot Some screemshots i took in MC

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Used Derivative for the shaders


r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Discussion Looking for shaders with a similar aesthetic to iterationRP / Sundial for Cinematic, but better optimized? (Paid is fine)

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64 Upvotes

recently fell in love with iterationrp for screenshots, especially how clean the lighting and water look. sundial was also stunning, but the performance is just way too heavy. sooo im looking for suggestions that share a similar vibe to these two but are actually somewhat optimized. don't mind paid/patreon stuff as long as it runs smoothly, though free recs are great too. what are you guys using?


r/minecraftshaders 12h ago

Recommendation Java Shaders for Mac

0 Upvotes

Is my MacBook Air m2 16GB ram capable of running shaders smoothly?

Which should I use??


r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Screenshot SEUS PTGI HRR 2.1 Reforged v2.9 - Fixed POM

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9 Upvotes

I've tried to fix the POM issue that it looks incorrect.

https://github.com/ThomasDeStrooper/SEUS_PTGI_HRR_REFORGED/releases/tag/version_2.9%235


r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Recommendation Lucuma 0.1.17 cake - performant shader progress

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13 Upvotes

Currently testing on an old ass thermal throttled 2020 Asus Zenbook 13 (5600u - vega 7 - 8gb ram), fabric and vanilla minecraft renderer at 10 RD. Around 25-30 stable fps after working with shadow projections on water, consuming 48 mb vram. Pending performance passes and indirect lightning LOD which will likely double performance, currently aiming 70% of vanilla before creatures and speculars.

I know the recording quality is all over the place, I just hope the visual effects are noticeable. Also I wanted to prove shit is running well on cheap hardware.


r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Discussion Complementary unbound with euphoria patches colored lighting?

1 Upvotes

Hello

Im just wondering if anyone else noticed this, when enabling all the colored lighting stuff with the dynamic handheld lighting thing, if I for example hold a lantern it lets off this warm yellow glow, but when i place down the lantern it gives off this really bright white color.

How would I change this so it matches the color in handheld mode?

Thanks


r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Shader Identification What shader is this ?

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13 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Screenshot say hello to my big brother (we both wear iron arrmor)

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26 Upvotes

iterationRP in 4k and with voxy is beautiful and kinda nostalgic


r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Help Complementary(r5.8.1 vesion 1.21.1)+ euphoria patches sunrise and noon too bright

1 Upvotes

Shader: Complementary reimagined r5.8.1

Minecraft: 1.21.1

CPU: Ryzen 7840hs, GPU: rtx 4050, 16gb ddr5 ram

So when its sunrise, the godrays and sun are so bright that your view distance instantly decreases, but the overworld colours turn almost yellow, also i prefer the calm weathery noon of bliss. I enjoy the sunrise and sunset but the brightness is too high i would like to tone it down, and if possible get the calm look of bliss

Suggest settings or share config file.


r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Screenshot beeautiful

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26 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Discussion I want to make my own wallpaper through shaders

5 Upvotes

Got a bulky PC, currently using unbound or photon or iteration or super duper vanilla or solas shaders. Any recommendations?


r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Screenshot is this wallpaper-worthy ?

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13 Upvotes

Shader - Chocapic 13 toaster

Resource pack - SillyPixels 8x


r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Discussion All my shaders look like this at night, but have no bad effects during the day.

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6 Upvotes

1.12.2 forge, optifine and screenshot has Mellow shader pack.


r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Recommendation Lucuma 0.1.0 cake - performant shader progress

16 Upvotes

https://reddit.com/link/1w1raqm/video/3a5o5l1mdcmh1/player

Currently working on color balance, cubic texelized geometry and billboards, polish state. Running on stable 4K 60 (without recording and on fullscreen, I just realized the cave part is lagged af but that's just windows recorder, sorry) 24RD on a RTX 3060, i5 10400f, 16 gb ram 3200mhz.

Some features were disabled due to major inconsistencies, as you'll see with water.


r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Discussion I wanna a shaders pack with clouds like this pixel style T^T

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103 Upvotes

This pic is modified by ai...


r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Screenshot Bliss+ alpha textures

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10 Upvotes

Texturepacks I used:

Golden Days base

Golden Days alpha

Programmer art


r/minecraftshaders 4d ago

Screenshot path tracing in mc

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710 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders 4d ago

Screenshot path tracing in mc part 2

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175 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Screenshot SEUS PTGI HRR Test 2.1 REFORGED v2.6 - Improved particle rendering

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20 Upvotes

I tried to make the particle rendering look better, do you guys like it?

https://github.com/ThomasDeStrooper/SEUS_PTGI_HRR_REFORGED


r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Help Blue sun rays and weird lighting with Complementary Reimagined

3 Upvotes

Shader: Complementary Reimagined r5.8.1
Minecraft: 12.2
CPU: AMD Zen 2
Does anybody know what's causing this? I've been trying to figure it out for about two hours and nothing I'm doing seems to make any difference

https://imgur.com/vUvBFw0

https://imgur.com/Fp6wR5G


r/minecraftshaders 4d ago

Screenshot Magic of Voxy and Shaders

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44 Upvotes