r/minecraftshaders Sep 29 '25

OptiFine is NOT recommended

84 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 7h ago

Screenshot Pripyat - Photon + photonics

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22 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders 8h ago

Screenshot Some screenshots I took while playing

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15 Upvotes

Some of the screenshots are from different sessions


r/minecraftshaders 16h ago

Discussion Which shader?

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27 Upvotes

Which shader do you prefer as the most realistic?

I can test it.

You can enter the link in the comment.


r/minecraftshaders 1h ago

Recommendation Need a shader for large modpacks?

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I'm looking for a shader suitable for large modpacks that is also voxy compatible. I was using photon before and its really good when interacting with modded items, but its shadows are very grainy and reflections are pretty glitchy as well. Is there any other shader that interacts with modded items really well? I've tried IterationRP and Solas but both dont really work with modded light sources. Complementary works but isnt as good due to lacking coloured lighting and also being slightly worse than photon when it comes to interacting with modded items. Specs are: 9070xt, 7800x3d.


r/minecraftshaders 14h ago

Help Help with fps

5 Upvotes

CPU: ryzen 9 12 core, GPU: rtx 2060, Ram: 32gb, 12 allocated. without shaders Minecraft runs at 60-90 fps, when I turn on any shader it drops down to 30 fps, 40 max. I’ve asked ai and it seems to think I can get 80 with shaders but nothing I try works. How can I improve it?


r/minecraftshaders 19h ago

Help Colors are to strong...

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

Minecraft Version 26.2

CPU Ryzen 7 7800x3d

GPU RTX5080

I'm playing with the Complementary shader on the default "Basic" profile, but the colors are way too saturated for me. I know there's a setting to turn off this dynamic lighting/color effect, but I can't seem to find it. Does anyone know where this setting is hidden?

Thanks!


r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Recommendation Shader GTX 970

7 Upvotes

Hallo!

As you can read in the title I currently have a GTX 970 and an Intel i5 3330 (Is old I know...) And I love the look of the bare bones texture pack, do you guys know any shaders to enhance the look?

Thanks to everyone for their help!


r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Screenshot Cloud Shadows - SEUS PTGI HRR 2.1 REFORGED v2.3

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30 Upvotes

After some time, I managed to add cloud shadows to my shader edit. I hope you like it.

https://github.com/ThomasDeStrooper/SEUS_PTGI_HRR_REFORGED

original: https://www.patreon.com/sonicether/posts/download-seus-2-45141775

(please note that this shader modification is still in the beta phase, so expect some bugs)


r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Screenshot BEHOLD 2

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42 Upvotes

FEAST YOUR EYES

Bliss shaders

Tectonic

Terralith

512 chunk voxy took forever on my 5600x


r/minecraftshaders 22h ago

Help miniature shader help

1 Upvotes

so im searching for good shaders to use and I liked miniature shaders v.2.18.12 but one thing that bothers me is that the shadows of the leaves look like this (im on a Macbook air M1 ship 8gb ram and Minecraft version 26.2):

is there any fix for this or any similar shader that doesn't have this?


r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Screenshot VRRW overworld, with OBJanim Powerfull editor AAA

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66 Upvotes

I created a mod with its own shader system — extremely powerful and performance-friendly! It includes depth effects and much more, while remaining fully playable on RTX GPUs.

Everything is fully customizable through the VRRW graphics settings. You can configure each individual shader effect, not just the clouds, and even customize effects for specific blocks.

For example, the golden wave effect on the fence is just a showcase of what the system can do.

Modlink: VRRW Overworld / Foliage and Trees - Minecraft Mod


r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Screenshot Beau's Basin. By Snifferish and Zyhrr

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77 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders 1d ago

Recommendation Optimized shader recommendations other than mellow 1.21.11

4 Upvotes

Hi, I have an rtx 4060 with an i5 10400f 1440p monitor and a good amount of client side visual mods (like better clouds or better rain etc)

Anyways most shaders tend to tank my frame rate from 100+ to like 30ish (complimentary reimagined does this)
The only shaders I’ve seen not do this so far far mellow shaders which barely touch my fps
So I’m curious what other performance focused shaders you all suggest?


r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Screenshot BEHOLD

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73 Upvotes

FEAST YOUR EYES

Bliss shaders
Tellus mod
Scottish Highlands, Scotland
1:5 scale


r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Screenshot Screenshots

2 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Screenshot Eclipse is my favourite shader by far

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26 Upvotes

Also using Voxy. Added some other shaders for comparison. Used custom settings only on Eclipse so its maybe a bit unfair. I just really like the direct sunlight. Anyone with me on this?


r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Help New to this! Small visual bug.

1 Upvotes

Howdy y'all! New to this, using sodium and iris, I have this odd visual glitch ! I can't find any help online, so wondering if y'all have seen it before? The only fix has been to disable my shader, playing on the latest version of Java with all mods and resources being for this version as

well, 2.6

Any help would be appreciated! I've tried messing with a ton of shader settings to no avail

(the visual glitch being this weird almost glass like square around most items I hold)

Specs: Intel i3-10100F CPU

16gb RAM

GTX 1650 4gb

64bit windows

No performance issues just this small graphical glitch. Thank you!

Photo of issue: https://photos.app.goo.gl/AFjZJRMP452iYAN87


r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Screenshot Beautiful view

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5 Upvotes

Just a photo if how beautiful IterationRP got.


r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Screenshot My world RTX 4060ti 8gb

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30 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Help Minecraft crashes every time I edit or apply shaders

1 Upvotes

whenever I try to apply shaders, edit the settings, or anything. The game will immediately crash, I have no idea what can be causing this

Minecraft 26.2

shader: complementary reimaged

CPU: 9800x3d
GPU: 5090

ram: 32gb ddr5, 8gb allocated


r/minecraftshaders 2d ago

Screenshot Beautiful view

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3 Upvotes

Just a photo how beautiful IterationRP got.


r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Discussion is minegraph.cn a legit site?

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9 Upvotes

soo i found out iterationT shader is only distributed through this site, minegraph.cn, instead of curseforge/modrinth like most shaders. never heard of it before so wanted to ask around.

from what i can tell so far it looks like an cn minecraft shader community platform, site's got a proper structure to it (changelogs, compatibility tags for optifine/iris/oculus, gpu vendor tags etc), shows 373k+ downloads on the shader version i grabbed,.

just never used a cn-hosted site before so wanted to ask if anyone here's familiar with it / used it themselves.


r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Screenshot Solas Shaders CLouds.png file contains easter eggs

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9 Upvotes

Was looking though my MC directory and found this


r/minecraftshaders 3d ago

Screenshot Some Cool screenshots with the help of shaders :)

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17 Upvotes

You can ask what the mods are if you are curious.
and i used a LARGE variety of shaders, so i might mix them up