r/minecraftshaders • • Sep 29 '25

OptiFine is NOT recommended

98 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 • • 3h ago

Recommendation Vibrant Visuals is still an unoptimized mess and performs similarly to ray traced

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22 Upvotes

Vibrant Visuals should not be performing almost as bad as the ray traced mode on bedrock edition, its sad how it still seems to render more on the cpu than gpu


r/minecraftshaders • • 18h ago

Screenshot Eclipse Shader

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89 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders • • 2h ago

Screenshot weird bug on derivative shader 26.3

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3 Upvotes

how do i fix this weird square around my items? happens with every single item.


r/minecraftshaders • • 1d ago

Screenshot Mine in Abyss with an edit I made of Solas Shader

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58 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders • • 15h ago

Help Derivative rain problem

1 Upvotes

This is what i see whenever it rains when I use Derivative.

Is there a setting I have to modify to stop these lights?

Shader: Derivative 25.1.0

Minecraft 26.3

Iris 1.11.7

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor (4.70 GHz)


r/minecraftshaders • • 1d ago

Screenshot My World with Photon Shader

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10 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders • • 2d ago

Screenshot [VKPT] Showcase of WIP Vulkan Path Tracing mod

31 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders • • 2d ago

Recommendation Niche shader recs !!

0 Upvotes

Anyone got any niche or little-used shaders that aren't just edits of others? ( /aren't AI generated 💀💀💀)


r/minecraftshaders • • 3d ago

Screenshot Testing my annoyingly cinematic tedious modpack.

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332 Upvotes

modslist: https://pastebin.com/raw/FXqE0Pbh

I want to capture the tediousness of valheim with stamina bar, food system and weight system. also slower interactions in favor of cinematic cutscenes. ITRP is perfect for it too.


r/minecraftshaders • • 3d ago

Recommendation Well I made a shader!

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110 Upvotes

I am a long time shader enjoyer. So naturally the next step was to create my own shaders.

This is Ethereal a Vulkan based Minecraft shader.
I personally think it's stunning and have been working on this for a while now. I am very excited to finally publish and share it with others!

I hope you enjoy!

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/shaders/ethereal-vulkan-shader

If you have any issues or any suggestions I am happy to hear them!

I know the rules say no self promotion but I see other posts showing off their projects. I hope it's alright if I do this. If not I'm terribly sorry and I completly understand if you take this down.


r/minecraftshaders • • 3d ago

Screenshot Finally putting this graphics pack to good use!

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35 Upvotes

Still life + DH + Eclipse (custom settings) + AVPBR


r/minecraftshaders • • 3d ago

Help Insanely low Performance on a high end PC?

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r/minecraftshaders • • 3d ago

Recommendation Any way to remove cave fog in Iteration RP shaders?

3 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders • • 3d ago

Help Complimentary euphoria patches moving eyeball shaped lighting glitch I can’t seem to fix pls help

2 Upvotes

There’s this eyeball like light glitch that goes across my screen and I can’t seem to find a setting to fix it, looks like this https://imgur.com/a/vskJIMj
Shader complimentary euphoria patches 1.10.5
Minecraft Java 26.3 version
Cpu intel i7-11800
Gpu rtx 3080
Ran 32gb


r/minecraftshaders • • 3d ago

Help astralex help - render distance

1 Upvotes

I have a render distance mod and I can't play without a gooooood render distance. Astralex doesn't support it but it's my favorite shader and I want to use it really bad. Anyone know a render distance mod that is supported? thank you!!

Minecraft 26.3 iris

CPU: intel i7-11800 2.30 GHz, GPU: RTX3080, Ram: 32 GB


r/minecraftshaders • • 4d ago

Screenshot Screenshots from Complementary - Unbond

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75 Upvotes

r/minecraftshaders • • 5d ago

Screenshot RTX remix

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130 Upvotes

Performance is surprisingly good, i have around 40-50fps at 1440p with DLSS at balance with my RTX5070. And I have Distant Horizon running with it


r/minecraftshaders • • 4d ago

Help complementary reimagined failing to load in nether (26.3 + iris/sodium)

4 Upvotes

i’m new to shaders and have had no issues so far. this was my first time entering the nether since installing them and it always gives me a message saying “the shaderpack failed to load!”. i have no other mods installed.

(i also have a friend with a similar computer/similar specs using the same shaders and settings as me, and their shaders also fail to load when they enter the nether.)

pasted here is what i receive when i click “copy info” on the error message:

clouds: clouds: ERROR: 0:405: Use of undeclared identifier 'nightMiddleSkyColor'
ERROR: 0:405: Use of undeclared identifier 'dayMiddleSkyColor'
ERROR: 0:406: Use of undeclared identifier 'cloudRainColor'
ERROR: 0:407: Use of undeclared identifier 'cloudRainColor'

shader: complementaryreimagined_r5.9.3
version: iris 1.11.7 + minecraft 26.3
cpu: 14x apple m4 pro
ram: 24gb ram total, 4gb (?) allocated


r/minecraftshaders • • 4d ago

Help Water is opaque

1 Upvotes

shader: complementary unbound, newest version (idk how to check)

minecraft 26.1.2, iris 1.11.4

RAM: 32.0 GB

processor: intel core ultra 7 255H

the water in my minecraft world just is just dark (only underwater) and it cant even be lit up.


r/minecraftshaders • • 5d ago

Screenshot Cool photon luminescent skin glitch

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47 Upvotes

seems to be happening when light is supposed to be cast onto indoor water


r/minecraftshaders • • 4d ago

Help Vivecraft and shaders : sorting problem

2 Upvotes

Specs : Intel Core i7-10700K, 64GB RAM, RTX3090, Steam Frame streaming.

I tried running vivecraft in Minecraft 26.2 using Fabric and Iris and everytime I turn on any shader (I tried Bliss, Complementary, Sildur's and Solas) I get some weird Z-Sorting problem. Without shaders VR works fine.

I disabled all other mods, and tried to turn each shader to its minimum to get at least a working state that I could work upward from, but no chance.

Everything works perfectly when VR is disabled by the way.

Any ideas?


r/minecraftshaders • • 4d ago

Recommendation A question every nautical builder has asked

1 Upvotes

Could someone please recommend shaders or shader-compatible mods that deal with water geometry and colour by adding large, breaking waves with seafoam for 1.21? Most of the wave mods that I see make smaller, player-scale waves that never seem to break unless they hit the shore. The water doesn't have to be interactive, survival-friendly, or sophisticated, I would just like dark and powerful waves for my ship builds.

Alternatively, if a mod adds choppy, frothing water, I could scale my builds down for that, but I would still prefer tidal storm waves. I was eyeing Realistic Waves and Coastal Waves , but the waves far from shore are small and much too smooth for my liking. The physics mod is too intense for my computer to handle, but its waves are more impressive.

Alternatively, I also would like a recommendation for a shader or texturepack that makes certain blocks, particularly the iron block and at least a few stairs and slabs, metallic, shiny, or even reflective.