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Glimmer Shaders

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Glimmer is a Minecraft shaderpack designed to be simple and performant whilst maintaining a physically based and natural look.
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Glimmer

Glimmer is a Minecraft shaderpack designed to be simple and performant whilst maintaining a physically based and natural look.

Features

  • 'Potato', 'Toaster', 'Integrated Graphics' and 'Dedicated Graphics' presets, designed to run on anything from your fridge to a NASA supercomputer.
  • Colored block lighting!
  • Distant Horizons & Voxy support!
  • Colorwheel support
  • 'Infinite Ocean', adding water stretching out of render distance.
  • Complete LabPBR 1.3 compliance.
  • Shadows, using either the shadow map or approximated from the lightmap.
  • Screen space reflections and refractions.
  • Procedural 2D clouds.
  • Temporal filtering to reduce noise at low sample counts.
  • Bloom

Compatibility

  • OpenGL 4.3+ - macOS is not supported, nor is the Raspberry Pi. Most modern GPUs (integrated or dedicated) should work fine.
  • Iris 1.6+, OptiFine is not supported.

Acknowledgements

Get in touch

If you have an issue with Glimmer or just want to chat, you can join my Discord server or find me in #jbritains-shaderpacks in the shaderLABS Discord server.

V1.5.2
MC 1.21, 1.20.2, 1.21.8, 1.20.5, 1.21.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.21.1, 1.21.6, 1.21.3, 1.21.7, 1.20.4, 1.20.3, 1.21.2, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11
Release 2026-02-24 Get
V1.5.1
MC 1.21, 1.20.2, 1.21.8, 1.20.5, 1.21.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.21.1, 1.21.6, 1.21.3, 1.21.7, 1.20.4, 1.20.3, 1.21.2, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11
Release 2026-01-02 Get
Glimmer-v1.5.zip
MC 1.21.2-Snapshot, 1.21, 1.21.6-snapshot, 1.20.2-Snapshot, 1.20.5-Snapshot, 1.21.1-Snapshot, 1.20.2, 1.21.8, 1.20.5, 1.21.5, 1.21.4, 1.21.5-Snapshot, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6
Release 2025-11-28 Get
V1.4.2
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.5, 1.21.8, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.7, 1.21.1, 1.21.6, 1.21.2
Release 2025-08-04 Get
V1.4
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.5, 1.21.8, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.7, 1.21.1, 1.21.6, 1.21.2
Release 2025-07-20 Get
V1.4.1
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.5, 1.21.8, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.7, 1.21.1, 1.21.6, 1.21.2
Release 2025-07-20 Get
V1.3.3
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
Release 2025-04-27 Get
v1.3.2
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
Release 2025-04-24 Get
V1.3.1
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
Release 2025-03-28 Get
V1.3 Hotfix
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
Release 2025-03-12 Get
V1.2
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
Release 2025-01-26 Get
v1.1
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
Release 2025-01-08 Get
v1.0
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
Release 2025-01-01 Get
v1.0 Release Candidate 2
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
Release 2024-12-31 Get
v1.0 Release Candidate 1
MC 1.20.2, 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.21.4, 1.20.3, 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.20.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
Release 2024-12-29 Get

Requirements & install

How to use this shader in Minecraft
Shader loader
Iris or OptiFine
Minecraft
1.21.5 – 1.21.11
Install folder
.minecraft/shaderpacks

How to install shaders

  1. Install a shader loader for your Minecraft version: Iris (with Sodium) or OptiFine.
  2. Download the shader pack .zip file (do not extract it).
  3. Put the .zip into the shaderpacks folder (.minecraft/shaderpacks).
  4. In game open Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs, select the pack and apply it.
Browse more: Iris shaders OptiFine shaders Shaders for 1.21.11 All shaders

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