Looking for shaders for Minecraft 1.12? MineUniverse ranks 134 of them by downloads, led by BSL Shaders, 🎃 Insanity Shader and Solas Shader.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
A highly customizable horror styled Minecraft shaderpack based on BSL.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
Capturing the essence of old shaderpacks to create a stylized and modern Minecraft-look.
A shaderpack that gives Minecraft a modern visual overhaul while staying faithful to its original look.
A shaderpack that has evolved tremendously over the years!
An edit of Chocapic13 focusing on semi-realism/fantasy featuring amazing lighting, lens flare and more!
A MakeUp - Ultra Fast shaders edit that is highly customizable, beautiful, and fast!
A fantasy stylized shaderpack aiming to make Minecraft look stunning and beautiful
A very lightweight vanilla style shader with colored lights, focusing on adding nice features that go hand in hand with vanilla
A lightweight Shader for low end Hardware | inspired by Vibrant Visuals
VoidLight Cinematic
VoidLight Cinematic low minecraft shade updated Oct 13, 2026
Toonlamentry
A cartoon / anime stylized shaderpack meant to forget about themed limitations and just make the game look as cool as possible. 61 downloads
Doruk's Shader Plus
Doruk's Shader Plus is a Mellow based premium shader. 397 downloads
E-LITE shaders (MakeUp edit)
A MakeUp - Ultra Fast shaders edit that is highly customizable, beautiful, and fast! updated Apr 20, 2025
VANAKAMSMPs Shader Pack
A realistic and performance-friendly Minecraft shader pack with dynamic lighting, volumetric clouds, realistic water, cinematic skies, and … updated Oct 4, 2026
Fullbright+ Shaders
A lightweight Minecraft shader that removes darkness by providing full brightness, making caves, nights, and dim areas fully visible while … updated Sep 27, 2026
Mellow and AstraLex Shaders round out the top five. Within the past 30 days, 13 of these shaders (10%) were updated for 1.12. The latest updates include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Altogether, these shaders have more than 233 million downloads.
Released on June 2, 2017, Minecraft 1.12 has 24 more shaders than 1.11.2 (110) and 1 fewer than 1.12.1 (135). The biggest categories are Vanilla (61), Fantasy (42) and Realistic (31).
Iris has the most shaders of any shader loader for 1.12 (107), ahead of OptiFine (107). Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 214, more than the 134 in total.
The most downloaded shaders for Minecraft 1.12 on MineUniverse are BSL Shaders, 🎃 Insanity Shader, Solas Shader, Mellow and AstraLex Shaders.
There are 134 shaders for Minecraft 1.12 on MineUniverse. Within the past 30 days, 13 of these shaders (10%) were updated for 1.12. Together they have more than 233 million downloads.
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.
Iris leads with 107 shaders, followed by OptiFine (107). Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 214, more than the 134 in total.
Yes. All 134 shaders for Minecraft 1.12 on MineUniverse are free to download.
