Minecraft 1.16 has 190 shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 341 million downloads combined. BSL Shaders is the most downloaded of them.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
A highly customizable horror styled Minecraft shaderpack based on BSL.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
Atmospheric, highly customizable eerie shaderpack, successor of Insanity Shader.
A shader pack created to convey the style of the cancelled Super Duper Graphics Pack and other popular Minecraft titles.
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!
Using clever lighting techniques and powerful customization to create clean, immersive, and enjoyable visuals.
A MakeUp - Ultra Fast shaders edit that is highly customizable, beautiful, and fast!
Solas Shader
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals updated Oct 14, 2026
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. updated Oct 12, 2026
E-LITE shaders (MakeUp edit)
A MakeUp - Ultra Fast shaders edit that is highly customizable, beautiful, and fast! updated Oct 10, 2026
LumenX
Experience Minecraft realism. updated Oct 16, 2026
Behind BSL Shaders, the ranking continues with MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders, 🎃 Insanity Shader, Solas Shader and 👻 Hysteria Shaders. By category, Vanilla leads with 80 shaders, followed by Realistic (57) and Fantasy (53).
Split by shader loader, the numbers for 1.16 are Iris 156 and OptiFine 152. Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 308, more than the 190 in total.
Recent activity: 27 shaders (14%) got a new file for 1.16 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Mojang released Minecraft 1.16 on June 23, 2020. Against its nearest versions, 1.16 has 28 more shaders than 1.15.2 (162) and as many as 1.16.1 (190).
By downloads, the leading shaders for Minecraft 1.16 are BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders, 🎃 Insanity Shader, Solas Shader and 👻 Hysteria Shaders.
MineUniverse currently has 190 shaders for Minecraft 1.16. Recent activity: 27 shaders (14%) got a new file for 1.16 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 341 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 156 shaders, followed by OptiFine (152). Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 308, more than the 190 in total.
Yes. All 190 shaders for Minecraft 1.16 on MineUniverse are free to download.
