MineUniverse lists 190 shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1, ranked by total downloads. Together they have more than 523 million downloads.
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
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
An aesthetic, performant pastel-colored shaderpack with multiple color preset based on BSL.
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. updated Oct 13, 2026
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
The most downloaded shaders for 1.16.1 are Complementary Shaders - Unbound, BSL Shaders and MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders, followed by 🎃 Insanity Shader and Solas Shader. In the last 30 days, 26 of them (14%) received a new file for 1.16.1. Recent updates include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus.
By shader loader, Iris leads with 156 shaders for 1.16.1, followed by OptiFine (154). Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 310, more than the 190 in total.
Minecraft 1.16.1 was released on June 24, 2020. Compared with nearby versions, 1.16.1 has as many shaders as 1.16 (190) and 3 more than 1.16.2 (187). Popular categories for 1.16.1 include Vanilla (80), Realistic (56) and Fantasy (54).
Ranked by downloads on MineUniverse, the top five shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1 are Complementary Shaders - Unbound, BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders, 🎃 Insanity Shader and Solas Shader.
MineUniverse lists 190 shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1. In the last 30 days, 26 of them (14%) received a new file for 1.16.1. Together they have more than 523 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 (154). Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 310, more than the 190 in total.
Yes. All 190 shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1 on MineUniverse are free to download.
