Minecraft 1.16.2 has 187 shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 367 million downloads combined. Complementary Shaders - Unbound is the most downloaded of them.
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
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!
Retro stylized shader that brings artifacts from CRT and VCR / VHS
VoidLight Cinematic
VoidLight Cinematic low minecraft shade 2.3K downloads
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! 1.9M downloads
LumenX
Experience Minecraft realism. 393 downloads
ToonLight
A lightweight toon-style shader for OptiFine 1.16.5 with animated water, swaying foliage, coloured torch light and warm sunsets. 2. Focused… updated Oct 7, 2026
Behind Complementary Shaders - Unbound, the ranking continues with BSL Shaders, Solas Shader, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders and AstraLex Shaders. By category, Vanilla leads with 83 shaders, followed by Realistic (56) and Fantasy (48).
Split by shader loader, the numbers for 1.16.2 are Iris 149 and OptiFine 148. Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 297, more than the 187 in total.
Recent activity: 23 shaders (12%) got a new file for 1.16.2 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Mojang released Minecraft 1.16.2 on August 11, 2020. Against its nearest versions, 1.16.2 has 3 fewer shaders than 1.16.1 (190) and 4 fewer than 1.16.3 (191).
By downloads, the leading shaders for Minecraft 1.16.2 are Complementary Shaders - Unbound, BSL Shaders, Solas Shader, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders and AstraLex Shaders.
MineUniverse currently has 187 shaders for Minecraft 1.16.2. Recent activity: 23 shaders (12%) got a new file for 1.16.2 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 367 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 149 shaders, followed by OptiFine (148). Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 297, more than the 187 in total.
Yes. All 187 shaders for Minecraft 1.16.2 on MineUniverse are free to download.
