Looking for shaders for Minecraft 1.16.4? MineUniverse ranks 183 of them by downloads, led by Complementary Shaders - Unbound, Solas Shader and Super Duper Vanilla Shaders.
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
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
AstraLex Shaders and Potato Shader round out the top five. Within the past 30 days, 23 of these shaders (13%) were updated for 1.16.4. The latest updates include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Altogether, these shaders have more than 277 million downloads.
Released on October 29, 2020, Minecraft 1.16.4 has 8 fewer shaders than 1.16.3 (191) and 58 fewer than 1.16.5 (241). The biggest categories are Vanilla (81), Realistic (56) and Fantasy (46).
Iris has the most shaders of any shader loader for 1.16.4 (149), ahead of OptiFine (147). Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 296, more than the 183 in total.
The most downloaded shaders for Minecraft 1.16.4 on MineUniverse are Complementary Shaders - Unbound, Solas Shader, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders, AstraLex Shaders and Potato Shader.
There are 183 shaders for Minecraft 1.16.4 on MineUniverse. Within the past 30 days, 23 of these shaders (13%) were updated for 1.16.4. Together they have more than 277 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 (147). Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 296, more than the 183 in total.
Yes. All 183 shaders for Minecraft 1.16.4 on MineUniverse are free to download.
