Minecraft 1.9.4 has 114 shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 595 million downloads combined. Complementary Shaders - Reimagined is the most downloaded of them.
Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
Very optimized shaderpack for MC: Java edition, around since 2012! Runs on any hardware and supports every MC version since 1.7.10.
A highly customizable horror styled Minecraft shaderpack based on BSL.
An aesthetic, performant pastel-colored shaderpack with multiple color preset based on BSL.
Atmospheric, highly customizable eerie shaderpack, successor of Insanity Shader.
Improves the look of vanilla MC with shadows, reflections and more. Runs on any Potato!
A shaderpack that has evolved tremendously over the years!
[DISCONTINUED] Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's oriented towards vanilla aesthetics.
Return of an old time favorite! Lightweight and Fast! Reworked and ported from enhanced default.
An edit of Chocapic13 focusing on semi-realism/fantasy featuring amazing lighting, lens flare and more!
Vanilla Minecraft with a little extra!
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
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
Lux V1
Lux is a high fidelity Minecraft: Java Edition shader pack based on Capt Tatsu's BSL Shaders. updated Mar 16, 2025
Lux V1: BrickCraft Edition
A version of Lux V1 made in collaboration with - and in rememberance of - BrickCraft's original creator. 152 downloads
Mellow
Shaderpack with a painterly aesthetic made for people who want to actually play the game. It's easy on your eyes and on your computer! updated Sep 22, 2026
BSL Shaders
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct. updated Sep 21, 2026
Behind Complementary Shaders - Reimagined, the ranking continues with Complementary Shaders - Unbound, BSL Shaders, Sildur's Vibrant shaders and 🎃 Insanity Shader. By category, Vanilla leads with 54 shaders, followed by Fantasy (38) and Realistic (22).
Split by shader loader, the numbers for 1.9.4 are OptiFine 95 and Iris 93. Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 188, more than the 114 in total.
Recent activity: 10 shaders (9%) got a new file for 1.9.4 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include Toonlamentry, Doruk's Shader Plus and Lux V1. Mojang released Minecraft 1.9.4 on May 10, 2016. Against its nearest versions, 1.9.4 has 8 more shaders than 1.9.3 (106) and 13 more than 1.10 (101).
By downloads, the leading shaders for Minecraft 1.9.4 are Complementary Shaders - Reimagined, Complementary Shaders - Unbound, BSL Shaders, Sildur's Vibrant shaders and 🎃 Insanity Shader.
MineUniverse currently has 114 shaders for Minecraft 1.9.4. Recent activity: 10 shaders (9%) got a new file for 1.9.4 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 595 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.
OptiFine leads with 95 shaders, followed by Iris (93). Some shaders work with more than one shader loader, so these numbers add up to 188, more than the 114 in total.
Yes. All 114 shaders for Minecraft 1.9.4 on MineUniverse are free to download.
