MineUniverse lists 654 Iris shaders across all Minecraft versions, ranked by total downloads. Together they have more than 818 million downloads.
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.
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
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.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
A well performing fantasy styled shaderpack with emphasis on scene variation and customization.
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.
Improves the look of vanilla MC with shadows, reflections and more. Runs on any Potato!
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!
[DISCONTINUED] Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's oriented towards vanilla aesthetics.
Solas Shader
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals updated Oct 14, 2026
Simple Shadows
A shader with some shadows! Colors! updated Oct 14, 2026
foxy shader
A realistic shader pack with comprehensive feature support, broad compatibility, and ray-traced lighting. updated Oct 14, 2026
VanillaEX
A super simple shader, designed for ultra-weak devices. updated Oct 13, 2026
VoidLight Cinematic
VoidLight Cinematic low minecraft shade updated Oct 13, 2026
Brisa Lite
A lightweight Minecraft shader with natural lighting, soft shadows, animated water, sun rays, and atmospheric night fog. updated Oct 13, 2026
The most downloaded Iris shaders are Complementary Shaders - Reimagined, Complementary Shaders - Unbound and BSL Shaders, followed by MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders and Sildur's Vibrant shaders. In the last 30 days, 160 of them (24%) received a new file. Recent updates include Solas Shader, Simple Shadows and foxy shader.
For comparison, MineUniverse also has shaders for OptiFine (460).
The versions with the most Iris shaders are 1.21.1 (464), 1.21 (455) and 1.20.1 (444).
Ranked by downloads on MineUniverse, the top five Iris shaders for Minecraft are Complementary Shaders - Reimagined, Complementary Shaders - Unbound, BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders and Sildur's Vibrant shaders.
MineUniverse lists 654 Iris shaders for Minecraft. In the last 30 days, 160 of them (24%) received a new file. Together they have more than 818 million downloads.
1. Install Iris with the Iris installer (irisshaders.dev); it sets up Fabric and Sodium for you. 2. Download the shader pack .zip (do not extract it). 3. Put the .zip into .minecraft/shaderpacks. 4. In game open Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs, select the pack and click Apply.
Iris has more: 654 shaders for Minecraft support Iris, compared with 460 for OptiFine.
Yes. All 654 Iris shaders for Minecraft on MineUniverse are free to download.
