Looking for Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.16? MineUniverse ranks 156 of them by downloads, led by BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders and Solas Shader.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
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.
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
A very lightweight vanilla style shader with colored lights, focusing on adding nice features that go hand in hand with vanilla
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. 61 downloads
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
MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight. updated Oct 4, 2026
👻 Hysteria Shaders and Super Duper Vanilla Shaders round out the top five. Within the past 30 days, 25 of these shaders (16%) were updated for 1.16. The latest updates include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Altogether, these Iris shaders have more than 287 million downloads.
Released on June 23, 2020, Minecraft 1.16 has 27 more Iris shaders than 1.15.2 (129) and as many as 1.16.1 (156).
Overall, 82% of the 190 shaders for 1.16 are Iris shaders. If you use another shader loader, Minecraft 1.16 also offers shaders for OptiFine (152).
The most downloaded Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.16 on MineUniverse are BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders, Solas Shader, 👻 Hysteria Shaders and Super Duper Vanilla Shaders.
There are 156 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.16 on MineUniverse. Within the past 30 days, 25 of these shaders (16%) were updated for 1.16. Together they have more than 287 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: 156 shaders for Minecraft 1.16 support Iris, compared with 152 for OptiFine.
Yes. All 156 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.16 on MineUniverse are free to download.
