MineUniverse lists 156 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1, ranked by total downloads. Together they have more than 359 million downloads.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
A highly customizable horror styled Minecraft shaderpack based on BSL.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
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.
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
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. updated Oct 13, 2026
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
The most downloaded Iris shaders for 1.16.1 are BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders and 🎃 Insanity Shader, followed by Solas Shader and Pastel Shaders. In the last 30 days, 24 of them (15%) received a new file for 1.16.1. Recent updates include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus.
Iris shaders make up 82% of all 190 shaders for 1.16.1. For comparison, Minecraft 1.16.1 also has shaders for OptiFine (154).
Minecraft 1.16.1 was released on June 24, 2020. Compared with nearby versions, 1.16.1 has as many Iris shaders as 1.16 (156) and 7 more than 1.16.2 (149).
Ranked by downloads on MineUniverse, the top five Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1 are BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders, 🎃 Insanity Shader, Solas Shader and Pastel Shaders.
MineUniverse lists 156 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1. In the last 30 days, 24 of them (15%) received a new file for 1.16.1. Together they have more than 359 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 1.16.1 support Iris, compared with 154 for OptiFine.
Yes. All 156 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1 on MineUniverse are free to download.
