Minecraft 1.21 has 455 Iris shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 792 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.
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.
[DISCONTINUED] Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's oriented towards vanilla aesthetics.
An edit of Chocapic13 focusing on semi-realism/fantasy featuring amazing lighting, lens flare and more!
Solas Shader
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals 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 17, 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
Haste Shaders
An incredibly lightweight shader made to run on the most low-end laptops. updated Oct 12, 2026
Behind Complementary Shaders - Reimagined, the ranking continues with Complementary Shaders - Unbound, BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders and Sildur's Vibrant shaders.
With 455 of 511, Iris shaders account for 89% of all shaders for 1.21. Iris ranks first of two shader loaders for 1.21, ahead of OptiFine (358).
Recent activity: 96 Iris shaders (21%) got a new file for 1.21 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include Solas Shader, foxy shader and VanillaEX. Mojang released Minecraft 1.21 on June 13, 2024. Against its nearest versions, 1.21 has 52 more Iris shaders than 1.20.6 (403) and 9 fewer than 1.21.1 (464).
By downloads, the leading Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.21 are Complementary Shaders - Reimagined, Complementary Shaders - Unbound, BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders and Sildur's Vibrant shaders.
MineUniverse currently has 455 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.21. Recent activity: 96 Iris shaders (21%) got a new file for 1.21 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 792 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: 455 shaders for Minecraft 1.21 support Iris, compared with 358 for OptiFine.
Yes. All 455 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.21 on MineUniverse are free to download.
