Minecraft 1.8.7 has 60 Iris shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 202 million downloads combined. BSL Shaders is the most downloaded of them.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
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.
An edit of Chocapic13 focusing on semi-realism/fantasy featuring amazing lighting, lens flare and more!
A lightweight Shader for low end Hardware | inspired by Vibrant Visuals
A next-generation, hyper-realistic shader pack designed to push your PC to the limit with uncompromising cinematic graphics.
TrueLightFX is a custom Minecraft shader offering a wide range of customizable settings.
Pixelcraft Shaders is a Complementary Shaders edit which aims to replicate pixel art. Every screenshot is a new piece of art brought to life!
A PSX shader with affine texture mapping, dithering, vertex snapping and more!
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As light as light, as beautiful as painting. Make you have both high FPS and good image quality.
Enjoy beautiful lighting, soft shadows, and realistic water in Minecraft with great performance — perfect for both low-end and high-end devices.
A lightweight shader that adds a realistic, warm atmosphere and soft lighting to Minecraft while maintaining the vanilla style.
This shaderpack turns your game into a retro 1980s-style CRT screen
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
Lux V1
Lux is a high fidelity Minecraft: Java Edition shader pack based on Capt Tatsu's BSL Shaders. updated Sep 26, 2026
Lux V1: BrickCraft Edition
A version of Lux V1 made in collaboration with - and in rememberance of - BrickCraft's original creator. updated Sep 26, 2026
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
Abyss
A dark, atmospheric shader for you updated Sep 21, 2026
Amber
Minecraft through fossilized amber. updated Sep 21, 2026
Behind BSL Shaders, the ranking continues with 🎃 Insanity Shader, Pastel Shaders, 👻 Hysteria Shaders and Spooklementary.
With 60 of 77, Iris shaders account for 78% of all shaders for 1.8.7. Iris ranks second of two shader loaders for 1.8.7, behind OptiFine (61).
Recent activity: 7 Iris shaders (12%) got a new file for 1.8.7 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include Toonlamentry, Lux V1 and Lux V1: BrickCraft Edition. Mojang released Minecraft 1.8.7 on June 5, 2015. Against its nearest versions, 1.8.7 has 7 more Iris shaders than 1.8.6 (53) and 5 more than 1.8.8 (55).
By downloads, the leading Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.8.7 are BSL Shaders, 🎃 Insanity Shader, Pastel Shaders, 👻 Hysteria Shaders and Spooklementary.
MineUniverse currently has 60 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.8.7. Recent activity: 7 Iris shaders (12%) got a new file for 1.8.7 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 202 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.
OptiFine has more: 61 shaders for Minecraft 1.8.7 support OptiFine, compared with 60 for Iris.
Yes. All 60 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.8.7 on MineUniverse are free to download.
