MineUniverse lists 55 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.8.8, ranked by total downloads. Together they have more than 18 million downloads.
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. 61 downloads
Lux V1
Lux is a high fidelity Minecraft: Java Edition shader pack based on Capt Tatsu's BSL Shaders. 234K downloads
Lux V1: BrickCraft Edition
A version of Lux V1 made in collaboration with - and in rememberance of - BrickCraft's original creator. 152 downloads
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 644 downloads
Amber
Minecraft through fossilized amber. 274 downloads
The most downloaded Iris shaders for 1.8.8 are Mellow, RedHat Shaders v34.3 and TrueLightFX Lite, followed by Lumina Shaders - Event Horizon and TrueLight FX. In the last 30 days, 7 of them (13%) received a new file for 1.8.8. Recent updates include Toonlamentry, Lux V1 and Lux V1: BrickCraft Edition.
Iris shaders make up 75% of all 73 shaders for 1.8.8. For comparison, Minecraft 1.8.8 also has shaders for OptiFine (56).
Minecraft 1.8.8 was released on July 27, 2015. Compared with nearby versions, 1.8.8 has 5 fewer Iris shaders than 1.8.7 (60) and 38 fewer than 1.8.9 (93).
Ranked by downloads on MineUniverse, the top five Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.8.8 are Mellow, RedHat Shaders v34.3, TrueLightFX Lite, Lumina Shaders - Event Horizon and TrueLight FX.
MineUniverse lists 55 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.8.8. In the last 30 days, 7 of them (13%) received a new file for 1.8.8. Together they have more than 18 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: 56 shaders for Minecraft 1.8.8 support OptiFine, compared with 55 for Iris.
Yes. All 55 Iris shaders for Minecraft 1.8.8 on MineUniverse are free to download.
