Minecraft 1.12.1 has 107 OptiFine shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 210 million downloads combined. BSL Shaders is the most downloaded of them.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
Very optimized shaderpack for MC: Java edition, around since 2012! Runs on any hardware and supports every MC version since 1.7.10.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
An edit of Chocapic13 focusing on semi-realism/fantasy featuring amazing lighting, lens flare and more!
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
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!
[WIP] A Semi-Realistic Minecraft Shaderpack, with a Vibrant Visuals Style. Based on Complementary Reimagined.
A PSX shader with affine texture mapping, dithering, vertex snapping and more!
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 Apr 20, 2025
Fullbright+ Shaders
A lightweight Minecraft shader that removes darkness by providing full brightness, making caves, nights, and dim areas fully visible while … updated Sep 27, 2026
Lux V1
Lux is a high fidelity Minecraft: Java Edition shader pack based on Capt Tatsu's BSL Shaders. updated May 19, 2023
Behind BSL Shaders, the ranking continues with Sildur's Vibrant shaders, Solas Shader, Spooklementary and Mellow.
With 107 of 135, OptiFine shaders account for 79% of all shaders for 1.12.1. OptiFine ranks second of two shader loaders for 1.12.1, behind Iris (107).
Recent activity: 12 OptiFine shaders (11%) got a new file for 1.12.1 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Mojang released Minecraft 1.12.1 on August 3, 2017. Against its nearest versions, 1.12.1 has as many OptiFine shaders as 1.12 (107) and 20 fewer than 1.12.2 (127).
By downloads, the leading OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.12.1 are BSL Shaders, Sildur's Vibrant shaders, Solas Shader, Spooklementary and Mellow.
MineUniverse currently has 107 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.12.1. Recent activity: 12 OptiFine shaders (11%) got a new file for 1.12.1 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 210 million downloads.
1. Install OptiFine for your Minecraft version (optifine.net) and start it once. 2. Download the shader pack .zip (do not extract it). 3. Put the .zip into .minecraft/shaderpacks. 4. In game open Options → Video Settings → Shaders and select the pack.
OptiFine and Iris are level: 107 shaders for Minecraft 1.12.1 each.
Yes. All 107 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.12.1 on MineUniverse are free to download.
