Looking for OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.12.2? MineUniverse ranks 127 of them by downloads, led by Complementary Shaders - Reimagined, Complementary Shaders - Unbound and BSL Shaders.
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.
Improves the look of vanilla MC with shadows, reflections and more. Runs on any Potato!
A shaderpack that has evolved tremendously over the years!
[DISCONTINUED] Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's oriented towards vanilla aesthetics.
Return of an old time favorite! Lightweight and Fast! Reworked and ported from enhanced default.
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!
Vanilla Minecraft with a little extra!
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!
VoidLight Cinematic
VoidLight Cinematic low minecraft shade 2.3K downloads
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. 397 downloads
E-LITE shaders (MakeUp edit)
A MakeUp - Ultra Fast shaders edit that is highly customizable, beautiful, and fast! updated Feb 17, 2025
Aurora_Lite
Based on MakeUpUltraFast, a heavily modified vanilla-style shader. 2.8K downloads
CG shaders (E-LITE and MakeUp edit)
CG - Ultra Fast shaders edit that is highly customizable, beautiful, and fast! 1K downloads
MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders and Sildur's Vibrant shaders round out the top five. Within the past 30 days, 17 of these shaders (13%) were updated for 1.12.2. The latest updates include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Altogether, these OptiFine shaders have more than 546 million downloads.
Released on September 18, 2017, Minecraft 1.12.2 has 20 more OptiFine shaders than 1.12.1 (107) and 6 more than 1.13 (121).
Overall, 80% of the 159 shaders for 1.12.2 are OptiFine shaders. If you use another shader loader, Minecraft 1.12.2 also offers shaders for Iris (126).
The most downloaded OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.12.2 on MineUniverse are Complementary Shaders - Reimagined, Complementary Shaders - Unbound, BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders and Sildur's Vibrant shaders.
There are 127 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.12.2 on MineUniverse. Within the past 30 days, 17 of these shaders (13%) were updated for 1.12.2. Together they have more than 546 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 has more: 127 shaders for Minecraft 1.12.2 support OptiFine, compared with 126 for Iris.
Yes. All 127 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.12.2 on MineUniverse are free to download.
