Looking for OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16? MineUniverse ranks 152 of them by downloads, led by BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders and Solas Shader.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
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.
An edit of Chocapic13 focusing on semi-realism/fantasy featuring amazing lighting, lens flare and more!
Using clever lighting techniques and powerful customization to create clean, immersive, and enjoyable visuals.
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.
Solas Shader
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals updated Oct 14, 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. 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 Oct 10, 2026
LumenX
Experience Minecraft realism. updated Oct 16, 2026
Super Duper Vanilla Shaders and Mellow round out the top five. Within the past 30 days, 27 of these shaders (18%) were updated for 1.16. The latest updates include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Altogether, these OptiFine shaders have more than 267 million downloads.
Released on June 23, 2020, Minecraft 1.16 has 18 more OptiFine shaders than 1.15.2 (134) and 2 fewer than 1.16.1 (154).
Overall, 80% of the 190 shaders for 1.16 are OptiFine shaders. If you use another shader loader, Minecraft 1.16 also offers shaders for Iris (156).
The most downloaded OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16 on MineUniverse are BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders, Solas Shader, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders and Mellow.
There are 152 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16 on MineUniverse. Within the past 30 days, 27 of these shaders (18%) were updated for 1.16. Together they have more than 267 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.
Iris has more: 156 shaders for Minecraft 1.16 support Iris, compared with 152 for OptiFine.
Yes. All 152 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16 on MineUniverse are free to download.
