Minecraft 1.16.1 has 154 OptiFine shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 357 million downloads combined. BSL Shaders is the most downloaded of them.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
A highly customizable horror styled Minecraft shaderpack based on BSL.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
An aesthetic, performant pastel-colored shaderpack with multiple color preset based on BSL.
Atmospheric, highly customizable eerie shaderpack, successor of Insanity Shader.
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
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. updated Oct 13, 2026
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
Behind BSL Shaders, the ranking continues with MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders, 🎃 Insanity Shader, Solas Shader and Pastel Shaders.
With 154 of 190, OptiFine shaders account for 81% of all shaders for 1.16.1. OptiFine ranks second of two shader loaders for 1.16.1, behind Iris (156).
Recent activity: 26 OptiFine shaders (17%) got a new file for 1.16.1 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Mojang released Minecraft 1.16.1 on June 24, 2020. Against its nearest versions, 1.16.1 has 2 more OptiFine shaders than 1.16 (152) and 6 more than 1.16.2 (148).
By downloads, the leading OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1 are BSL Shaders, MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders, 🎃 Insanity Shader, Solas Shader and Pastel Shaders.
MineUniverse currently has 154 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1. Recent activity: 26 OptiFine shaders (17%) got a new file for 1.16.1 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 357 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 1.16.1 support Iris, compared with 154 for OptiFine.
Yes. All 154 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.1 on MineUniverse are free to download.
