Minecraft 1.16.2 has 148 OptiFine shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 180 million downloads combined. BSL Shaders is the most downloaded of them.
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
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.
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.
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! 1.9M downloads
LumenX
Experience Minecraft realism. 393 downloads
ToonLight
A lightweight toon-style shader for OptiFine 1.16.5 with animated water, swaying foliage, coloured torch light and warm sunsets. 2. Focused… updated Oct 7, 2026
Behind BSL Shaders, the ranking continues with Solas Shader, AstraLex Shaders, Potato Shader and Nostalgia Shader.
With 148 of 187, OptiFine shaders account for 79% of all shaders for 1.16.2. OptiFine ranks second of two shader loaders for 1.16.2, behind Iris (149).
Recent activity: 23 OptiFine shaders (16%) got a new file for 1.16.2 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Mojang released Minecraft 1.16.2 on August 11, 2020. Against its nearest versions, 1.16.2 has 6 fewer OptiFine shaders than 1.16.1 (154) and 7 fewer than 1.16.3 (155).
By downloads, the leading OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.2 are BSL Shaders, Solas Shader, AstraLex Shaders, Potato Shader and Nostalgia Shader.
MineUniverse currently has 148 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.2. Recent activity: 23 OptiFine shaders (16%) got a new file for 1.16.2 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 180 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: 149 shaders for Minecraft 1.16.2 support Iris, compared with 148 for OptiFine.
Yes. All 148 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.2 on MineUniverse are free to download.
