Looking for OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.4? MineUniverse ranks 147 of them by downloads, led by Solas Shader, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders and AstraLex Shaders.
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.
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
Potato Shader and Nostalgia Shader round out the top five. Within the past 30 days, 23 of these shaders (16%) were updated for 1.16.4. The latest updates include VoidLight Cinematic, Toonlamentry and Doruk's Shader Plus. Altogether, these OptiFine shaders have more than 108 million downloads.
Released on October 29, 2020, Minecraft 1.16.4 has 8 fewer OptiFine shaders than 1.16.3 (155) and 44 fewer than 1.16.5 (191).
Overall, 80% of the 183 shaders for 1.16.4 are OptiFine shaders. If you use another shader loader, Minecraft 1.16.4 also offers shaders for Iris (149).
The most downloaded OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.4 on MineUniverse are Solas Shader, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders, AstraLex Shaders, Potato Shader and Nostalgia Shader.
There are 147 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.4 on MineUniverse. Within the past 30 days, 23 of these shaders (16%) were updated for 1.16.4. Together they have more than 108 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 1.16.4 support Iris, compared with 147 for OptiFine.
Yes. All 147 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.16.4 on MineUniverse are free to download.
