Minecraft 1.8.8 has 56 OptiFine shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 18.2 million downloads combined. Mellow is the most downloaded of them.
An edit of Chocapic13 focusing on semi-realism/fantasy featuring amazing lighting, lens flare and more!
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!
A PSX shader with affine texture mapping, dithering, vertex snapping and more!
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As light as light, as beautiful as painting. Make you have both high FPS and good image quality.
Enjoy beautiful lighting, soft shadows, and realistic water in Minecraft with great performance — perfect for both low-end and high-end devices.
Give your Minecraft that retro 256-color look with low-res pixelation options!
A lightweight shader that adds a realistic, warm atmosphere and soft lighting to Minecraft while maintaining the vanilla style.
This shaderpack turns your game into a retro 1980s-style CRT screen
Toonlamentry
A cartoon / anime stylized shaderpack meant to forget about themed limitations and just make the game look as cool as possible. 61 downloads
Lux V1
Lux is a high fidelity Minecraft: Java Edition shader pack based on Capt Tatsu's BSL Shaders. 234K downloads
Lux V1: BrickCraft Edition
A version of Lux V1 made in collaboration with - and in rememberance of - BrickCraft's original creator. 152 downloads
Mellow
Shaderpack with a painterly aesthetic made for people who want to actually play the game. It's easy on your eyes and on your computer! updated Sep 22, 2026
Abyss
A dark, atmospheric shader for you 644 downloads
Amber
Minecraft through fossilized amber. 274 downloads
Behind Mellow, the ranking continues with RedHat Shaders v34.3, TrueLightFX Lite, Lumina Shaders - Event Horizon and TrueLight FX.
With 56 of 73, OptiFine shaders account for 77% of all shaders for 1.8.8. OptiFine ranks first of two shader loaders for 1.8.8, ahead of Iris (55).
Recent activity: 7 OptiFine shaders (13%) got a new file for 1.8.8 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include Toonlamentry, Lux V1 and Lux V1: BrickCraft Edition. Mojang released Minecraft 1.8.8 on July 27, 2015. Against its nearest versions, 1.8.8 has 5 fewer OptiFine shaders than 1.8.7 (61) and 42 fewer than 1.8.9 (98).
By downloads, the leading OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.8.8 are Mellow, RedHat Shaders v34.3, TrueLightFX Lite, Lumina Shaders - Event Horizon and TrueLight FX.
MineUniverse currently has 56 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.8.8. Recent activity: 7 OptiFine shaders (13%) got a new file for 1.8.8 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 18.2 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: 56 shaders for Minecraft 1.8.8 support OptiFine, compared with 55 for Iris.
Yes. All 56 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.8.8 on MineUniverse are free to download.
