Minecraft 1.9 has 82 OptiFine shaders on MineUniverse, with more than 12.6 million downloads combined. RedHat Shaders v34.3 is the most downloaded of them.
An edit of Chocapic13 focusing on semi-realism/fantasy featuring amazing lighting, lens flare and more!
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.
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.
One of, if not the best performance shader without compromising on customizability and visuals.
Give your Minecraft that retro 256-color look with low-res pixelation options!
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
VANAKAMSMPs Shader Pack
A realistic and performance-friendly Minecraft shader pack with dynamic lighting, volumetric clouds, realistic water, cinematic skies, and … updated Oct 4, 2026
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
Abyss
A dark, atmospheric shader for you 644 downloads
Behind RedHat Shaders v34.3, the ranking continues with Body Camera Shader, Cursed Fog, Stracciatella Shaders and TrueLightFX Lite.
With 82 of 102, OptiFine shaders account for 80% of all shaders for 1.9. OptiFine ranks first of two shader loaders for 1.9, ahead of Iris (80).
Recent activity: 9 OptiFine shaders (11%) got a new file for 1.9 in the last 30 days. Recently updated picks include Toonlamentry, Doruk's Shader Plus and VANAKAMSMPs Shader Pack. Mojang released Minecraft 1.9 on February 29, 2016. Against its nearest versions, 1.9 has 16 fewer OptiFine shaders than 1.8.9 (98) and 4 fewer than 1.9.1 (86).
By downloads, the leading OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.9 are RedHat Shaders v34.3, Body Camera Shader, Cursed Fog, Stracciatella Shaders and TrueLightFX Lite.
MineUniverse currently has 82 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.9. Recent activity: 9 OptiFine shaders (11%) got a new file for 1.9 in the last 30 days. Together they have more than 12.6 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: 82 shaders for Minecraft 1.9 support OptiFine, compared with 80 for Iris.
Yes. All 82 OptiFine shaders for Minecraft 1.9 on MineUniverse are free to download.
