That Minecraft it doesn’t have to look pocho, leñe. To begin with, in this house we believe that the cubic roll suits you very well and has its charm, but anyway, realize that it is a game with wonderful flexibility in all aspects. Not only can you put mods of all kinds to reinvent the experience …
There are a myriad of packs of shaders with which to powerfully change the visual appearance of your game. These programs inject all kinds of processing techniques on Minecraft to change the style or improve the effects without overloading your graphics card (although there is everything). Today we tell you how to install them and which are the most attractive.
Learn how to install shaders in Minecraft
To make all your dreams come true, the very first thing you should do is install two mods, Optifine and Forge, which are used to load both mods and shaders. Although there is a third, Sodium, with which the shaders they seem to pull better, not fully compatible with Forge, and we don’t like that very much because this second one is essential to install many other mods.
- Enter Forge and Optifine and download the latest versions, compatible with your own version of Minecraft
- Install first Forge
- Copy the Optifine .jar file in the Mods folder, inside “c: Users [usuario] AppData Roaming .minecraft “
These are the best shader packs
SEUS (Sonic Ether’s Unbelievable Shaders)
This pack is one of the most powerful you can find for Minecraft. It changes the experience so much that you’ll feel like you’ve installed the RTX version of the game. SEUS will convert your game completely, renewing lighting, adding reflections, procedurally generating clouds and, effectively, producing an artificial ray tracing effect.
Download | SEUS
BSL Shaders
Another pack of acronyms shaders! And above this is another beautiful one, with depth of field effects, sublime lights and shadows, sinuous reflections in the water, cotton clouds … you’ll feel like you’ve gone to a Minecraft second batch. If you can even force the curvature of the world to feel like you are on earth!
Above, despite everything it offers, it does not tax your team as much as SEUS or Sildur, so you can keep your frame rate per second very high.
Download | BSL Shaders
Complementary Shaders
This package acts as a branch of the previous one, but in this case it is developed to be tremendously compatible with any mod you can think of, from textures to crazy things of all kinds. Plus, it’s highly customizable and it works like a charm with any team, however low-end it may be.
Download | Complementary Shaders
Continuum Shaders
These others come from the Sistine Chapel (an older package), but now it’s the go-to mod when it comes to photorealism. What will attract your attention the most is the lighting, with chromatic gradients that cover the entire sky, clouds like the real ones and shadows that change according to the sunlight position and the moon.
In this case, we are already talking about a demanding pack as far as equipment is concerned. It’s worth it, so you might be happy to know that there is one lite version for when your components fall short.
Download | Continuum
Lagless shader
We lowered the potentiometer of the technical requirements a bit to propose a mod that, as its name suggests, gives priority to fluid play. Lagless It is a more technically simple package, but great for the results it achieves.
It offers brighter colors and more complex textures compared to the default graphics. It is particularly beautiful because of the way the light is projected on the horizon when it gets dark …
Download | Lagless
Ocean Shaders
As you might expect, Oceano is a bundle of shaders that improves the appearance of all bodies of water, and especially the big ones. In fact, we believe that where it stands out the most is in the lakes, seas and oceans, because the – let’s say – puddles are a bit strange.
For visual purposes, looks like a cross between Continuum and SEUS, but when push comes to shove, it achieves its own aesthetic proposal centered on the waters.
Download | Ocean
KUDA Shaders
What Dedelner’s proposal seeks is to renovate everything that touches and stops touching the light. That is, rethink the lighting system, add new shadows and some beautiful godrays that allow any scene in your world to Minecraft become a bucolic and ravishingly beautiful landscape. The best thing about this mod is that it manages to subtly transition between the realistic and the cartoonish and vanilla colorful.
Download | KUDA
projectLUMA Shaders
This package is a direct successor to the previous one, but in this case its objective is to offer the best visual experience while respect your performance. It is a bit what all projects are looking for, but in this case the results are directly excellent.
So you have an idea, projectLUMA not looking for fluffy clouds, but directly throwing photorealistic skies at you, lighting options that fill your screen with life and color. If you’re just starting out on shaders, give it some time. It may not be so beautiful once you start digging, but on the surface it is exquisite.
Download | ProjectLUMA
Nostalgia Shader Pack
We find ourselves again with a light and subtle mod that substantially improves our visual experience. Nostalgia effectively seeks to bring us back to early 2010s with a pack of shaders reminiscent of what was in style then: Seus v08, Chocapic v3, etc. Of course, it is also allowed to add effects such as volumetric fog or wind effects on the foliage.
Download | Nostalgia
Naelego’s Cel Shaders
If your thing is the cartoon roll or you are fed up or fed up with the realistic mods, surely the Cel Shaders by Naelego. And little joke! It is an expert job that completely modifies the appearance with a series of very simple but effective effects: vivid colors and fat lines. Of course, unfortunately optimization is a delicate issue and we do not recommend that you fly in Creative mode.
Download | Cel shaders
Sildur’s Vibrant Shaders
This is one of the most popular packages currently, and with all the sense. Apart from their visual excellence, shaders from Sildur They are among the most flexible and customizable that exist. It is true that all the mods that we have been seeing are charismatic or powerful in their own way, but the best thing about this package is how much it encourages getting into the options and changing everything to adapt the world to our liking.
It offers six versions that will adapt to your visual requirements, from Lite to Extreme, so in this case we can recommend it without reservation to anyone. Minecraft gamer worth it.
Download | Sildur
Ebin Shaders
EBIN is directly inspired by SEUS, but as soon as you install it you realize how little it has to do with the Sonic Ether package. What we like best about this visual mod is how outrageously beautiful the clouds and plant foliage look. However, everything in general acquires a much more refined level … at the cost of loading your work graph.
Download @ Ebin
Werrus
This figure is usually the package that attracts the most attention due to its shadows, but what will end up captivating you are the “water effects”. The way it colors its liquid substance, the gentle waves, and the alluring sense of depth it offers are hard to beat. In addition to working like a charm on many PCs, we recommend it for the beautiful night scenes that you will find.
Download | Werrus
TME Shaders
TME stands for “Too Many Effects“As you can expect, this is completely true, and if you have a modest computer, better not read any more. It is literally a package that accumulates large and juicy visual effects that will turn your game into an interesting visual experience. Take a good look at the reflections and the surfaces that it boasts, which are the best of the list.
Download | TME