Poggy's Luminous Dreams uses Render Dragon Engine for realistic lighting effects. Harmony Voxel offers fantasy-realistic blend with dynamic shadows and atmosphere. Newb Shader provides lightweight improvements with customizable lighting. Universal Pack Shader optimizes vanilla visuals with three color modes. DGR Shader targets low-end devices with minimum 1GB RAM
Rethinking Voxels adds block-colored lights and ray-traced shadows. Sildur's Shaders enables realistic lighting without ray tracing. BSL offers extensive customization with volumetric lighting and dynamic liquids. Naelego's Cel adds cartoonish outlines without affecting performance. Insanity Shaders creates dark haze and reduces light sources
Minecraft Bedrock offers shader support for better visuals on non-PC platforms. Shaders enhance lighting, animations, and visuals similar to Ray Tracing. Java Edition has better shader support than Bedrock Edition
Shaders may not show up due to missing OptiFine or incompatible Minecraft version. OptiFine is a safe mod that enables support for other shaders. Shaders must be installed in .minecraft/shaderpacks folder
Builder's QOL improves FPS with custom water and dynamic trees. Potato Shaders offers smooth textures and improved animations. Waving Plants adds realistic grass and leaf animations. Chocapic13 Lite provides new water textures without performance impact. MakeUp Shaders adds reflection and motion blur effects
Shaders require only Optifine installation in Minecraft. Most shaders improve graphics while maintaining FPS