Though Minecraft is already an interesting and innovative game, have you ever desired it to seem more realistic and beautiful? If yes, you have to experiment with complementary shaders. Popular Minecraft shader pack that alters game look is this one. It gives the sky, water, lighting, and shadows a more lifelike and seamless appearance.
Working with OptiFine or Iris, complementary shaders provide several visual effects to the game. As the day changes in Minecraft, you will witness gentle shadows moving, water reflecting the sky, and sunlight shining through the trees. All of this lends your environment a more cinematic and natural quality.
Complementary Shaders look amazing and perform well on many systems, so many Minecraft users adore them. Changing the parameters will let you enjoy these shaders even if your PC is not particularly powerful. They are hence referred to be “complementary,” since they fit most systems and other resource packs also.
Complementary Shaders are easy to install. Install OptiFine or Iris first; then download the shader pack and file it in your Minecraft shaders folder. Open the game and choose one from the shaders menu.
The plugin shaders should work with these Minecraft versions: 1.21 – 1.20.6 – 1.20.5 – 1.20.4 – 1.20.3 – 1.20.2 – 1.20.1 – 1.20 – 1.19.4 – 1.19.3 – 1.19.2 – 1.19.1 – 1.19 – 1.18.2 – 1.18.1 – 1.18 – 1.17.1 – 1.17 – 1.16.5 – 1.16.4 – 1.16.3 – 1.16.2 – 1.16.1 – 1.16 – 1.15.2 – 1.15.1 – 1.15 – 1.14.4 – 1.14.3 – 1.14.2 – 1.14 – 1.13.2 – 1.13.1 – 1.13 – 1.12.2 – 1.12 – 1.11.2 – 1.11 – 1.10.2 – 1.10 – 1.9.4 – 1.9 – 1.8.9 – 1.8.8 – 1.8.6 – 1.8.1 – 1.8
Add-on shaders — Video and screenshots
Additional Shaders Shader Pack Download
- Download and install Minecraft.
- Open the Minecraft launcher and set your game profile for the version of Minecraft you want to launch. – select the “Installation” tab in the top menu, click “New Installation”, select your preferred version of Minecraft in the “Version” drop-down list and click “Create”.
- Download and install Optifine or Iris. – we recommend Iris, it is a bit more optimized;
- Open the Minecraft launcher and select the newly created Optifine or Iris profile. – if in step 3 you chose to install optifine, it will have optifine profile, if iris, it will have iris profile;
- Download the add-on shader pack from the download section below.
- Start Minecraft.
- For Optifine: Go to
Options > Video Settings > Shadersand click “Shaders Folder” to open the shaderpacks folder.
For Iris: Go toOptions > Video Settings > Shader packsand click “Open Shader Pack Folder” to open the shaderpacks folder. - Insert the downloaded add-on shader set (.zip file). step 5 to the .minecraft\shaderpacks folder you opened step 7.
- In-game, select Complementary Shaders from the list and click “Done”.
- We never modify or modify resource packs in any way. None of the resource packs, shader mods or tools you see on this site are hosted on our servers. We only use official download links provided by official authors. Therefore, they are completely safe.
- Since the links are official and we update them manually – the links may stop working with each new update. We try to update the links as fast as possible and usually we update everything on time and users don’t have any problems, but if suddenly any link stops working – let us know through comments below.
- Don’t forget to leave a comment below and vote for the pack. In this way, you will help the authors to constantly improve the project. If you want to support the author(s), be sure to check the author links right below the download links.
Java Edition:
[1.21.x – 1.7.x] Download Complementary Shaders
Download instructions: Curseforge: download starts automatically after a few seconds;
Mediafire: click the big blue button with the text “DOWNLOAD”;
Google Drive: in the top right corner you will see a small download icon (down arrow), click it and the download should start;