Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 62 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Iris Shaders, Enchantment Glint Outline, Motschen's Puddles.
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Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
Enchantment Glint Outline
Adds a customisable outline to enchanted items. Works with resource packs and vanilla shaders. Sodium compatible
Motschen's Puddles
Adds puddles that spawn during rain and thunder! Compatible with any shader pack!
Interactive Foliage
Plants physically react to players, mobs and items — no shaders required.
Beryl
Introducing an efficient shader pipeline for Vulkan.
Photonics: A raytracing engine
A ray-traced voxel engine with a focus on performance and crisp shadows
Custom Glint
Allows you to change your armor/tools enchant glint live to anything, Allows for custom textures + end gateway shader effect and old enchant glint style toggle as well as enchant bloom works with vulkan mod
Radiance (Windows)
Radiance is rebuilt of Minecraft OpenGL on a Vulkan C++ backend, featuring native Hardware Ray Tracing. Break free from OpenGL limits for Minecraft on Windows.
LIMBO Dimension Datapack
Adds a dimension that is inspired by the game LIMBO, can be accessed in survival and offers a unique survival experience, and special loot. For best immersion, turn off shaders and set the render distance lower so the fog is all around you.
Iris Extension
An extension for the Minecraft shader loader Iris with some useful features for shader developers.
WynnIris
An Iris fork with built-in Wynncraft shader effects. Renders glint effects, custom skyboxes, translucency, and player emotes directly in the shader pipeline.
Shadered
A mod that adds complex visual decorations
DynamicLantern
A Curios decorative lantern that requires no dynamic lighting dependency and no extra libraries — it only needs Curios and shaders to emit light.
Vulkanite
A mod that brings hardware accelerated raytracing to minecraft java edition
EntityModelShadersFix
Occulus ETM+EMF Fixes, fixes missing parts of ResourcePacks when using all three.
lumaLight
Colorful client-side lighting, outlines, bloom, and a biome-aware cartoon atmosphere without shader packs.
Vulkan PostFX
Experimental VPFX shader pack loader and post-processing framework for Minecraft’s modern Vulkan-based rendering path.
Kairo's Color Filters
NVIDIA-style color filters inside Minecraft, with presets. Control vibrance, saturation, contrast, sharpness and more, works with all shaderpacks and resource packs!
Void Cubes
Adds decorative blocks featuring the end portal shader effect
VulkanFlow
VulkanFlow brings bloom, shadows and shader like effects to Minecraft highly optimized for integrated GPUs and low end devicec. Achieve stable 60 FPS on hardware like Intel UHD 620, fully compatible with Sodium.
Oculus Unlocked
Allows mod shaders to work while Oculus has an active shaderpack
Biome Shader Switch
🗸 Switches shaders based on the player's current biome. Supports Iris & Oculus shader packs with per-biome, per-height, and fallback shader rules. Auto-detects all biomes including modded ones — zero manual config needed.
Shader Cycler
Add-on to oculus/iris to switch between shaders automatically when entering dimensions (including modded ones) or with just a key-bind
The Forgotten Man
A hand-built DELTARUNE Chapter 5 dimension you reach through a craftable door. The tree room, the man behind the tree, and a shader based portal you can see through.
Radiance (Linux)
Radiance is rebuilt of Minecraft OpenGL on a Vulkan C++ backend, featuring native Hardware Ray Tracing. Break free from OpenGL limits for Minecraft on Linux.
Entity Dithering
Adds bedrock-like transparency effect to entities. Compatible with any shaders!
Shader Patcher
Attempts to patch any Iris/Optifine shaderpack to add mod support
Ultra Secret Settings
Client side mod that brings back Super Secret Settings with more shaders
Block Dithering
Adds dithered transparency effect to blocks. Compatible with any shaders and resource packs! ✨
Ferium
Shaders Vibrant Visuals like
WindLink
Adds a realistic wind engine that is terrain aware for shaders to respond to.
Shaders
A client-side Fabric mod that adds customizable animated rainbow and gradient outline effects to Minecraft entities, players, and held items for visual customization.
Iris Caves
Makes Alex's Caves work with your shaders — biome fog, the Luxtructosaurus red sky, Deepsight, and fixes for its invisible mobs and projectiles.
Universal Depth of Field
Native DoF - no shaders required.
Particle Dithering
Adds dithered transparency effect to particles. Compatible with any shaders!
JFlashlight
Illuminate your world with a toggleable, photon-forked shader-powered flashlight. Creates a directional beam with 16 colors, volumetric dust, and multiplayer support.