Minecraft Java 1.18 Mods
Browse 306 free mods for Minecraft Java 1.18 — popular picks include Lumen Shaders, HTTYD.V1, Skew.
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Lumen Shaders
A highly customizable, BSL-style shader for Iris and OptiFine. Delivers gorgeous lighting, cinematic post-processing, and soft shadows optimized to be beautiful without melting your GPU.
HTTYD.V1
A HTTYD modpack with full variety of dragons, shaders and optimizations
Skew
Screen distortion shader with animated skew and subtle camera shake.
LightWeight Atmospherica
A lightweight shaderpack optimized for integrated graphics like Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3.
Nyolxel
Performant and lightweight retro-like shaders, custom made for the Nyoldarria mod, but may work in any other context.
Hearthglow Cottagecore cosy shader
Hearthglow is a cottagecore shader for Minecraft (Iris & OptiFine): warm ambient light, soft glow, pastel tones. No other shader is built specifically for the cozy aesthetic.
NPC-Shaders
A lightweight shader for Iris/Oculus and Optifine adding nice visuals.
FullBright By MamiBuba
A lightweight OptiFine texture pack that gives full brightness in caves, at night, and in every dimension — no torches or shaders needed.
Sytex Shader Sound
A shader that enhances Minecraft with beautiful, realistic lighting and a warm, immersive atmosphere.
Lucid Clarity
A lightweight, crisp Vanilla+ shader focused on clean lighting and performance.

MilkShader
Changes the graphics to a more unusual style, similar to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Refract Shaders
minecraft shader pack with high quality graphics
Depth of field Test3
Simple shader that just blurs the background
Basic Lighing
My first shader for visual improvement! It's very simple.
Adi Cinematic Shader
"Adi Cinematic Shader transforms Minecraft with ultra-smooth lag-free shadows, realistic procedural clouds, cinematic lighting, and smart-depth water. Perfect for high-quality recordings and immersive survival gameplay!"
ISKRA Shaders
A performance-friendly fork of MakeUp — Ultra Fast with a warm custom palette, reworked water, shoreline foam, rain ripples, caustics and cinematic colour grading.

SHADER_bounty
simple shaders that adds the option to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, vibrance. The shaderpack doesnt change anything else.
Better Minecraft
Makes Minecraft better with a bunch of different tweaks. Some assets require Optifine, Continuity and Polytone (optional).
DTM Shader
EPILEPSY WARNING!! its a shader, dont use unless your insane lmao
Jaimalya's Shaders
Beautifully vibrant, delightful to play with, coloured godrays, pixel-accurate shadows, w stunning stylized water, animated winds, custom weather effects and more
Prism Skies
Shaderpack with truly unique skies
Actmos
Performance-focused shader featuring fantasy and realistic effects.
AmberVeil Shaders
A fantasy-soft Iris shader pack for 1.20.1 with hand-tuned water reflections and colored light bleed through glass.
OG Shaders
OG Shaders enhances Minecraft while keeping its original spirit alive. It stays true to the OG look and feel
Cinematix Shader
A vibrant, cinematic shaderpack focused on breathtaking colors, dramatic lighting, beautiful skies, and stunning atmosphere, while keeping performance at a reasonable level
Android Optimized
A lightweight performance modpack built exclusively for Android launchers with optional shader support.
Toon Cel
Toon Cel Shader, a lightweight anime style shader for Minecraft. Bold black outlines, flat cel shading and punchy colors with almost zero FPS cost. A stylized alternative to Complementary or BSL, fully adjustable in game.
AnimeCraft(shader)
Anime cel-shading shader for Minecraft, Iris only, no OptiFine required. Lightweight, crisp outlines, cartoon look, runs on low-end PCs.
Enhanced Block Entities Reforged Mod (1.19.2, 1.18.2) – FPS Boost
Enhanced Block Entities Reforged Mod is a transformative mod that significantly enhances the performance of Minecraft by optimizing the rendering of block entities such as chests, ender chests, beds, shulker boxes, signs, and bells. This brings a remarkable improvement to FPS, making the game more enjoyable for players, especially those who use shaders. One of […]
Arc
An attempt at a mostly realistic shader that maintains decent performance; for Minecraft Java.
Pixel Reality - Luminance
Realistic(ish) light effects without shaders! Use it on top of vanilla or your chosen pack! Needs Optifine.
YoFPS
YoFPS is a Chocapic13's Shaders edit that focuses on quality and performance.
AgriCraft OptiFine Compat
Compatibility layer for Agricraft to work with shaders
Smart FPS
A collection of Client-Side FPS-Enhancing mods, with additional mods to substitute for OptiFine features that are not present with Sodium, and to provide several QOL enhancements that do not take away from the core of the game. SHADER SUPPORT.
Color Splash Shaders
Just some basic shaders that make the color splash/pop effect. A request by Fishiest
Lightspeed Performance
SHADERS, FAST WORLD GENERATION, MORE FPS