Cealith Shaders

Cealith Shaders is a lightweight vanilla+ shaderpack for Minecraft Java Edition, focused on beautiful lighting, natural colors, atmospheric skies, and realistic water while keeping performance in mind.

Designed to enhance Minecraft without changing its familiar visual style, Cealith adds subtle effects that make the world feel more alive without overwhelming it.

Features

• Soft dynamic shadows.
• Bright and natural lighting.
• Enhanced skies, sunrises, and sunsets.
• Darker and more atmospheric nights.
• Improved cloud shading.
• Atmospheric fog.
• Realistic translucent water with depth, reflections, sun glints, and animated waves.
• Refined colors and contrast.

Performance

Cealith is designed to provide a balance between visual quality and performance, avoiding demanding effects such as ray tracing, path tracing, volumetric clouds, POM, and heavy screen-space effects.

Three performance profiles are included:

LOW — For lower-end systems. BALANCED — Recommended for most systems. HIGH — For systems with additional GPU headroom.

Compatibility

Cealith Shaders is designed for Minecraft Java Edition 1.16.5–26.3 and shader loaders such as Iris and OptiFine.

Performance may vary depending on your hardware, resolution, render distance, resource packs, and other installed mods.