LD Shaders

Bring your Minecraft world to life.

LD Shaders is a feature-rich shaderpack designed to transform the atmosphere of Minecraft with beautiful lighting, realistic environments, dynamic weather, and stunning dimension-specific visuals.

From breathtaking sunsets and detailed volumetric clouds to animated water and a completely reimagined End, LD Shaders aims to make every dimension feel more alive.

Features

Lighting & Shadows

• Dynamic coloured block lighting from torches, lanterns, lava, sea lanterns, redstone, and more.
• Handheld lighting.
• Soft, contact-hardening shadows.
• Ambient Occlusion (SSAO).
• Volumetric light shafts and god rays.
• Waving foliage affected by wind.

Sky & Atmosphere

• Custom procedural sky with beautiful sunrises and sunsets.
• Volumetric clouds with realistic lighting and self-shadowing.
• Multiple cloud layers, including Cumulus, Stratus, and Cirrus.
• Custom stars and a subtle Milky Way.
• Animated auroras.
• Atmospheric fog and weather effects.
• Dynamic cloud movement and wind.

Water

• Animated, detailed water with patchy waves.
• Screen-space reflections (SSR).
• Realistic water refraction and absorption.
• Underwater light shafts.
• Animated caustics.
• Rain ripples.
• Shoreline foam and sun glints.

The Nether

The Nether gets its own atmospheric makeover:

• Biome-specific coloured lava haze.
• Drifting smoke and rising embers.
• Flickering molten ambient lighting.
• Lava glow that illuminates nearby surroundings.
• Different atmospheric colours for each Nether biome.

The End

Explore a completely reimagined End dimension:

• Custom cosmic sky.
• Warped nebula and Milky Way.
• Multiple layers of colourful, twinkling stars.
• Teal and violet aurora ribbons.
• A massive swirling cosmic vortex with an accretion ring.
• Vortex lighting that illuminates the End islands.
• Atmospheric void mist beneath the islands.

Post Processing

• Bloom and glowing highlights.
• ACES tonemapping.
• FXAA anti-aliasing.
• Adjustable exposure, saturation, and contrast.
• Customisable vignette.

Customisation

LD Shaders includes plenty of options to customise your experience.

Shader settings are organised into categories:

• Lighting & Shadows
• Sky & Atmosphere
• Nether & End
• Water
• Post Processing
• Performance

Adjust cloud quality, shadow resolution, water appearance, lighting strength, atmospheric effects, and much more to find your preferred look.

Performance

LD Shaders includes multiple quality and performance options to suit different systems.

Available presets:

• Performance
• Balanced
• Quality
• Ultra

For better performance, try:

• Lowering Shadow Quality.
• Disabling Ambient Occlusion.
• Disabling Water Reflections.
• Lowering Cloud Quality.

Requirements & Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• Fabric
• Iris Shaders

Note: Coloured block lighting requires OpenGL 4.3 and Iris support for SSBOs and compute shaders.

Credits

Some water features, including wave patterns, caustics, rain ripples, and water absorption, are adapted from Eclipse Shader, which builds upon work from Bliss by Xonk and Chocapic13.

Rain ripple ring techniques are based on work by Zavie / Ctrl-Alt-Test.

Huge thanks to the original creators for their work and contributions to the shader community!

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Enjoy the view.

If you enjoy LD Shaders, consider leaving a rating or sharing some screenshots of your worlds!

(Contact me at ldshaders123@gmail.com)