Elysium Shaders

! Elysium Shaders

Elysium is a stylized shaderpack for the Iris shader loader.

Most packs chase photorealism and end up looking alike. Elysium takes the opposite path: a hand-tuned palette and its own lighting model for each of the three dimensions, and nothing on disk that doesn't need to be there.

! Highlights

• A Nether you can stare at — the crimson lives in the fog, lava and fire, while the lighting itself stays warm and neutral. Built to stay comfortable during long sessions.
• A living overworld — golden sunsets, lavender nights, snow-gated auroras, drifting procedural clouds.

! Features

Sky & atmosphere

• Animated procedural clouds with adjustable coverage
• Aurora borealis with configurable strength and an optional snow-only mode

Lighting & shadows

• 2048² shadow map with adjustable penumbra softness
• Screen-space ambient occlusion
• Light shafts through foliage
• Held light: your torch lights the way
• Emissive glow for lava, fire, glowstone, portals and mob eyes
• Night brightness control, exposure, warmth and optional purple-tinted shadows

Water & weather

• Rain strengthens both the wind and the fog naturally
• Dedicated underwater and lava fog profiles

Post-processing

• Bloom with configurable strength
• Distance fog and Nether fog density controls
• Subtle vignette and film grain
• Vanilla brightness slider and the Night Vision potion work natively

! Localization

The in-game settings menu is translated into 13 languages and follows the game's language automatically: English, Russian, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Italian, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese and Korean.

! Requirements & compatibility

• Minecraft 26.3 or newer with Iris fabric; works alongside Sodium
• No OptiFine support
• On GPUs with 8 GB of VRAM, a render distance of 12–14 chunks is recommended while streaming large amounts of new terrain — this is a limitation of Sodium's memory arenas, not of the shader

! License

Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: you may share and redistribute the pack in its original form with proper credit. Commercial use and distribution of modified versions are not permitted. See LICENSE.txt for the full terms.