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A lightweight shader pack designed to enhance the vanilla aesthetic.
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Builder's QOL Shaders is a shader pack made by Builderb0y. A lightweight shader pack designed to enhance the vanilla aesthetic.
It supports Minecraft 1.12 – 1.20. It has been downloaded 715,046 times on Modrinth. The last update came out on Dec 6, 2023.
Builder's QOL Shaders has had 3 releases on Modrinth since Dec 29, 2022. None of them came out in the past year. The newest is 2.11.0, released on Dec 6, 2023. It is made for Minecraft 1.12 – 1.20.3. It runs on Iris and Optifine. The download is 2.3 MB.
| Version | Released | Minecraft | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
2.11.0 | Dec 6, 2023 | 1.12 – 1.20.3 | Release |
2.10.0 | Dec 31, 2022 | 1.12 – 1.19.3 | Release |
2.9.0 | Dec 29, 2022 | 1.12 – 1.19.3 | Release |
This shader pack is very old, and is no longer actively maintained. It might break in some future version of Minecraft. It has bugs, and I am not going to be fixing them. Please do not report them to me.
FAQs:
Q: What's the difference between the main edition and the modded edition?
A: Main has the most features, but doesn't work properly for some mods that use fancy rendering techniques. Modded aims to fix this issue, by using a completely different rendering pipeline, but that pipeline doesn't allow for some of the effects that main has. Use whichever edition works best for you.
Q: Things look bad when one translucent block is in front of another one. Especially water.
A: Nothing I can do about that. Sorry.
Q: Will there ever be shadows?
A: No. Drawing the shadow map requires rendering the world twice per frame instead of just once, which will roughly half your framerate. This is an unacceptable performance loss for a pack designed to be lightweight.
Q: Does Iris support this pack?
A: As of version 1.5 of Iris and V2.10.0 of QOL, yes!
Q: Are there any config options that increase framerate?
A: Yes: Fancy Clouds and Blur are the most expensive options in this pack.
Q: I see Twilight Forest in the gallery. What is that?
A: Twilight Forest is another mod, which you can download here.
Q: The twilight forest looks broken/looks like the overworld.
A: MC 1.16 broke support for modded dimensions and neither OptiFine nor Iris has fixed that yet. Iris has now fixed it, but AFAIK OptiFine still hasn't yet. The fix requires V2.11.0 of QOL.
Written by Builderb0y. Read it with pictures on Modrinth.
Install Iris (with Sodium) or OptiFine for your Minecraft version: shaders need one of them.
Download the .zip file from Modrinth. Do not unzip it.
In Minecraft, open Options, then Video Settings, then Shader Packs, and click Open Shader Pack Folder.
Drop the .zip file into that folder, pick Builder's QOL Shaders in the list and click Done.
Shaders are heavy on the graphics card. If the game gets slow, pick a lower profile in the shader settings.
Full guide: How to install Minecraft shaders
| Resource | Downloads | Versions | Last update | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Builder's QOL Shadersthe one you looked at | 715K | 1.12 – 1.20 | Dec 6, 2023 | Free |
| Cinematic VanillaDark_PixelForge | 13K | 1.17 – 26.x | Oct 4, 2026 | Free |
 Baked Potato ShadersGenWasTaken | 40K | 1.20 – 26.x | Oct 4, 2026 | Free |
 Crumb ShadersMonkePixel | 26K | 1.20 – 26.x | Jul 28, 2026 | Free |
Not yet. The newest version it supports is Minecraft 1.20.
Yes. Builder's QOL Shaders is free to download from Modrinth.
Yes. The last update came out in the past day.
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