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Escheridia

Stylized fantasy shader designed to revitalize your mc world (very work in progress)

ShadersFree1.20 – 1.21
by QuirkyPlague · listed from Modrinth
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What it does

Stylized fantasy shader designed to revitalize your mc world (very work in progress)

Escheridia is a shader pack made by QuirkyPlague. It supports Minecraft 1.20 – 1.21. It has been downloaded 137,206 times on Modrinth. The last update came out on Mar 15, 2026.

Supported versions

1.211.20

Release history

Escheridia has had 25 releases on Modrinth since Feb 8, 2025. 4 of them came out in the past year. The newest is 4.1, released on Mar 15, 2026. It is made for Minecraft 1.21 – 1.21.11. It runs on Iris. The download is 8.3 MB.

VersionReleasedMinecraftType
4.1Mar 15, 20261.21 – 1.21.11Release
4.0Feb 7, 20261.21 – 1.21.11Release
3.0.1Jan 4, 20261.21 – 1.21.11Release
3.0.0Jan 4, 20261.21 – 1.21.11Release
2.4.0Aug 25, 20251.20 – 1.21.8Release

Latest release on GitHub

Escheridia is open source. Its newest release on GitHub is Escheridia V4.1, published on Mar 15, 2026.

Another month another update. I've been cooking up some big changes so be ready because I have a lot to share!

---General---

  • Added sky color control to the settings menu
  • Fixed incorrect pack name in the settings
  • Added dithering to reduce banding
  • Reduced color precision for potential performance gains for lower end hardware
  • Added per-effect reprojection for improved denoising (currently has a lot of ghosting)
  • Fixed various gamma encoding issues
  • Added SSAO

---Lighting---

  • Adjusted sun and skylight color intensities to be less intensely bright
  • Entities now are separately lit, resolving various transparency related issues with players and translucent entities.
  • Improved nighttime lighting
  • Added Voxel Floodfill lighting
  • Tweaked general blocklight distribution
  • This means we now have separately colored blocklight!
  • Improved lighting during rain events

---Atmosphere---

  • Reduced quality of clouds and fog for hopeful performance gains
  • Adjusted fog density distribution
  • Increased default min/max height
  • Reduced density for random fog plumes
  • Increased static density
  • Adjusted weather fog
  • Weather fog now increases max fog height

Read all release notes on GitHub

Before that: Escheridia V4.0 (Feb 7, 2026), Escheridia V3 RC1 (Dec 19, 2025).

Description from the author on Modrinth

Esheridia is a semi-realistic shaderpack that aims to add a touch of natural realism to the vanilla visual style. IRIS REQUIRED & MAC NOT SUPPORTED
It provides:

  • Realtime shadow maps
  • Custom sky
  • Atmospheric border fog
  • Custom Weather effects
  • LabPBR Resourcepack support
  • Advanced Volumetric Lighting
  • Screenspace Reflections
  • Custom water lighting
  • Bloom
  • Volumetric clouds

If you encounter any bugs, want development updates, or just want to chat, join the discord here
NOTE Majority of images are taken using the Patrix resource pack.

IMAGES BELOW

Written by QuirkyPlague. Read it with pictures on Modrinth.

How to install Escheridia

  1. Install Iris (with Sodium) or OptiFine for your Minecraft version: shaders need one of them.

  2. Download the .zip file from Modrinth. Do not unzip it.

  3. In Minecraft, open Options, then Video Settings, then Shader Packs, and click Open Shader Pack Folder.

  4. Drop the .zip file into that folder, pick Escheridia in the list and click Done.

  5. Shaders are heavy on the graphics card. If the game gets slow, pick a lower profile in the shader settings.

Compatibility

Minecraft versions
1.21, 1.20
Edition
Java
Needs
Nothing else
License
GPL
Price
Free
Upkeep
Actively updated (Nov 10, 2026)

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Questions

Does Escheridia work on Minecraft 26.x?

Not yet. The newest version it supports is Minecraft 1.21.

Is Escheridia free?

Yes. Escheridia is free to download from Modrinth.

Is Escheridia still updated?

Yes. The last update came out in the past day.

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