Solas ShaderShaders · 1.12 – 26.xA modern fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and stunning visuals
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A good-performing, dreamy, stylized shader pack with colored lighting and fancy visuals.
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DreamLight Shaders is a shader pack made by HoneyStudios. A good-performing, dreamy, stylized shader pack with colored lighting and fancy visuals.
It supports Minecraft 1.18 – 26.x. It has been downloaded 134,086 times on Modrinth. The last update came out on Aug 9, 2026.
DreamLight Shaders has had 6 releases on Modrinth since Oct 31, 2025. 4 of them came out in the past year. The newest is 1.5, released on Aug 9, 2026. It is made for Minecraft 1.18 – 26.2. It runs on Iris and Optifine. The download is 1.1 MB.
| Version | Released | Minecraft | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
1.5 | Aug 9, 2026 | 1.18 – 26.2 | Release |
v1.4 | Mar 9, 2026 | 1.21.11 | Release |
v1.3 | Jan 19, 2026 | 1.21.11 | Release |
v1.2 | Dec 4, 2025 | 1.21.10 | Release |
v1.1 | Nov 3, 2025 | 1.21 – 1.21.10 | Release |
ABOUT
DreamLight Shaders is a fantasy-inspired, dreamy shader pack designed to bring soft, cinematic lighting and vibrant color tones to Minecraft. Built for both beauty and performance, it transforms your world with warm sunsets, glowing reflections, smooth water, and enhanced skies, all while keeping gameplay fluid and immersive.
🌙 Features
● Dynamic lighting with realistic sunrises and sunsets
● Smooth reflections and gentle water waves
● Shoreline foam and underwater caustics
● Enhanced skies and soft clouds for a dreamy look
● Colored global illumination that enhances atmosphere
● Balanced brightness and shadows for natural scenes
● Optimized performance for mid to high-end systems
● Cinematic tone mapping for screenshots and videos
● Depth of Field for cinematic shots
● Glowing nights with subtle ambient lighting
● Four color schemes, including the new Ethereal preset
● Three ready-made presets: Fast, Fancy and Fabulous
● Distant Horizons support
INSTALLATION
Download and install OptiFine or Iris
Download the shaderpack
Put the shaderpack inside .minecraft\shaderpacks
Launch Minecraft
Open Options, Video Settings, Shaders
Choose DreamLight Shaders
DreamLight Shaders is based on code from Mellow Shader by TheCMK, used under the MIT License. Huge thanks to TheCMK for the original creative base and inspiration, go check out Mellow and give it some love.
Contrast Adaptive Sharpening © 2023 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (MIT).
SMAA by Jorge Jimenez et al.
Made by HoneyStudios.
Written by HoneyStudios. 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 DreamLight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DreamLight Shadersthe one you looked at | 134K | 1.18 – 26.x | Aug 9, 2026 | Free |
| Solas ShaderSeptonious | 18.7M | 1.12 – 26.x | 9 days ago | Free |
 Lumenite ShadersWillek | 7,815 | 1.20 – 26.x | 4 days ago | Free |
 oh shinysimplysunny | 275 | 1.20 – 26.x | 6 days ago | Free |
Yes. DreamLight Shaders supports Minecraft 26.x. All supported versions: 26.x, 1.21, 1.20, 1.19, 1.18.
Yes. DreamLight Shaders is free to download from Modrinth.
Yes. The last update came out in the past day.
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