ShrimpleShaders · 1.16 – 1.21A simple Minecraft Java shader that attempts to maintain the vanilla aesthetic while adding optional shadows, colored lighting, and ray-tracing.
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An in-development shader with global ray tracing and some interesting features.
Direct download from Modrinth · 42,834 downloads
Foxy shader is a shader pack made by ENXV233. An in-development shader with global ray tracing and some interesting features.
It supports Minecraft 1.20 – 26.x. It has been downloaded 42,834 times on Modrinth. The last update came out on Nov 9, 2026.
Foxy shader has had 14 releases on Modrinth since Sep 16, 2026. 14 of them came out in the past year. The newest is 1.2.3, released on Oct 17, 2026. It is made for Minecraft 1.20.1 – 26.1. It runs on Iris. The download is 73.4 MB.
| Version | Released | Minecraft | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.3 | Oct 17, 2026 | 1.20.1 – 26.1 | Release |
1.2.2 | Oct 14, 2026 | 1.20.1 – 26.1 | Release |
1.2.1 | Oct 10, 2026 | 1.20.1 – 26.1 | Release |
1.2.0 | Sep 30, 2026 | 1.20.1 – 26.1 | Release |
1.1.9 | Sep 29, 2026 | 1.20.1 – 26.1 | Release |
Foxy shader is open source. Its newest release on GitHub is Development snapshot 2026-08-02, published on Sep 16, 2026.
This is a re-upload of a build that exists on my local machine, published here so it can be downloaded and compared.
I am publishing it today, so this page carries today's date and is not evidence of when the code was written. The archive's internal file timestamps run from 2026-06-11 to 2026-08-02, but those are local filesystem timestamps and can be edited, so treat them as claims rather than proof.
What this archive is useful for is comparison, not dating. Extract it and compare it against the project published at https://modrinth.com/shader/foxy-shader. 192 of the 558 files there are byte identical to files in this archive, and the setting identifiers match as well: it declares 601 distinct FOXY_ identifiers, theirs declares 631, and theirs is the later build.
Verification:
SHA1 A1551D16BC834C30052C3164FB8EAEF9FA0335C7
SHA256 F6AB2A08AD26AB4C5FDA89D569CCFED122A4FD9DA8BEE4CC7CED3703BB762208
Bytes 12650637
Foxy — evoking agility and nimbleness — aims for a high degree of stylistic choice and all-round versatility.
The ray tracing feature must be manually enabled and its presets switched in the GUI
Features:
Supports global ray tracing (must be enabled manually), a complete IRC-SVGF denoising system, screen-space path tracing (SSPT), pure irradiance GI, and various hybrid global-illumination combinations such as screen space + irradiance cache; also supports hardware-ray-tracing-style shading presets.
Includes a real-time, volumetrically rendered black hole driven entirely by ray tracing within a relativistic framework (with a certain performance cost), highly customizable physical parameters, support for player flight-based exploration (must be enabled manually in the settings), and a four-dimensional easter egg near the singularity inspired by Interstellar.
Basic Features:
Volumetric clouds, atmospheric scattering, volumetric light, volumetric fog, weather changes, the four seasons, held light sources, motion blur, the option to manually replace the sun/moon with a real-time rendered black hole, temporal anti-aliasing with adjustable strength, TAAU (feels fairly gimmicky), tone mapping, manual color grading (AGX, ACES, ACES2), depth of field, essentially complete material support (some ultra-high-resolution materials may show moiré), material specular reflection, material rough reflection (reflections can be off-screen), no mineral/ore glow for now (just add an emissive resource pack), parallax (smooth parallax planned for the future), colorwheel, Voxy, DH compatibility, and basic compatibility with Aeronautics (physics structures generally show no serious rendering issues under ray tracing / AO); SR mod compatibility will be considered later depending on how things go.
Recommended Specs:
RTX 3060 / RX 5600 or above (with ray tracing enabled)
GT 960 / RX 470 or above (playing without ray tracing)
Integrated graphics / mobile (worth a try)
Compatibility: Iris 1.20.1 through 26.1; Oculus still untested (so far, test 1.20.1 + Oculus shades correctly).
Written by ENXV233. 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 Foxy shader 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foxy shaderthe one you looked at | 43K | 1.20 – 26.x | 1 day ago | Free |
| ShrimpleNull | 2.2M | 1.16 – 1.21 | Dec 8, 2024 | Free |
 RAY TRACING POTATOoct2one | 4,748 | 1.16 – 26.x | 26 days ago | Free |
 RTV shedersCornXX | 101 | 1.21 – 26.x | 22 hours ago | Free |
Yes. Foxy shader supports Minecraft 26.x. All supported versions: 26.x, 1.21, 1.20.
Yes. Foxy shader is free to download from Modrinth.
Yes. The last update came out in the past day.
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