Alternatives to Simple Shadows

Elysium Shadersby stopscream · Shaders · 1.21 – 26.x

Elysium Shaders is a shader pack that adds soft shadows, pleasing colors, and natural phenomena.

Miniature Shaderby ukrech · Shaders · 1.8 – 26.x

Extremely lightweight with shadows and reflections

Shrimpleby Null · Shaders · 1.16 – 1.21

A simple Minecraft Java shader that attempts to maintain the vanilla aesthetic while adding optional shadows, colored lighting, and ray-tracing.

Just Colored Lightingby timetravelbeard · Shaders · 1.19 – 26.x

Just Colored Lighting and Dynamic Lights added to a very fast shader for Potato computers, with optional shadows, texture upscaling, and great PBR support…

Simply Upscaledby timetravelbeard · Shaders · 1.12 – 26.x

A very Vanilla high performance shader with live Texture Upscaling/Filtering and optional shadows. Configurable subtly enhanced vanilla feel.

Simplicissimus Shaderby RRe36 · Shaders · 1.12 – 1.20

A shaderpack that tries to stay as simple as possible while still adding dynamic shadows and preserving as much of the vanilla rendering as possible.

Phoxel PTby Despatra · Shaders · 1.20 – 26.x

[WIP] A Minecraft shader that strives to capture some of the beauty of real life, mixed with the unique ambience and blocky beauty of the Minecraft we've all…

SillyWankerShaderby bombacat · Shaders · 1.12 – 1.21

A minecraft Shader which tries to keep the vanilla look, while adding functionalities like other shaders and implementing some own silly things like Color…

Vanilla Advancedby ThePlaneGuy45 · Shaders · 1.20

A high-performance shader meant to both look good and run on low-end computers! Might have some bugs on older GPUs. Feedback is appreciated!

Bitmap Vanilla Shaderby Eevee_17 · Shaders · 1.21 – 26.x

Renders the game with only the colors black and white (bitmap).

Foxy shaderby ENXV233 · Shaders · 1.20 – 26.x

An in-development shader with global ray tracing and some interesting features.

Warped Memoryby nxyzcio · Shaders · 1.19 – 26.x

This shader, turns the game into a glitchy VHS tape. Distortions, noise, flickering and blurred colors create the effect of an old tape, immersing you in the…