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Astralis 🌌
Astralis is a Minecraft shader focused on creating a beautiful, atmospheric world without requiring an ultra-powerful PC.
✨ Features
- 🌌 Dynamic nighttime auroras
- 🌅 Atmospheric sunrise and sunset
- ☀️ Improved daytime lighting
- 🌳 Soft shadows from terrain, trees, and foliage
- 🔦 Natural-looking light falloff
- 🌊 Enhanced water
- 🌠 Stars and atmospheric night skies
- 🟣 Special effects for the End
- 🔥 No aurora effects in the Nether
- ⚡ Designed around medium performance
🎨 Style
Astralis aims for a balance between beautiful cinematic visuals and playable performance.
It is not designed to completely overhaul Minecraft's art style. Instead, it enhances the vanilla world with better lighting, atmosphere, shadows, and a more interesting night sky.
🚧 Development
Astralis is currently in development.
Expect bugs, visual glitches, and changes as the shader continues to improve.
More features and visual improvements are planned!
[0.1.0] Astralis 0.1.0
by chenuldamvidu on Oct 16, 2026
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## Astralis 0.1.0-alpha
Initial public alpha release of **Astralis**.
### Added
- Dynamic multi-band auroras in the Overworld
- Purple auroras in the End
- Clearer night skies with reduced cloud visibility at night
- More numerous small stars
- Improved day and night sky colors
- Atmospheric sunrise and sunset lighting
- Refined terrain and foliage lighting
- Soft terrain, tree, and foliage shadows
- Improved torch and block-light falloff
- More realistic water shading
- Brighter and more readable underwater lighting
- Improved End ambient lighting
- Medium-performance visual profile
### Notes
- This is an **alpha release**, so visual bugs and compatibility issues may still occur.
- Currently tested on **Minecraft Java 26.2 with Iris**.
- More improvements to the sun, moon, water, lighting, performance, and sky effects are planned for future versions.
