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Etherea is a vanilla-styled Minecraft shaderpack that aims to deliver sharp, satisfying visuals while maintaining high framerates. It outperforms the majority of comparable shaderpacks without compromising on visual fidelity.
Important Note: This shader is still new, so more features and improvements are to come!
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.16.5 or newer. Earlier versions may still work, but are unsupported.
- Any modern NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, or Mac system.
- Iris (recommended) or Optifine.
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[v0.1.1] Etherea Shader v0.1.1
by FoZy-STYLE on Oct 13, 2026
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This update introduces many important fixes, as well as some quality improvements and two additions.
Full changelog down below:
Full changelog down below:
- Added a new Crying Obsidian IntegratedPBR material
- Added a new 'Biome Colored Nether Portals' setting
- Improved SSAO quality in the distance, especially when zooming
- Improved lighting in gbuffers_basic (leashes, selection outline, debug outlines, etc)
- Fixed all SSAO precision issues
- Fixed ghosting in very dark scenes
- Fixed leash color being interpolated
- Fixed lightshafts ignoring view bobbing
- Fixed NaN infested sign text with labPBR in Iris 26.2+
- Fixed view bobbing not applying on handhelds in Iris 26.1+
- Fixed very subtle lightshaft leaking in caves during sunsets
- Fixed schematics from Litematica being fully opaque (and possibly also fixed translucent overlays from other mods)
- Tweaked the Nether Portal's colors to be more pleasing
- Tweaked nighttime's horizon color to be a little less saturated
- Made many internal changes regarding vertex transform calculations
[v0.1] Etherea Shader v0.1
by FoZy-STYLE on Oct 13, 2026
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First release!
