
What is the Vanilla Plus Shader?
This shaderpack gives the the game a modern and streamlined visual overhaul while staying faithful to the original visuals.
What features does it offer?
- Dynamic soft shadows
- Volumetric vanilla-style clouds (they rely on the cloud texture from the resourcepack as well)
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing
- Improved lighting and dynamic colours
- Optional custom water and screenspace reflections
- Screenspace godrays
- Support for resourcepack materials based on the labPBR standard
- Various colour profiles that imitate certain looks or older shaderpacks that are broken on modern Minecraft versions (examples below)
- Various optional lens effects such as depth of field, lens flares and vignette

Any Requirements?
- OptiFine for 1.16 or newer/Iris 1.5.0 or newer
- A graphics card that supports OpenGL 4.3 or newer
- Windows/Linux
External Links:
| Version | Minecraft | Loader | Download |
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Vanilla Plus v3.3 3.3 |
1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.19.4, 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4
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iris, optifine
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Download |
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Vanilla Plus v3.2 3.2 |
1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.19.4, 1.20, 1.20.1
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iris, optifine
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Download |
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Vanilla Plus v3.1 3.1 |
1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.19.4, 1.20
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iris, optifine
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Download |
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Vanilla Plus v3.0b 3.0b |
1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.19.4
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iris, optifine
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Download |
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Vanilla Plus v3.0 3.0 |
1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.19.4
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iris, optifine
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Download |
