Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 42 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Sodium Core Shader Support, Twilight Iris Xe Fix, Jaggies Begone.
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Sodium Core Shader Support
Enables resourcepacks to be able to replace sodium's shaders, similar to resourcepacks being able to replace vanilla's core shaders.
Twilight Iris Xe Fix
Fix Aurora Shader crash on Iris Xe drivers For 1.20.x.
Jaggies Begone
A Minecraft Fabric client mod that allows the application of 4x FXAA through the vanilla shader system, and forced mipmapping on blocks with cutout type rendering.
PMShaders
PMShaders give shader support to ProtoManly's weather mod.
Enhanced Celestials 2: Shader Support
Bridge mod adding support for sodium / iris shaders in order for moon colors to work correctly.
Flashier Flashlights
The first flashlight mod to implement proper shadow mapping with full shader pack support (Oculus/Iris, Embeddium/Sodium).
GGTU
Your go-to choice for upscaling and frame generation with shaders! Boosts FPS even on low-end PCs.
Koala Lib
Multipurpose Library used between many of my mods! Adds Configs, Mod Update Checkers, Post Processing Shader Registration for Render Layers, Toggle-able Magic Meter, etc
Better Combat Punchy Fix
Fixes duplicated first-person weapon rendering when using Better Combat, Punchy, and shaders.
Vulkan PostFX
Experimental VPFX shader pack loader and post-processing framework for Minecraft’s modern Vulkan-based rendering path.
Sable: Destructive
Physics-driven destruction for Sable: block-by-block impacts, craters, debris, dust plumes, shockwaves, camera shake, custom shaders and live server controls.
Flashback-Iris-SkyColorOverrideCompat
Flashback sky color override compat for IrisShaders.
The Forgotten Man
A hand-built DELTARUNE Chapter 5 dimension you reach through a craftable door. The tree room, the man behind the tree, and a shader based portal you can see through.
Biome Shader Switch
🗸 Switches shaders based on the player's current biome. Supports Iris & Oculus shader packs with per-biome, per-height, and fallback shader rules. Auto-detects all biomes including modded ones — zero manual config needed.
Voxy Infinite Player Visibility
created using AI ! i wanted a mod to see other player build from far away, so here it is ! Work with Voxy (And shaders if pached)
Server Shader Gate & Enforcer
Requires players to use a shader on the server (Iris)
BodyHealth - Locational Health & Damage
Simulate health per body part | highly customizable | scriptable effects | raytracing | API & Addons

Vital
A mod which adds clean, minimal, but readable SHADER COMPATIBLE health bars to each mob in the game (optionally replacing boss bars with colour coded bars per active boss too).
Vision Goggles
This mod adds realistic night and thermal vision goggles to Minecraft with immersive shader effects. It features a customizable battery system that lets you use different items to charge your gear.
WindLink
Adds a realistic wind engine that is terrain aware for shaders to respond to.

Block Dithering
Adds dithered transparency effect to blocks. Compatible with any shaders and resource packs! ✨
PlunderEngine
A feature library that bridges the world data and expands vanilla and shaderpack visual capabilities within the world. Adds readable water, wind, particle data and broad mod compatibility.
Ultra Secret Settings
Client side mod that brings back Super Secret Settings with more shaders
Iris Caves
Makes Alex's Caves work with your shaders — biome fog, the Luxtructosaurus red sky, Deepsight, and fixes for its invisible mobs and projectiles.
Universal Depth of Field
Native DoF - no shaders required.
Shader Carry
Fixes the invisibility and broken lighting bugs when carrying entities or blocks with the Carry On mod while using Shaders.
MapperPlugin
Provide more elements and features for the Map Creator, such as custom cameras, custom hud, custom interfaces, playing animations, adding post production shaders, etc
JFlashlight
Illuminate your world with a toggleable, photon-forked shader-powered flashlight. Creates a directional beam with 16 colors, volumetric dust, and multiplayer support.
Ocular
This mod improves the visual approach without unnecessary addons by adding shaders to the screen.
Shader Carry Forked
Fixes Carry On rendering bugs with shaders for Fabric and NeoForge.
Flashlight: Shader Light Engine
Handheld flashlight and work lantern with real dynamic lighting: a shader-driven beam that casts true shadows from actual block shapes, zooms with the mouse wheel, and blinds anyone who looks in. Plus night vision goggles and signal flares.
Legacy Lighting
Legacy console inspired lighting for Fabric, using Legacy4J's gamma and lightmap shaders by Wilyicaro.
Shadered Dimensions
Adds enterable Shadered skybox-block dimensions with ambient music.
Blopedit
A Minecraft Fabric client-side mod to quickly and easily edit the block.properties file from shaders.
Simple AA
A lightweight mod that adds FXAA to Fabric minecraft without shaders.
MC Lag Compensation
This project uses backwards ray tracing to ensure that a valid hit on a lagging client registers to the server as true!