Minecraft Java 1.21 Mods
Browse 958 free mods for Minecraft Java 1.21 — popular picks include Simple Grayscale, Zenith Shaders, nothing superfluous + optimization.
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Simple Grayscale
Quick shader with an ON/OFF switch to make everything gray.
Zenith Shaders
A lightweight, highly optimized shaderpack focusing on soft procedural 3D clouds, immersive underwater distortion, cozy light-source blooming, and beautifully balanced, non-blinding exposures for day and night.
nothing superfluous + optimization
Optimized Fabric-based modpack that boosts FPS, reduces lag, and enhances visuals with shaders and distant terrain. Lightweight, minimal, and ideal for modern low-end to mid-range PCs. Requires 4–8 GB RAM for smooth gameplay.
Looks and Runs Great
Designed with mods for optimization and some for making it look and sound great. Just a great looking and simple Modpack. Use Distant Horizons with Shaders and have your frame rate still be playable. Enjoy!
AVALux Shaders Reimagined
Preserving the Elements of Minecraft with exceptional Quality and Performance.
Polaroid90s
Polaroid 90s Shader — Cold, faded, like an old photo from the 90s!
Cartoon Dreams Shader
A stylized cartoon shader pack with cel-shading, dynamic shadows, god rays, bloom, water effects, and waving foliage for Minecraft (OptiFine)
Fajita's Enhanced Minecraft
A modpack with quality of life features, shaders, and performance improvements
JonatanSansH's Modpack
A simple, optimized, and creator-friendly modpack by JonatanSansH that enhances vanilla with shaders, QOL tools, and Flashback — without changing gameplay.
FancyCraft
Featuring over 220 mods, including many ones for optimization, enchanting shaders, and stunning texture packs, this collection is designed to redefine your gameplay

RETRO_VHS_Screen
A minecraft styled vhs shader for horror modpacks, with flickering rec, and some more cool things.
Despatra's CRT
A basic CRT shader with some customizability
EntityMask shader
Shader tool that allows you to make perfect chromakey.
Ice Cream Sundae
Keep playing on vanilla servers with fresh looks and utilities. Fully vanilla compatible clientpack drizzled with optimizations and handy tools, sprinkled with audio and graphics delights, and topped with a lightweight shader. FORMERLY VANILLA BEAN PACK
Aalu Shaders
Extremely lightweight shaders with shadows and reflections.
Cosinus Shader
Sinus, but the opposite!
BPR SUPERPACK
This BPR SUPERPACK is optimized with the most useful options to keep minecraft as normal as possible, no shaders and no animations. But a better F3, zoom option, minimap and waypoints that you can place. It also has a slightly nicer layout in the chat.
N.Y.X's Optimized
The greatest Minecraft performance pack, supporting the latest versions, and achieving well over 120 FPS with shaders, and a consistent 300-500 FPS without shaders. This has been tested on a mid and high end PC.
Karma Shader Cartoon Style
A hand-crafted cel-shaded Minecraft shaderpack that turns the world into a playable animated film. Features distinctive toon lighting bands, sharp ink outlines, painted skies, animated water foam, and custom dimension overhauls.
Red And Black Shaders
A Minecraft Shader that changes everything to black and all the entities to Red.
ClearVision Shader
Ultra clear and bright shader with enhanced colors, smooth lighting, and built-in night vision for perfect visibility in all dimensions.
Cozy Shader
Warm golden lighting with sunrise and sunset color shifts, cozy orange torchlight, animated water with depth-based coloring, soft fog, and a subtle vignette.
NovaLite Visuals
This is a texture pack made by me, for people who want to use shaders but their device cant handle it. This pack recreates a shader-like feel (also uses core-shaders for shadows and lighting) whilst maintaing good performance with little to no fps drops!
Sylbobek's Shader Pack
Realistic, FPS-friendly shaders - soft shadows, procedural sky, waving plants, glowing lights and cinematic colors.
PosterizationShader
PosterizationShader is a lightweight shader pack for Minecraft that applies an artistic posterization effect to the game's visuals. The shader reduces the number of colors to create a stylized "poster" look with visible color bands.
Simply Shaded
The only shaderpack designed for Maximum FPS.
PS2 Shader
This Shaderpack adds CRT TV like PS2 gameplay
MOTCraft server
MOTCraft has tech, magic, and shaders with mods to help performance
Renford Tomlinson
Best Shaderpack for Youtube Videos / Thumbnails / Horror Content
Acid Shaders Refurbished
The acid shader is a shader designed to make you puke/dizzy. And now its in 26.2!
Carmine
A shaderpack that adds a Carmine theme to the game - Perfect for horror mods and adventure maps!
Blind Shader
A shader that makes it hard to see on any distance.
Rymeyy's OneBlock Server Pack
Official Fabric modpack for Rymeyy's OneBlock server, featuring performance mods, shaders, minimap, and Twitch-style chat emotes.
Pomme
I love POM but I don't like its limitations. Pomme is an experimental shader with extrusion capabilities.
Zyno's Client+
A 1.21 Modpack that Adds Quality of Life improvements like a Screenshot Viewer, HUD, Friend System and Ingame Resource pack & Shader Downloader while still improving performance as much as possible
Modern PvP Modpack
Every essential mod for pvp along with performance boosting mods. Shaders Supported! WITH CONFIG