What is the Nostalgia Shader?
This shaderpack is intended to reproduce the look and feel of the "old" shaderpacks from back when the shadersmod was new. However it also builds ontop of that with new features and superior performance. Accidentally it also has some similarities to the now cancelled "Super Duper Graphics Pack".
What features does it offer?
- Dynamic soft shadows
- Optional screen-space path-tracing (SSPT)
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA)
- Vanilla style volumetric clouds with multiple cloud layers (the first of their kind)
- they also rely on the cloud texture provided by your resourcepack
- Screen-space reflections and optional offscreen environment reflections (when enabling the reflection capture)
- Volumetric fog
- labPBR resourcepack support
- Various optional lens effects such as depth of field, lens flares and vignette and many, many more.
Any Requirements?
- OptiFine for 1.16 or newer or Iris 1.5.0 or newer
- A graphics card that supports OpenGL 4.3 or newer
- Windows/Linux
External Links:
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1
- How to install: Download the .zip resource pack — do not unzip it. → Put it in .minecraft/resourcepacks. → Enable it in Options → Resource Packs.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
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- Downloads as Nostalgia_v5.1.zip
- Download size: 1.8 MB
- Download link checked 27 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.