What is the Potato Shader?
This is a shaderpack that tries to stay as lightweight as possible to, as its name might suggest, even be usable on a literal potato of a PC. However it still tries to enhance the visuals in a reasonable way, despite lacking the fabled dynamic shadows and other effects of expensive nature. It also provides a degree of customizability through various ingame settings to allow you to get the experience you want.
What features does it offer?
- Dynamic Colors
- Tonemapping
- Bloom
- Depth of Field
- Motionblur
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing
- Ambient Occlusion
- Custom Water
- Normalmap Support and many more.
Any Requirements?
- OptiFine for 1.12 or newer/Iris 1.5.0 or newer
- A graphics card supporting OpenGL 4.0
- Windows/Linux
- Intel HD 5000 Graphics and older are NOT supported on Windows (blame Intel Drivers)!
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Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.12, 1.12.1, 1.12.2
- 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 PotatoShaders_v1.0d.zip
- Download size: 384 KB
- Download link checked 27 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.