CelShade Shader
A lightweight, highly customizable shader that transforms Minecraft into a vibrant, retro comic book using crisp outlines and color posterization.
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Welcome to CelShade!
CelShade is a unique post-processing shader designed to completely overhaul Minecraft's aesthetic. Instead of aiming for hyper-realistic lighting or waving shadows, CelShade leans heavily into stylized art, transforming your blocky world into a vibrant, low-color-depth comic book.

Whether you're exploring the deep dark of a Lush Cave, wandering the desert or fighting an Ender Dragon, this shader gives everything a striking, hand-drawn, retro feel.

Key Features:
- Depth-Based Outlines: Automatically draws crisp, dark outlines around blocks, terrain changes, and entities based on scene depth.
- Color Posterization: Replaces smooth lighting gradients with distinct, chunky color bands.
- Vibrant Saturation: Boosts the natural colors of the game to make the limited color palette truly pop.
- Smart Fog Integration: The cel-shaded effect smoothly fades out into vanilla fog at the edge of your render distance, keeping the horizon looking natural.
- Highly Configurable: Everything is tweakable! Use the in-game shader settings menu to adjust the thickness of your outlines, the intensity of the colors, the strictness of the posterization, and the size of your vignette.
Requirements:
This shader is built for and requires Minecraft 1.16+ with Iris Shaders. It will run on every computer because it only uses final post-processing pass.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.16.3, 1.17.1, 1.21
- 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 CurseForge — 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.
- Downloads as CelShade.zip
- Download size: 30 KB
- Download link checked 14 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.