Somber — Bedrock Port

 

A best effort Minecraft: Bedrock Edition port of Somber by Snorfield.

    A Bedrock Edition port of Somber, the Java shader that brings back the atmosphere of alpha and beta Minecraft with a few extra stuff. The pack is built for Vibrant Visuals & Raytracing, but it also works in the regular Fancy mode, with fewer features.

 

Features

Fog - The world fades into fog about 30 blocks out! Leaving distant trees and hills as faint silhouettes. The fog takes on the colour of the sky: soft blue by day, deep navy at dusk, near-black at night. Rain turns it a cold grey. Fog also thickens dynamically! The fog covers the whole sky, so the horizon disappears. The sun and moon show only as faint glows. You can turn this off to get the open sky back.

Water - Water is solid blue; you cannot see below the surface of the water. Every biome has its own water tint.

Foliage - Grass & leaves get a punchy, saturated green from the beta version of mc.

VFX (Screen Effects) - There are 3: vignette (the screen edges fade into darkness), film grain (flickering noise, sorta like an old camcorder), & chromatic aberration (a coloured lens fringe around the edges of your vision)!

Shadows - Shade is a bit deeper, nights are completely dark, and caves are pitch black until you light a torch. Torches also emit a coloured light, not just one fixed color. Sunlight casts blocky, pixelated shadows.

Sun & Moon Brightness  - The sun and moon are brighter, as in the original shader. You'll see this best with the sky overlay turned off

 

Requirements

This pack is best with Vibrant Visuals, though Fancy graphics also suffices!  

Requires Minecraft: Bedrock v1.26.0 or newer.

Vibrant Visuals' Hardware Requirements:

Windows: Graphics cards and drivers supporting DirectX 12

Intel GPUs: Intel graphics driver version 31.0.101.3430 or later is required

Android: Android devices running on Adreno 640 (something likke Snapdragon 855), Mali-G68 / Mali-G77 (Valhall architecture, like MediaTek 1000 series), Maleoon, PowerVR A-Series, or Xclipse 530 or higher

IOS/iPadOS:  An iPhone or iPad running on an A12 Bionic, M1 chip, or higher (like teh iPhone XR, iPhone SE 2nd gen, and newer)

 

Customising Somber

Slider option	What it does
Screen Effects: Off	Removes the vignette, grain & lens fringe for a clean image
Vignette: Off	Removes the dark screen edges
Chromatic Aberration: Off	Removes the coloured lens fringe
Noise: Off	Removes the film grain
Old Foliage Vibrance: Off	Puts grass and leaves back to normal Minecraft colours
Water Transparency: On	Makes water see-through again
Fog Sky Overlay: Off	Clears the sky so you can see the sun, moon and stars
Fog: Off	Removes the Somber fog completely
Fog Strength: Light	Thinner fog that lets you see a lot further
Fog Strength: Heavy	Thicker, more clautrophobic fog
Preset: Subtle	A gentler version of everything
Preset: Intense	Stronger vingette, grain, fog and greener foliage
Preset: Nightmare	Everything at maximum, with fog closing in within about 10 blocks 👻
Somber (Default)	The original Somber look

Dependencies

This pack looks amazing if paired with the Classic Textures resource pack for Minecraft: Bedrock. Just make sure Somber is at the very bottom of your enabled packs in your world pack settings/global resource settings; otherwise, it won't look very good.

Here is the link to the dependency.

Attribution

This project is based on and inspired by Somber Shaders by Snorfield.

Original project:

Somber Shaders
Copyright © 2025 Snorfield
Licensed under the MIT License.

This project also uses the original Somber pack icon.

The original Somber MIT License is included in:

LICENSE-SOMBER

Licensing

This Project

Original work created specifically for this Bedrock port is licensed under the MIT License unless otherwise stated.

See:

LICENSE

Somber Shaders

Original Somber material remains licensed under its original MIT License.

See:

LICENSE-SOMBER

The original copyright notice and permission notice are preserved in accordance with the MIT License.

Credits

Original Somber Shaders:
Snorfield

Bedrock port:
Draco12191712 (Vivaan Bobade)