Melon Shaders is a shader developed by ashie404 based on the original platforms of BSL Shaders and Raspberry Shaders. Some effects have been adjusted to be more realistic. You will see many surprises when experiencing this shader.
Features:
- Overall improved volumetrics.
- Much prettier underwater volumetric lighting.
- Custom enchantment glint.
- Sculk shrieker made emissive.
- Lava and powdered snow now use their own fog, rather than the water fog.
- Make rain weather look properly overcast, rather than blue skies.
- Improved reflection rendering and filtering.
- Ice blocks handled properly as translucent.
- Changed most color LUTs to new ones that function vastly better.
- Particle rendering fixed, weather rendering improved greatly.
- Improved LOD (fallback) rough reflections for low-end PCs, now more accurate to microfacet reflections.
- DOF chromatic aberration improved.
- Made shadow render function take less loops.
- Night lighting improved.
- Night desaturation reworked, no longer makes things near-grayscale.
- Nether portals now glow.
- Sun & moon reflections in water improved.
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Melon Shaders Download Links
Stable Version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2
Beta Version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
Melon Shaders (26.3, 1.20.1) – Based on BSL, Raspberry Shaders is a free Minecraft Java shader. Compatible with Minecraft 1.20.1. Download it and open it directly in the game.