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Acid Shaders 1.19.1 → 1.18.2

Warp distant terrain with trippy, psychedelic effects without affecting performance.

Developer👤BruceKnowsHow
StylePsychedelic
Support GPUs
Loaders
Performance ImpactPotato
Features Customization+4
CreatedDec 2, 2013
UpdatedJun 22, 2015
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The Acid Shaders mod is like many other shader mods in that it affects the way lights, shadows, and shade work in the world of Minecraft. It may have some issues working with the latest version of Minecraft (1.19) because Acid Shaders came around a few years ago, back before any of the new items, objects, and models were added to the game. This shader pack doesn’t require any additional software or mods to work correctly, so you should be able to just install it and play with it, especially since it is not resource-intensive like many other shader packs.

Unlike many shader packs, which focus on creating a sense of realism by making light bend and move in a more realistic way in Minecraft, Acid Shaders is more for people who want a surreal experience that breaks away from reality. You can immediately see this in the psychedelic effects which occur on objects and environmental aspects that are far away from the player, or you. The farther you are from something, the more distorted it becomes, thanks to this shader pack, which is doubtless what inspired the name Acid Shaders. Playing Minecraft with this enabled is almost like being on drugs.

Getting back to the requirements, though, GLSL Acid Shaders is actually pretty easy for most players to use. As the author has said before, if you can run Minecraft without issues, then you should be able to run Minecraft with Acid Shaders installed and get improved visuals without suffering a major hit to performance and rendering speeds. This is not a resource-intensive shader pack like some others, but that is only because it doesn’t focus on lighting and shadow effects so much as distorting the landscape and altering the player’s perception of the world surrounding them in a different way.

If you’re looking for an interesting take on the same old Minecraft gameplay, you might really like the Acid Shaders shader mod. It makes the world look disturbing in a sense, and it will definitely make you do double-takes, stop to blink, and repeatedly ask yourself if what you’re seeing on the screen is what’s actually happening in the game. With low resource requirements, pretty much anyone who can play Minecraft can use Acid Shaders. However, because Acid Shaders doesn’t really work like most shader packs, many users will probably want to steer clear of it for something more like what they expect.

Acid compatible versions:
  • 1.19.1
  • 1.19
  • 1.18.2
  • 1.18.1
  • 1.18
  • 1.17.1
  • 1.17
  • 1.16.5
  • 1.16.4
  • 1.16.3
  • 1.16.2
  • 1.16.1
  • 1.16
  • 1.15.2
  • 1.15.1
  • 1.15
  • 1.14.4
  • 1.14.3
  • 1.14.2
  • 1.14.1
  • 1.14
  • 1.13.2
  • 1.13.1
  • 1.13
  • 1.12.2
  • 1.12.1
  • 1.12
  • 1.11.2
  • 1.11.1
  • 1.11
  • 1.10.2
  • 1.10.1
  • 1.10
  • 1.9.4
  • 1.9.3
  • 1.9.2
  • 1.9.1
  • 1.9
  • 1.8.9
  • 1.8.8
  • 1.8.7
  • 1.8.6
  • 1.8.5
  • 1.8.4
  • 1.8.3
  • 1.8.2
  • 1.8.1
  • 1.8
  • 1.7.10
  • 1.7.9
  • 1.7.8
  • 1.7.7
  • 1.7.6
  • 1.7.5
  • 1.7.4
  • 1.7.2
  • 1.7
  • 1.6.4
  • 1.6.2

Acid Shaders — Screenshots

Animal Crossing Shaders — Screenshots

Features

Over 4 new features are available in Acid Shaders to enhance your gaming experience.

📊 Performance Impacts

  • None
    No performance decreases
  • Small
    ~5%
  • Medium
    ~10%
  • High
    ~25%
  • Extreme
    +50%

Comparison

Our comparison tool makes it easy to compare Acid Shaders with Minecraft vanilla and other shader packs.

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How To Install Acid Shaders

Supported Optifine Recommend • 1.19.1—1.8.8
  • Support Forge / Vanilla
  • Extra features
  • Good performance
Supported GLSL Shaders Discontinued • 1.8—1.6.4
  • No modding required Support Forge
  • No modding required Older versions of Minecraft are supported
Optifine Installation Guide

Note

Your device must have Java installed to run the Forge and Optifine installers.

Quick Java Installation Guide
  1. Download Java

    Download the Java installer from the official website here.

  2. Open Installer

    Once you have downloaded the file, run it and click the Install button.

How to install Acid Shaders with Optifine?

  1. Download Optifine

    Get the latest version of Optifine for your Minecraft version.
    Download Optifine

  2. Install Optifine

    Run the Optifine installer and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

  3. Download Acid Shaders

    Go to the download section and get shaders zip file. Unzip the file if necessary, as some shader developers may bundle multiple shader versions in one zip file.

    Jump to Download Section

  4. Launch Minecraft

    Start the Minecraft launcher and make sure you have the Optifine profile selected.

  5. In-game Shaders menu

    Go to Options > Video Settings > Shaders to access the shaders menu.

  6. Open shaderpacks folder

    Click on the "Shaders Folder" button to open the folder where shaders are stored, so you can add or remove shaders as desired.

  7. Install Acid Shaders

    Copy or move the downloaded Acid shaders zip file into the shaderpacks folder.

  8. Select Acid Shaders

    Choose Acid shader pack from the list of available shaders in the options menu.


How to install Acid Shaders with Forge and Optifine?

Quick Installation Guide
  1. Install Forge

    Obtain the latest version of Forge that is compatible with your Minecraft version.
    Download Minecraft Forge

  2. Launch Minecraft

    Start the Minecraft launcher and select the version of Minecraft you want to install Forge on. Run the game once by clicking on the "Play" button to create necessary files for Forge.

  3. Install Forge Client

    Double-click on the Forge installer jar file and choose "Install Client" in the window that appears.

  4. Install Optifine

    Download the Optifine jar file after Forge is installed. Move the Optifine jar file to the mods folder in the .minecraft directory.
    Download Optifine

  5. Launch Forge Profile

    Launch Minecraft using the "Forge" profile, Optifine will be automatically loaded along with Forge.

  6. Install Chocapic13's Shaders

    Now the installation is the same as from the above Optifine instructions, just follow the steps starting from step 5.

GLSL Installation Guide

Warning

Using this Shader loader is only recommended if you are playing on very old versions of Minecraft, such as 1.6.4 or 1.7.10. For the latest versions of Minecraft, please use Optifine or Iris shaders for better performance and support for the latest features.

How to install Acid Shaders with GLSL Shaders Mod?

  1. Install Forge

    Download the latest version of Forge that is compatible with your Minecraft version.
    Download Minecraft Forge

  2. Launch Minecraft

    Start the Minecraft launcher and select the version of Minecraft you want to install Forge on. Run the game once by clicking on the "Play" button to create the necessary files for Forge.

  3. Install Forge Client

    Double-click on the Forge installer jar file and choose "Install Client" in the window that appears.

  4. Install GLSL Shaders Mod

    Download the GLSL jar file after Forge is installed. Move the GLSL jar file to the mods folder in the .minecraft directory.
    Download GLSL Shaders

  5. Launch Forge Profile

    Launch Minecraft using the "Forge" profile, and GLSL Shaders will be automatically loaded along with Forge.

  6. In-game Shaders menu

    Go to Options > Shaders to access the shaders menu.

  7. Open shaderpacks folder

    Click on the "Open shaderpacks folder" button to open the folder where shaders are stored.

  8. Install Acid Shaders

    Copy or move the downloaded shaders zip file into the shaderpacks folder.

  9. Select Acid Shaders

    Choose Acid shader pack from the list of available shaders in the options menu.

📥 Acid Shaders — Download

Something You Should Know

  • Our links are only from the official developer, so you can be sure they are secure.
  • No modifications or edits are made to the files.
  • 👨‍💻 BruceKnowsHow is the creator of Acid Shaders

🔄 Update Logs

R6
  • Added the sky back into the background.
R5
  • Reformatted some more code.
  • Fixed the block outline bug. The transformation needs to be done inside gbuffers_basic, doing so will cause the transformation to apply to all the gbuffers, so I added programs for most of the gbuffers.
  • Made fog fancy instead of fast.
  • Collapsed the World Space edition into the Screen Space edition. You can now enable World Space by un-commenting lines in the following files: gbuffers_terrain.vsh, gbuffers_entities.vsh, and gbuffers_basic.vsh. You can also uncomment lines in the textured, textured_lit, and weather programs, but the difference is not worth the 30 seconds it would take.
  • Released Animal Crossing Shaders (would have abbreviated as AC Shaders, but that would get confused with ACid).

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