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PlunderPixel's Shaders 1.12.2 → 1.11.2

Realistic and demanding shader pack with high-quality features and optimized coding.

Developer👤PlunderPixels
Style🌅Realistic
Support GPUs
Loaders
Performance ImpactMedium
Settings29
Features Water Reflections+20
CreatedApr 14, 2014
UpdatedApr 16, 2014
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The PluderPixel’s Shaders is a light Shader pack designed for realism and provides many Shader features that will make your Minecraft a little more realistic. The Shader was fully overwritten and now features more optimized coding than ever before.

Advanced Shader effects

PlunderPixel’s Shader pack is not shy about providing wonderful effects and features and uses all the advanced Shader effects it could without sacrificing performance. Because of the quality of the pack, it is considered on par with many popular Shader Packs like SEUS.

Realistic Sky

One of the most beautiful features of this Shader pack is its ultra-realistic skybox and textures. On top of that, it also features beautiful lighting and bloom effects that make the day and the night absolutely gorgeous.

Dynamic Lights

A key feature that makes the Shader pack beautiful is its wonderful dynamic lighting effect and Shadows.

Jaw-Dropping Water

The physics-based water looks absolutely gorgeous with the addition of reflection and refraction effects. With this pack installed, water will reflect the sky and the landscape while refracting light sources. Shiny objects and blocks will also have similar effects on them!

Waving Foliage and Flora

As with most Shader packs, this wonderful pack also features waving grass, flowers, leaves, and more for a more dynamic and immersive world.

Realistic Vibe

The wonderful PlunderPixel’s Shader mod aims to provide quality realism in the game, and it is delivered greatly. By installing this pack, your Minecraft world will become much more realistic than you started, and it won’t look the same.

The PluderPixel’s Shader pack is absolutely beautiful. Graphics-wise, it makes the game a lot more realistic and immersive. The pack’s highlights are the excellent reflective and refractive water, gorgeous looking sky, and immersive Shadows and lighting effects. Although the pack requires a lot of resources and might drop your framerate, it is still worth using. If you have a high-end PC with beast specs, then it is more reason to use this beautiful pack.

PlunderPixel's compatible versions:
  • 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

Features

Over 20 new features are available in PlunderPixel's Shaders to enhance your gaming experience.

📊 Performance Impacts

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

How To Install PlunderPixel's 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 PlunderPixel's 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 PlunderPixel's 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 PlunderPixel's Shaders

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

  8. Select PlunderPixel's Shaders

    Choose PlunderPixel's shader pack from the list of available shaders in the options menu.


How to install PlunderPixel's 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 PlunderPixel's 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 PlunderPixel's Shaders

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

  9. Select PlunderPixel's Shaders

    Choose PlunderPixel's shader pack from the list of available shaders in the options menu.

Warning

To ensure a bug-free visual experience with PlunderPixel’s Shaders, follow these performance tweaks:

  • Run the game in a smaller resolution on full-screen.
  • Lower your render distance to “Short + 16”.
  • Toggle “Smooth FPS” to ON in “Options > Video Settings > Performance”.
    • “ON” provides responsive input and steady FPS but may lower the maximum FPS.

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Something You Should Know

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  • No modifications or edits are made to the files.
  • 👨‍💻 PlunderPixels is the creator of PlunderPixel's Shaders

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