10 best Minecraft Bedrock shaders (2024)

Minecraft is known for its iconic blocky art style. However, after dozens of hours building a survival base and looking at the same handful of textures for in-game days, players are sure to want a change. Thankfully, the community has created different shaders that change how the game renders many visual systems, such as water, light, fog, or clouds.

Listed below are the best Minecraft Bedrock shaders available as of 2024.

Note: This list is subjective and solely reflects the opinions of the writer

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Minecraft Bedrock's 10 best shaders

1) Trailer Graphics

Some of the most iconic imagery associated with Minecraft is the art style from the game's many cinematic trailers. Thankfully for players, the Trailer Graphics shader allows for this iconic art style to be fully playable.

When combined with the accompanying texture pack, this shader helps bring the saturation, haze, and overall visual aesthetics from the trailer cinematics into the game, making for a totally new experience.

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2) IRIS Optic

IRIS Optic does exactly what it claims to do: it enhances the optics.

This shader does not push the game into photo-realism, nor does it completely overhaul its design philosophies. It simply takes the vanilla game and pushes it up to the next level with little to no gameplay impact.

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3) SERP Shader

This is the best choice within the category of high visual impact and moderate-to-low-impact shaders. The changes made, such as the shaking leaves and more realistic sky, as well as a warmer light rendering system, are very welcome but not quite impressive enough to land SERP any higher on this list.

Nevertheless, SERP is a great choice for players on rigs of moderate power.

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4) Alpha Optimizer

Alpha Optimizer is one of the best shaders for Minecraft Bedrock due to just how much it simplifies the game. This shader specializes in adding FPS by reducing unnecessary particle effects, lowering render distance, and removing clouds, among many other things.

This allows players on older hardware to experience newer versions of the game by freeing up resources. It might also help a heavily modded Minecraft game to survive all the new items, mobs, and entities.

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5) Yummy Sheep Shader

Yummy Sheep renders Minecraft's deep oceans a piercing crystal-clear blue. This adds a gorgeous element of life to the world, allowing players to see underwater happenings.

Plant life is also given a natural sway, as if a calm breeze can be felt at all times, further adding to realism and immersion.

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6) Bicubic Shader

Bicubic Shader is on this list of best shaders for one simple reason: it makes a lot of really good tweaks and one incredible change. Starting with the really good, colors and shadows are warmer and more vibrant, the sky is nice and immersively realistic, and light rendering has been given a major realism overhaul.

The one incredible change is the ocean, which is rendered in a uniquely gorgeous way, being both welcoming and inviting as well as foreboding and intimidating.

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7) Continuum

Continuum is a name familiar to any veteran Minecraft shader user. It has been one of the best shaders around for many years and across different versions. It should come as no surprise, then, that a Bedrock Continuum release makes the number one spot in this list of best shaders.

Continuum truly does it all. Clouds are more realistic, the water is gorgeous, the simulated breeze feels real, and the fog feels like it could cause one to get lost. The shader simply makes the game much more immersive and worth experiencing.

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8) Poggy’s Luminous Dreams

A fox rests in Minecraft with Poggy’s Luminous Dreams shaders enabled (Image via XxPoggyisLitxX/MCPEDL)

Created in the Minecraft Bedrock’s 1.20.80 Preview, Poggy’s Luminous Dreams works for Bedrock Edition 1.20.30+ and uses the Render Dragon engine to create heightmaps on blocks, giving them 3D-like textures that can glow in the light. The lighting is soft and realistically scatters and bends across the surfaces of blocks, bringing definition to the heightmapped textures on several blocks and making them feel a bit more in-depth.

Even better, while this shader pack is sure to require some sizable resources for its performance, Poggy’s Luminous Dreams has plenty of shader settings for its lighting and post-processing effects to ensure consistent FPS on a wide variety of platforms.

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9) Oceanic

Oceanic shaders strike a balance between visuals and performance in Minecraft (Image via FrostAlpha/MCPEDL)

By placing emphasis on soft lighting and cool and warm-colored atmospheres, Oceanic shaders are a fantastic set of shaders, particularly for players who want to still get a shader boost on a low-end device. It utilizes a custom sky texture for improved visuals for both day and night, doesn’t push for a ton of after-effects to keep the performance impact low, but still uses enough to create tides on the water and a more believable collection of fog visuals.

Best of all, according to the developer, the shaders can work on incredibly low-spec platforms. On even the least impressive hardware, there shouldn’t be a noticeable FPS loss after installing these shaders.

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10) RWSPE

RWSPE can provide some incredible Minecraft visuals at its highest settings (Image via CD WORLD GAMES/YouTube)

If Minecraft fans have a device that can handle some high-end graphical rendering, then RWSPE might be worth checking out. Complete with more realistic lighting and shadows as well as custom sky textures, one of the big draws of this particular shader pack is its ability to simulate reflective water on most of its performance settings. Effects surrounding water physics and the light produced by the sun have also been heavily revamped.

Although this shader pack takes a pretty beefy device, it does have variable settings that should help players fine-tune their experience to reach quality performance while ensuring their world looks as aesthetically pleasing as possible.

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How to install shaders in Minecraft Bedrock

Most modern Minecraft shaders should be simple to install to Bedrock Edition (Image via Mojang)

Although Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is still adding shader support on some platforms like concerts, the prevalence of shaders as .Mcpack files allow players on Windows PCs and Android/iOS mobile devices to access them and install them in very short order. Once the .Mcpack file has been downloaded, all that’s required to install it is opening it with the Bedrock Edition program.

Regardless, for a closer look at the process, fans can take a look at how to install shaders on Windows and mobile devices below:

1. Head to your Bedrock Edition site of choice (MCPEDL is great for shaders, for example), and pick a shader that you’d like to download. Ensure that it matches your version of Minecraft Bedrock, as some shaders may be outdated.
2. Find the download link and click/tap it. In the vast majority of cases, you should receive an .Mcpack file. If you don’t, it may be best to check out another shader to keep the installation process as painless as possible.
3. In the event that the shader arrives as a .zip file, you can extract it on Windows by right-clicking it and choosing to extract it, which should result in a folder that contains the .Mcpack file. On mobile devices, you can use a program such as 7zip to unzip the .zip archives.
4. Once you have your .Mcpack file through whichever method you prefer, double-click it or tap it on your mobile device, and you should be prompted to use the program you’d like to use to open the file. Select Minecraft, and the game should automatically open and begin importing the shader pack.
5. Once the import is finished, open your settings on the main menu and navigate to the Global Sources tab. Click/tap it, and then open the My Packs submenu. Select the shader pack in this menu and choose to activate it, and the shaders should be ready to go the next time you enter a world.

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