Elytrune Shaders

🚨 NOTICE: Project Discontinued & Replaced

Elytrune Shaders is no longer updated or maintained.

Development has officially moved entirely to Cealith Shaders, which acts as the successor to this project. All future visual improvements, bug fixes, features, and updates for new Minecraft versions will take place there.

Please consider switching to Cealith Shaders for the latest updates!

Elytrune Shaders is a realistic vanilla+ shaderpack for Minecraft Java Edition, focused on calm and warm lighting, natural colors, atmospheric skies, soft shadows, and immersive water.

Designed to enhance Minecraft while preserving its familiar visual style, Elytrune aims to make the world feel more alive through subtle environmental effects, realistic water, dynamic lighting, and carefully balanced colors without becoming overly aggressive or cinematic.

⚠️IMPORTANT:

Elytrune Shaders is developed and maintained by CoolSantyx. This CurseForge page is an official source for Elytrune Shaders downloads, updates, and changelogs.

Features

• Soft dynamic shadows.
• Warm, natural, and balanced lighting.
• Enhanced skies, sunrises, afternoons, and sunsets.
• Calm and atmospheric nights.
• Improved vanilla cloud shading.
• Atmospheric fog.
• Realistic water with depth, transparency, reflections, Fresnel effects, animated waves, refraction, and caustics.
• Improved lighting for emissive objects and Nether environments.
• Refined colors, contrast, and tone mapping.
• Designed to preserve Minecraft’s vanilla aesthetic while adding depth and realism.

Performance

Elytrune is designed to balance visual quality and performance, focusing on lightweight techniques while avoiding extremely demanding effects such as path tracing and ray tracing.

Three performance profiles are planned:

LOW — For lower-end systems.
BALANCED — Recommended for most systems.
HIGH — For systems with additional GPU headroom.

Compatibility

Elytrune Shaders is designed for Minecraft Java Edition and shader loaders such as Iris and OptiFine.

Performance may vary depending on your hardware, resolution, render distance, resource packs, and other installed mods.