Pocky Shaders

A cosy, natural shader pack for Iris – soft shadows, living water and foliage, juicy sunrises and weather you can feel, while the game still looks like Minecraft. Shows the weather of my rain, snow and leaves mods.

A lake village at noon: clear water, reflections and soft haze

📦 Requires Iris (with Sodium) or Oculus · Minecraft 1.20.1 – 26.3 · put the zip into shaderpacks

✨ Features

☀️ Natural light – a physically based sky, a warm low sun, soft coloured shadows with crisp pixel edges, and
colours close to vanilla at noon instead of a repainted world.
🌅 Juicy sunrises and sunsets on both sides of the sky, a pink dawn with a morning haze, a soft moonlit night.
☁️ Vanilla-shaped clouds with volume – the game’s own cloud pattern as lit 3D cubes that cast shadows; size and
height adjustable.
🌊 Living water – refraction, reflections of the world and sky, sun glitter, caustics, shore foam, foaming
waterfalls, lamp light glowing in the water, a darker sea far from the shore.
🌾 Waving grass and leaves with light shining through them – also the leaves, flowers, saplings and crops of
other mods, which join through the game’s block tags.
⛈️ Weather you can feel – a grey overcast in rain, dark thunderstorms with lightning lighting the clouds, wet
ground with puddle patches, rainbows after rain, mist in valleys and swamps.
🔥 Warm block light – flickering torches, glowing lava that looks hot, caves that follow the game’s Brightness
setting.
🔭 Distant Horizons support – distant land and water shaded like the near world, with shadows and haze.
🎚️ Four quality presets – Low, Medium, High, Ultra on the Profile button, and every effect on its own switch in
the shader pack settings.

💞 Looks best with my visual mods

The mods hand their weather to the pack themselves while it is on – no extra mod needed (their Minecraft 1.21.1 versions; elsewhere the pack shows vanilla weather). Shader pack authors can read it too: the data format.

✅ Petrichor: Rain & Storms (1.7.0 or newer) – drizzles, downpours and storms set the sky, light and fog; sun showers, rainbows and wet ground follow its rain; puddles stay still with pixel rain rings; its lightning lights the clouds.

✅ Hoarfrost: Snow & Blizzards (1.4.0 or newer) – blizzards stay bright, not dark: the haze closes in with the storm’s visibility and gusts, and the flakes and snow cover take on the pack’s light.

✅ Rustling Leaves (2.6.0 or newer) – grass and crowns sway with the same gust waves that blow the leaves; leaves and litter are shaded like the blocks around them.

✅ Turbo for Distant Horizons – the distant land fills in fast, and the pack gives it shadows, water and haze.

🎮 Controls

Iris’ own keys: K turns the shaders on and off, R reloads them, O opens the shader pack list.

⚙️ Configuration

Video Settings > Shader Packs > Pocky Shaders > Shader Pack Settings: the quality preset (Profile) and every effect
(lighting, nature, water, sky, weather, post-processing), each on its own switch or slider. Weather from Pocky Mods
there turns the link to the mods above off.

🤝 Compatibility

✅ Iris (required) – the pack runs on Iris; its options are in the Iris shader pack menu.

✅ Oculus – the Forge port of Iris for Minecraft 1.20.1 runs the pack too; blocks of other mods sway there only if listed by name (Oculus has no block tags).

✅ Sodium – required by Iris, works.

✅ Distant Horizons (optional) – LOD terrain and water are lit, shadowed and fogged by the pack.

✅ Colorwheel (optional) – with Create and other Flywheel mods, contraptions, water wheels, cogs and trains are drawn by Colorwheel with the pack’s light and shadows, so they stay fast and still look like the world around them.

📥 Installation

Install Iris (with Sodium) for your Minecraft version, 1.20.1 to 26.3 – or
Oculus on Forge 1.20.1.
Put the zip into the shaderpacks folder of your game – do not unzip it.
Video Settings > Shader Packs: pick Pocky Shaders.

Coming from the old Pocky Shaders mod (1.x)? Remove pocky_shaders-*.jar from mods; the shaderpacks/Pocky Shaders
folder it installed can be deleted.