This update fixes some new 1.21 bugs, as well as some very long-standing ones.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed shadow flickering when TAA is enabled (unfortunately only fixed in Iris)
• Fixed Streamer Mode darkness affecting clouds
• Fixed 1.21 block selection outline in Iris
• Fixed 1.21 entities/block entities in Iris
• Fixed snowy & rainy biome detection in Iris

If you're using Optifine, you do not need to update from 1.5.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed lighting for mobs on Iris

This release adds support for Distant Horizons. There are no other changes.

Gallery

Distant Horizons

Without

With

Bug Fixes

• Fixed grass for 1.20.3+ versions

This release adds antialiasing, a much better sky, better rainy weather, and interactive grass.

With this release, the Content Creator edition of the shaders stops being officially supported. Instead, you can enable it by running enable_content_creator_presets.bat (after extracting zip file).

New Features

• TAA is now enabled by default and smooths out pixelated edges.
• The Overworld Sky has been completely redesigned to use the Hosek-Wilkie sky model. Sunsets finally exist now, and rainy skies look much better.
• Grass bends under the player's feet. Only works in 1st person.
• Lilypads now wave with the water and submerge when a player steps on them.
• Rain Fog improves the appearance of the world during rainy weather.
• Lightning now lights up the clouds as well as the area around it.
• Added a Secondary Fog layer. This is disabled by default, and acts similar to vanilla fog.
• Grass Shadows can now be disabled.
• Blocks now have Specular Shading, meaning they very subtly reflect the sun.
• Fadeout is a new option which fades out entities that get too close.
• The Twilight Forest dimension is almost fully supported - unfortunately, stars in the dimension don't work yet.
• Water Fog now matches the lighting and time of day.
• Color Grading has been improved.

Bug Fixes

• Some Glowing Elements are now properly lit.
• Lava Variation no longer has sharp edges in some places.
• Having View Bobbing enabled no longer causes block lighting inconsistencies.

Gallery

New Sky

Midday

Sunset

Rain in Sunset

New

Old

Lightning Flash

New

Old

General Comparison

Vanilla+ (New)

Vanilla+ (Old)

Vanilla++ (New)

Vanilla++ (Old)

Vanilla+++ (New)

Vanilla+++ (Old)

Fade Close Objects

Off

On

Bug Fixes

• Fixed extremely obvious bug with Vanilla+ lighting introduced in previous verison
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This is the Content Creator Edition of Pixel Perfect 1.3.6.

Report bugs with this beta

NOT COMPATIBLE WITH IRIS 1.6.5.

Report bugs with this beta

NOT COMPATIBLE WITH IRIS 1.6.5.

NOT COMPATIBLE WITH IRIS 1.6.5.
If you are encountering issues with the shaderpack loading, please update your Iris installation.

Bug Fixes

• Shadows have been fixed when view bobbing is enabled
• Compatibility has been improved with some versions of Linux by using OpenGL's "Core Profile"

NOT COMPATIBLE WITH IRIS 1.6.5.
If you are encountering issues with the shaderpack loading, please update your Iris installation.

This is the Content Creator Edition of Pixel Perfect 1.3.5.

Changes

Added visuals for 1.20 blocks
- New wavy blocks
- Cherry Leaves
- Cherry Saplings
- Pitcher Plants (when not on farmland)
- Torchflowers
- Pink Petals
- The topmost section of twisting vines
- Torchflowers now glow very subtly when "Convert Light Sources to HDR" is enabled, similar to amethyst
- Calibrated sculk sensors now glow properly when activated

This is the Content Creator Edition of Pixel Perfect 1.3.4.

Bug Fixes

• Lots of waving water fixes
• Fixed water geometry showing up under submerged blocks
• Fixed vertical flowing water sometimes overlapping geometry
• Fixed shallow flowing water clipping below the floor
• Fixed shaders not working with some integrated GPUs

This is the Content Creator Edition of Pixel Perfect 1.3.3.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed 1.3.1 using an older version of the hybrid panoramic world setting
• Fixed crash with some GPUs related to array initialization

This is the Content Creator Edition of Pixel Perfect 1.3.2.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Ambient Occlusion clipping when set too high
• Fixed #elif typo as #else if
• Standardized gbuffers across dimensions

This is the Content Creator Edition of Pixel Perfect 1.3.1.

This release adds pixelated shadows, wavy water, revamped presets, and some potion effect and weather related tweaks.

New Features

• Pixelated Shadows are now an official feature and are included in the Vanilla++ preset.
• Wavy Water has been added and is integrated with the advanced wind system - waves move faster and water level rises when raining or thundering.
• Presets: The Vanilla++ preset has been overhauled and now features more neutral colors and pixelated shadows. Vibrant colors can still be enabled by turning on Use LUT and are still on by default in Vanilla+++.
• Clouds are much more transparent, allowing you to see more of the sky (and the ground) through them.
• Ambient Occlusion: While proper AO is still being worked on, the vanilla ambient occlusion setting looks much prettier.
• Blindness: The blindness potion effect has been improved to match vanilla a bit better, and the transition out of blindness is smoother.
• Contrast: The post-processing Contrast option now works on brightness instead of directly on color, meaning cranking it up all the way no longer gives you that "deep-fried" look.
• Invisibility Distortion now has a strength slider.
• Outlines now have a new Outline Everything option - this one is still somewhat experimental.
• Shadow Filtering now has a Bilinear option.
• Wavy Grass: Grass and other wavy blocks now bend downwards when in wind (previously they just stretched sideways).
• Wind Strength has been decreased during calm weather (wavy grass is a bit more subtle).
• End Fog has been slightly dimmed to match the sky color.
• Sweet Berry Bushes are now considered "stiff" by the wind system - this means they won't wave as much as other wavy blocks. The stiffness system is not new, but stiff berry bushes are.

Experimental Features

• Panoramic Worlds: This new setting is intended for ultrawide and/or curved monitors, and adds a panoramic effect to your world to decrease the stretching you see at the edges of your screen at high FOVs.

Bug Fixes

• Block Selection Outlines are finally visible on Iris and partially work on Optifine.

Gallery

Pixelated Shadows

Bilinear Shadows

PCF Shadows (1.2.1)

Presets

Vanilla++ (1.3)

Vanilla++ (1.2.1)

Clouds

1.3

1.2.1

Ambient Occlusion

1.3

Off

1.2.1

Contrast

1.3

1.2.1

Outlines

Outline Everything (Experimental)

Outline Edges

End Fog

1.3

1.2.1

This is the Content Creator Edition of Pixel Perfect 1.3.

Report bugs with this beta

This is the Content Creator Edition of Pixel Perfect 1.2.1.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed clouds on Optifine

This is the Content Creator Edition of Pixel Perfect 1.2.0.

This release adds several new weather-related effects, Iris support, new presets for content creators in the Content Creator Edition of this release, and a few miscellaneous post-processing effects.

New Features

• Iris Support: This shader is now usable in Iris.
• Content Creator Presets: The Content Creator Edition of this release and future releases will include custom presets titled "Streamer", aimed at content creators.
• State-of-the-Art Wavy Grass: Grass is now windy. Not wavy, windy: rather than moving randomly, you can see distinct gust of wind rolling across the terrain - wind also changes dynamically based on the weather, and different dimensions have their own wind patterns.
• Improved Rain: Rain is now much more customizable, can shift in intensity, and tilts in tandem with the wind (rather than in a singular direction, like most shaders).
• Clouds: Clouds now function in both Iris and Optifine, and have nice gradient shading in Iris.
• Better Skies: The overworld and end skies have had a brush-up, both look much better now.
• Lightning Flashes: Lightning now lights up the world. This effect can be scaled down or turned off if needed.
• Water fog now renders outside of water, giving it a nicer look
• Foggy Weather: This optional feature enables occasional foggy weather in your world.
• Clear Water: A new setting allows you to choose between "vanilla" and "clear" water
• Invisibility Distortion: When you're under the invisibility potion effect, this shader will let you know by distorting the edges of your screen. Instead of the standard "chromatic abberation" rainbow effect, however, this distortion affect looks more like printer misalignment.
• Object Outlines: This optional feature highlights the edges of terrain in your world. This effect looks similar to the one in Minecraft Dungeons but is a bit more distinct.
• Lava Variation: The color of lava is now slightly randomized and animated. Several other shaders already did this, most notably Complementary.
• Improved Lighting: Estimated bounce lighting is now incorporated into the light brightness calculations.
• Improved built-in LUT: The default color-correction no longer blows out darker objects and in general looks more appealing.
• White Balance: Control the white balance of the shader - you can now better control the mood you want (or make everything look way too orange, you're in control now.)
• Brighter Nether: If this shader's nether dimension is a bit too moody for your preference, you can turn this setting on to brighten it up.
• Slightly Improved Dithering: This probably won't be noticeable in-game, but dithering should better reflect the true color of an object.
• Custom boss battle colors are now off by default. They can still be enabled, but keep in mind they only work with Optifine due to some restrictions with Iris.

Experimental Features

• Forced Perspective: An effect usually used in 2D animation, this experimental setting adds customizable forced perspective into Minecraft.
• Fast GI: Fakes global illumination/raytracing with a bloom-like effect.

Bug Fixes

• Some transparent objects (such as nametags) no longer affect the lightmap, meaning they look much better.
• Added a "virtual horizon" below which celestial objects will not render. This fixes the "underground moon" effect that happens when the ground is not rendered (for instance in a void world or if the player flies up really high).
• Nighttime lighting now syncs to the phase of the moon.
• Nether fog no longer conflicts with lava fog: When under a lava ocean, the default nether distance fog used to tint the lava fog color. This is no longer the case.
• Fixed a MAJOR oopsie with the Hill ACES tonemapping algorithm - colors are now much more pleasing when using this tonemapper. The built-in colorgrading has been adjusted to reflect this fix.
• A slight issue with a blackbody color function has been fixed. All lighting settings measured in k/kelvin should produce more accurate colors.

Gallery

Wavy Grass

Clouds

Iris

Improved Rain

Rain

Thunder

Foggy Weather

No Fog

With Fog

Water

Clear

Vanilla

Invisibility Distortion

Invisible

Not Invisible

Lava Variation

Subtle

Off

Intense

Intense (Blocky)

Object Outlines

Enabled

Disabled

Improved Lighting

Before

After

Fast GI

Enabled

Disabled

New Features

• Custom bossfight colors: Engage custom color profiles for raid, dragon, and wither fights.
• Improved end: The end is now shaded differently before and after the ender dragon is killed, has more visibility, and is more faithful to vanilla.
• Improved lighting: On the Vanilla++ profile, direct sunlight drops off much more quickly than indirect skylight, allowing for improved shadows.
• Tweaked fog: Fog falloff now uses a more realistic formula.
• Dithering: Prevents the weird color banding that happens when colors gradually transition (ex. the sky).
• Better sunset shadows: The transition from sun to moon shadows (when shadows are enabled) now uses a custom lighting setup instead of briefly switching to Vanilla++ shading.

Experimental Features

• Pixelated Shadows: Pixelates shadows and aligns them with the textures on blocks. Causes some pixels in the shadow to freak out when shadow filtering is disabled.

Changelog Gallery

Bossfight Colors

Raid (no colors)

Raid (with colors)

Wither (no colors)

Wither (with colors)

Ender Dragon (no colors)

Ender Dragon (with colors)

Note: The ender dragon fight now has custom shading already, so the color filter just darkens things a bit.

Improved End

Before (1.0.0)

After (1.1.0)

Ender Dragon Alive

Ender Dragon Defeated

Improved Lighting

Before (1.0.0)

After (1.1.0)

Improved Fog

Before (1.0.0)

After (1.1.0)

Dithering

None

Enabled

None (exaggerated for showcase purposes)

Enabled (exaggerated for showcase purposes)

Improved Sunset Shadows

Disabled (1.0.0)

Enabled (1.1.0)

Pixelated Shadows

Disabled

Enabled

Features

• Levels of Vanilla: Choose the amount of vanilla you want from this pack - the options right now are Vanilla +, Vanilla ++, and Vanilla +++.
• Darkness adjustment: This shaderpack comes with four built-in darkness options, each custom-made for a different playstyle: Hardcore Darkness, Midnight, Normal, and Streamer Mode.
• Custom LUTs: Change the scene's colors with custom lookup tables as you would in a video editor, in real-time.
• Better Fog: Have you ever noticed how Minecraft's fog doesn't work half the time, tinting things light-blue instead of fading them out? Well, this shader fixes that.

Experimental Features

• Shadow Temporal Super-Resolution: significantly improves shadow performance, but causes shadows to flicker when moving.

Gallery

Vanilla Levels

Vanilla +

Vanilla ++

Vanilla +++

Darkness Adjustments

Hardcore Darkness

Midnight

Normal

Streamer Mode

LUTs

None

Built-In

Custom-Made (Imported from File)

Better Fog

Vanilla (For Reference)

Shaders (Vanilla+ Preset)