Atmospheric lighting, skies, and natural landscapes. Aerial is a realistic / vanilla-like pack from xsoras, bringing atmosphere, colored lighting, PBR and shadows to your world. It targets medium-tier hardware and up and runs through Iris or OptiFine on Minecraft 1.17 – 26.2. Licensed Apache-2.0, so the download is mirrored right here on MineSpecs — no ads, no redirects.

How to install Aerial

1. 1Install a shader loader for Minecraft 1.17 – 26.2 — Iris (pairs with Sodium) or OptiFine.Aerial is a shaderpack, so it needs a loader to run.
2. 2Download the Aerial .zip from the button above — keep it zipped. It is mirrored on MineSpecs, so there is no ad-gate or redirect.
3. 3Drop the .zip into your .minecraft/shaderpacks folder (%appdata%\.minecraft\shaderpacks on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/shaderpacks on macOS).
4. 4Launch the game, open Options → Video Settings → Shaders, and select Aerial.

Performance & what to expect

Aerial is rated medium performance impact. It wants a mid-range dedicated GPU. Drop render distance a few chunks if you fall below 60 FPS. It renders atmosphere, colored lighting, pbr and shadows. The look is realistic and vanilla like. Because it supports PBR, it looks its best with a matching texture set — browse our free resource packs for one with normal and specular maps.

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Aerial is created by xsoras and mirrored here under its Apache-2.0 licence. MineSpecs is an unofficial fan project and is not affiliated with xsoras, Mojang Studios or Microsoft.