Enjoy beautiful lighting, soft shadows, and realistic water in Minecraft with great performance — perfect for both low-end and high-end devices. A realistic pack by Typon featuring shadows, tuned for low-tier hardware and better. Compatible with Iris and OptiFine across Minecraft 1.8 – 1.21.11. Licensed LGPL-3.0-only, so the download is mirrored right here on MineSpecs — no ads, no redirects.

How to install Butter Shaders

1. 1Install a shader loader for Minecraft 1.8 – 1.21.11 — Iris (pairs with Sodium) or OptiFine. Butter Shaders is a shaderpack, so it needs a loader to run.
2. 2Download the Butter Shaders .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 Butter Shaders.

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Performance & what to expect

Butter Shaders is rated low performance impact. It is comfortable on entry-level dedicated GPUs at a normal render distance. It renders shadows. The look is realistic.

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Butter Shaders is created by Typon and mirrored here under its LGPL-3.0-only licence. MineSpecs is an unofficial fan project and is not affiliated with Typon, Mojang Studios or Microsoft.