Soft Voxels Lite is RRe36's path-traced pack with the excess removed — real global illumination and voxel-based coloured lighting, budgeted so it stays playable on mid-range hardware instead of being a screenshot-only curiosity. It is one of the more approachable ways to see what path tracing does to Minecraft's lighting. All Rights Reserved, so download it from the official page.

How to install Soft Voxels Lite

1. 1Install a shader loader for Minecraft 1.16 – 1.20.1 — Iris (pairs with Sodium) or OptiFine.Soft Voxels Lite is a shaderpack, so it needs a loader to run.
2. 2Download the Soft Voxels Lite .zip from the button above — keep it zipped. RRe36’s licence doesn’t permit re-hosting, so that button takes you to the official modrinth.com page — always the newest build, straight from the author.
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 Soft Voxels Lite.

Performance & what to expect

Soft Voxels Lite 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 colored lighting and path tracing. The look is semi realistic.

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Soft Voxels Lite is created by RRe36 and published under its own All Rights Reserved terms. We link to the author’s official download rather than mirroring it — the pack is theirs, and its licence asks that it stay that way. MineSpecs is an unofficial fan project and is not affiliated with RRe36, Mojang Studios or Microsoft.