A shader adding a few neat visual addons like damage effects or blurring water depending on your swim speed. Qwatrum built it as a semi realistic pack. It asks for potato-tier hardware at minimum and works with Iris or OptiFine on Minecraft 1.21.5 – 1.21.5. Licensed MIT, so the download is mirrored right here on MineSpecs — no ads, no redirects.

How to install Visual Addons

1. 1Install a shader loader for Minecraft 1.21.5 — Iris (pairs with Sodium) or OptiFine. Visual Addons is a shaderpack, so it needs a loader to run.
2. 2Download the Visual Addons .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 Visual Addons.

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Performance & what to expect

Visual Addons is rated potato performance impact. It is the lightest tier in the catalogue — it runs on integrated graphics and older laptops. The look is semi realistic.

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Visual Addons is created by Qwatrum and mirrored here under its MIT licence. MineSpecs is an unofficial fan project and is not affiliated with Qwatrum, Mojang Studios or Microsoft.