We get to see a lot of great Minecraft projects being abandoned. Super Duper Vanilla Shaders takes inspiration from a canceled project and attempts to improve the visuals in Minecraft without replacing textures or bumping up their resolution to absurd levels. It is a shader pack that through the magic of lighting, it sets the ambitious goal to make vanilla Minecraft more photorealistic and modern. Lighting plays a very important role when it comes to visuals and Super Duper Vanilla Shaders is a great example of what the Minecraft engine can achieve when pushed. Super Duper Vanilla Shader pack has a very interesting history that ties it to Super Duper Graphics Pack. Super Duper Graphics pack was initially announced at E3 2017. Sadly it was canceled in 2019. Super Duper Vanilla Shaders aims to convey some of the visual style presented by the canceled Super Duper Graphics pack. Released in 2021, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders managed to become one of the most popular shader packs released. It managed to get hundreds of thousands of downloads and keeps on getting constant updates from the developer. Today, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders is being distributed by FlameRender Studios. It still credits user Eldeston for the creation of the pack. While many are satisfied with how vanilla Minecraft looks in terms of visuals, nobody can deny the benefit of using Super Duper Vanilla Shaders. The pack itself was designed to be installed over vanilla without using a resource pack. This is how it was developed in the first place. This means that it preserves the visuals of the game exactly how they were intended but adds a more capable shader and lighting system. With Super Duper Vanilla Shaders installed, several aspects of the game will be changed for the better. The most striking improvement is done for lighting and light flares. The light from the Sun, Moon, fire, and illuminating objects looks considerably better.
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There are stunning solar flares and you can now notice light rays protruding trough the sky and clouds. It looks much closer to how natural light would look. Another important change is the sky texture. Clouds remained the same but the way light is projected onto them is different but for the better. The Sun and Moon are now rounded and emit light in a much more natural way. Looking at the ground, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders introduces new and improved shades and shadows. The shadows projected to the ground are much more realistic in the sense that they better reflect the object that casts the shadow. They are also much smoother. For water, the developer did change the textures to make it much more realistic. The way light behaves in water has been changed. Light is now refracted in water in such a way that it is closer to what you would see in real life. Also, reflections appear much more natural. There are a few other subtle improvements that may be difficult to spot or may go unnoticed. For example, shadows have auto-exposure which makes them look less static. Another example is the weather effects. They have also been improved. Things such as gamma correction and bloom rendering also received much-deserved attention. The new and improved bloom rendering makes sunrise and sunset look stunning. There is no shader pack for Minecraft that would not affect game performance. Shader packs are more taxing than regular resource packs and Super Duper Vanilla Shaders are no exception. They can cause a noticeable framerate drop especially if you are using older hardware. Modern hardware should handle the shader pack just fine. However, if you enjoy how vanilla Minecraft looks, it may be worth sacrificing a few frames per second to have Super Duper Vanilla Shaders installed. It makes the game look great without compromising the original textures. To install Super Duper Vanilla Shaders, you need to use Optifine. Like all shader packs, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders requires access to special features. It will not work if you try to install it manually like a regular resource pack.
Super Duper Vanilla Shaders should be compatible with all of these Minecraft versions: 1.21.4 - 1.21.3 - 1.21.2 - 1.21.1 - 1.21 - 1.20.6 - 1.20.5 - 1.20.4 - 1.20.3 - 1.20.2 - 1.20.1 - 1.20 - 1.19.4 - 1.19.3 - 1.19.2 - 1.19.1 - 1.19 - 1.18.2 - 1.18.1 - 1.18 - 1.17.1 - 1.17 - 1.16.5 - 1.16.4 - 1.16.3 - 1.16.2 - 1.16.1 - 1.16 - 1.15.2 - 1.15.1 - 1.15 - 1.14.4 - 1.14.3 - 1.14.2 - 1.14 - 1.13.2 - 1.13.1 - 1.13
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How to install Super Duper Vanilla Shaders:
- Download and install Minecraft.
- Open Minecraft launcher and setup your game profile for the Minecraft version you want to run. – in the launcher on the top menu, select the “Installations” tab, click “New installation”, under the “Version” dropdown, select your preferred Minecraft version and click “Create”.
- Download and install Optifine or Iris. – we recommend Iris, it’s a bit more optimized;
- Open Minecraft launcher and select the newly created Optifine or Iris profile. – if in step 3 you chose to install optifine it will have an optifine profile, if iris it will have an iris profile;
- Download the Super Duper Vanilla shader pack from the download section below.
- Launch Minecraft.
- For Optifine: Go to
Options > Video Settings > Shadersand click “Shaders Folder” to open shaderpacks folder.
For Iris: Go toOptions > Video Settings > Shader packsand click “Open Shader Pack Folder” to open shaderpacks folder. - Put the Super Duper Vanilla shader pack (.zip file) downloaded in step 5 into the .minecraft\shaderpacks folder you opened in step 7.
- In the game, select Super Duper Vanilla Shaders from the list and click “Done”.
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Comparison slider #1 for those who want to compare vanilla Minecraft without any shaders installed (on the left) with Minecraft using this particular shader pack (on the right).
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Comparison slider #2 for those who want to compare vanilla Minecraft without any shaders installed (on the left) with Minecraft using this particular shader pack (on the right).
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Comparison slider #3 for those who want to compare vanilla Minecraft without any shaders installed (on the left) with Minecraft using this particular shader pack (on the right).
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Super Duper Vanilla Shaders Shader Pack Download
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Before commenting that the resource pack crashed your game, google your crash log. This is usually a graphic card driver issue.
Willy
i see all the water surfaces through walls and blocks
harvs
i cant see the circle on sky of the ender world
Player_123
Why is there always rain can i get help please i don’t want it to rain all of the time
Simon
Beautifull shaders, even though It’s bit too bright to me I’ll try getting used to it
Caspian
Can you make one for pocket edition?
tom
can you make one for bedrock pls?
Gabe
How do you install it?
Admin
On this page you will find the manual.
Ruud
can you guys make it so there is a download button under the title and when you press it you go to the manual that would be pretty helpfull
Admin
We can’t do that. Our current content structure is the best it’s been in 11 years. The page structure we have now forces most (not all, of course) users to scroll and view a lot of important information (like requirements and installation guide) before getting to the download section. But we are always open to ideas, you can always contact us by email. We usually do not approve such comments in order to keep the comments section clean and only comments related to the pack should be here.
Ruud
and where do i put the shader file do i put it in the resource pack folder or data pack folder
Admin
Read the installation instructions on this page, everything is described step by step.
cisterna
why cant u see ppl
Egemega
goood men
hira
the sky its all black idk how to fix it help :(((
Marlon
It’s awesome!
thanks for this shader love it !
abbi
hey! when i put this in the correct folders and everything, it’s just really blurry. is there a setting in-game that i can do to change this?
Diago
Why is everything blue? i never messed with settings and its just all blue
mr light party
how do you make it work i did all videos of how to get minecraft shaders and all i did is do it and it did not work and now this one dat not working for me
berat
this is mod not working
Admin
This is not a mod, it’s a shader pack. It works, just be sure to follow our installation instructions.
Yanto kurniawan
anais so good and yea new graphic
Yoga
hello the new superduper shader vanilla