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DreamLight Shaders
Modrinth Shader

DreamLight Shaders

A good-performing, dreamy, stylized shader pack with colored lighting and fancy visuals.

Minecraft product info

Important product information

Compatibility, Minecraft versions, loaders, and external source data.

Type

Shader

Access

Free

Latest version

1.5

Downloads

94 366

Loaders / Platforms

iris optifine

Minecraft versions

1.18 – 1.21.11 26.1 26.1.1 26.1.2 26.2

Categories

bloom fantasy vanilla-like

Description

Detailed information

<p style="text-align:left"><strong>ABOUT</strong></p> DreamLight Shaders is a fantasy-inspired, dreamy shader pack designed to bring soft, cinematic lighting and vibrant color tones to Minecraft. Built for both beauty and performance, it transforms your world with warm sunsets, glowing reflections, smooth water, and enhanced skies, all while keeping gameplay fluid and immersive. ![DreamLight Shader](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/5970cfeb7fdc3bf1a9b6c4295903177faca0f558_0.webp) <p style="text-align:left"><span style="color:#843fa1"><strong>🌙 Features</strong></span></p> ● Dynamic lighting with realistic sunrises and sunsets ● Smooth reflections and gentle water waves ● Shoreline foam and underwater caustics ● Enhanced skies and soft clouds for a dreamy look ● Colored global illumination that enhances atmosphere ● Balanced brightness and shadows for natural scenes ● Optimized performance for mid to high-end systems ● Cinematic tone mapping for screenshots and videos ● Depth of Field for cinematic shots ● Glowing nights with subtle ambient lighting ● Four color schemes, including the new **Ethereal** preset ● Three ready-made presets: Fast, Fancy and Fabulous ● Distant Horizons support <p style="text-align:left"><span style="color:#e67e23"><strong>INSTALLATION</strong></span></p> Download and install [OptiFine](https://www.optifine.net/home) or [Iris](https://www.irisshaders.dev/) Download the shaderpack Put the shaderpack inside `.minecraft\shaderpacks` Launch Minecraft Open Options, Video Settings, Shaders Choose DreamLight Shaders ## <span style="color:#3598db">Credits</span> DreamLight Shaders is based on code from [Mellow Shader](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/shaders/mellow) by **TheCMK**, used under the MIT License. Huge thanks to TheCMK for the original creative base and inspiration, go check out Mellow and give it some love. Contrast Adaptive Sharpening © 2023 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (MIT). SMAA by Jorge Jimenez et al. Made by **HoneyStudios**.

Developer

HoneyStudios

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DreamLight Shaders

A good-performing, dreamy, stylized shader pack with colored lighting and fancy visuals.

DreamLight Shaders - SunSet

Sunset view of the shader

DreamLight Shaders - Sunrise

Sunrise view of the shader

Change log

Project versions

Published versions and original Modrinth files.

1.5 Current Release 09.08.2026

DreamLight Shaders 1.5

Supported Minecraft versions
1.18 1.18.1 1.18.2 1.19 1.19.1 1.19.2 1.19.3 1.19.4 1.20 1.20.1 1.20.2 1.20.3 1.20.4 1.20.5 1.20.6 1.21 1.21.1 1.21.2 1.21.3 1.21.4 1.21.5 1.21.6 1.21.7 1.21.8 1.21.9 1.21.10 1.21.11 26.1 26.1.1 26.1.2 26.2
Loaders / Platforms
iris optifine
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1.11 MB

v1.4 Release 09.03.2026

DreamLight Shaders 1.4

Supported Minecraft versions
1.21.11
Loaders / Platforms
iris optifine
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v1.4 Changes: - Improved water rendering with better dual-layer normals and foam edge - Enhanced bloom with luminance-aware mixing and better curve - Better atmospheric fog with improved height falloff - Improved cloud lighting with silver lining effect - Better night sky with enhanced star rendering - Improved SSAO with depth-aware falloff - Enhanced god rays with smoother falloff - New "Ethereal" color scheme (scheme 4) - Optional Depth of Field effect - Various performance optimizations and bug fixes
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1.11 MB

v1.3 Release 19.01.2026

DreamLight Shaders 1.3

Supported Minecraft versions
1.21.11
Loaders / Platforms
iris optifine
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1.11 MB

v1.2 Release 04.12.2025

DreamLight Shaders v1.2

Supported Minecraft versions
1.21.10
Loaders / Platforms
iris optifine
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0.32 MB

v1.1 Release 03.11.2025

DreamLight Shaders v1.1

Supported Minecraft versions
1.21 1.21.1 1.21.2 1.21.3 1.21.4 1.21.5 1.21.6 1.21.7 1.21.8 1.21.9 1.21.10
Loaders / Platforms
iris optifine
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0.32 MB

v1.0 Release 31.10.2025

DreamLight Shaders v1.0

Supported Minecraft versions
1.20 1.21 1.21.7 1.21.8 1.21.9 1.21.10
Loaders / Platforms
iris optifine
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0.33 MB