DreamLight Shaders

⭐ — (64 endorsements) 📥 90,516 downloads 📌 v1.5 📅 11/1/2025
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By HoneyStudios · bloom

⬇ Download Mod Source: Modrinth ↗ 📅 Updated: 8/9/2026 📅 Created: 11/1/2025

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 0.1% endorsement rate
  • 🏆 #8 of 33 bloom mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

<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. !(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 (https://www.optifine.net/home) or (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 (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**.

ABOUT

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. !(https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/5970cfeb7fdc3bf1a9b6c4295903177faca0f558_0.webp)

🌙 Features

● 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

INSTALLATION

Download and install (https://www.optifine.net/home) or (https://www.irisshaders.dev/) Download the shaderpack Put the shaderpack inside `.minecraft\shaderpacks` Launch Minecraft Open Options, Video Settings, Shaders Choose DreamLight Shaders

## Credits

DreamLight Shaders is based on code from (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.

🤖 AI-enhanced — based on mod data

📊 Mod Details

Game
Minecraft Shaders
Author
HoneyStudios
Version
1.5
Downloads
90,516
Endorsements
64
Category
bloom
Created
11/1/2025
Updated
8/9/2026
Game Versions
1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1
Tags
bloom, fantasy, vanilla-like

🔧 How to Install Minecraft Shaders Mods

Download from Modrinth. Use Prism Launcher or drop into your mods folder.

📖 Full step-by-step install guide for Minecraft Shaders →

Visit the official mod page for specific installation instructions for this mod.

🎮 Need cheat codes or console commands? Check ur gaming wiki for Minecraft Shaders commands, item IDs, and more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Which Minecraft Shaders versions does DreamLight Shaders support?

The author lists 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2. Other versions may work but are untested by the author.

What is the latest version of DreamLight Shaders?

Version 1.5, published 2026-08-09 with 90,516 downloads recorded at the source.

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