Realistic Dark
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.0% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #89 of 223 atmosphere mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Attempts to faithfully recreate how your actual, real-life eyes see in the dark rather than just turning down the brightness
In the dark, saturation (colorfulness) is completely lost, what you see becomes blurrier and noisier (configurable in the shader settings), and the darkest color defaults not to true black, but to eigengrau (also configurable). I'm not too experienced with writing specifically Iris/Oculus shaders, so the light areas are also different from vanilla in this shader, but I think it nevertheless looks good :)
I've only tested this shader on 1. 19. 2 (same version as the (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/dread-arrenek); not a coincidence), but it should probably work on other versions of Minecraft that Iris/Oculus support.
Inspiration from (https://youtu.be/u9X7SHarZQg?is=d_4rtc2jUYK8SrBx).
Remember to install either (https://modrinth.com/mod/iris) (if you're on Fabric) or (https://modrinth.com/mod/oculus) (if you're on Forge). This shader will _not_ work without one of those.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Minecraft Shaders
- Author
- dairycultist
- Version
- 1.0
- Downloads
- 5,117
- Endorsements
- 2
- Category
- atmosphere
- Created
- 6/29/2026
- Updated
- 6/25/2026
- Game Versions
- 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1
- Tags
- atmosphere, low, semi-realistic
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Which Minecraft Shaders versions does Realistic Dark support?
The author lists 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2. Other versions may work but are untested by the author.
What is the latest version of Realistic Dark?
Version 1.0, published 2026-06-25 with 5,117 downloads recorded at the source.
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