Solas Shader

Solas Shader

A modern fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and stunning visuals

9.1M downloads
Created Apr 9, 2026
by Septonious

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About

  • Solas is a fantasy stylized shaderpack aiming to provide stunning visuals at a moderate performance cost. Screenshots showcasing the shader can be found in the Gallery section.

Important links

  • Discord / Boosty / GitHub / Solas Website

    Discord Boosty (Analogous to Patreon) GitHub Solas Shader Website


Main features

  • Advanced lighting
    • Colored block lighting
    • Realtime shadows without light leaking in caves
    • Cloud shadows
    • Subsurface scattering on certain blocks
  • High quality volumetrics
    • 3D Clouds, crepuscular rays, fireflies, Nether smoke, Ender protoplanetary disk
  • Beautiful sky effects
    • Aurora, Milky Way, Ender Nebula and Black Hole, rainbows
  • Customizable post-processing
    • Fine-tuned tonemapping, bloom, lens flare, chromatic aberration, depth of field, motion blur, tilt-shift
  • Realistic water
    • Procedural waves, caustics, light absorption and refraction
  • Integrated PBR resourcepack
    • Emissive textures, reflective materials and procedurally generated normals
  • PBR resourcepacks support
    • Both LabPBR and OldPBR/SeusPBR formats are supported
    • Turn on "PBR Resourcepack" in shader settings!
  • Mod compatibility
    • Voxy
    • Distant Horizons
    • Iris Shaders (Preferred loader)
    • OptiFine (Custom skyboxes and colored block lighting are not supported)

Credits

  • EminGT and gri573 for improved shadow sampling.
  • SixthSurge for voxelization & light propagation algorithm.
  • Capt Tatsu for antialiasing and a few other pieces of BSL's code.
  • Community members for contributing to Solas in different ways.

Versions

v3.4Latest
1.12.2, 1.13, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.14, 1.14.1, 1.14.2, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, 1.15, 1.15.1, 1.15.2, 1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 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, 1.21.11iris, optifineFeb 27, 2026

**Features added/changed:** ``` + Added screen space ambient occlusion and shadows. Both work on normal terrain, Distant Horizons and Voxy LODs. Screen space shadows also extend the regular shadows even without Voxy or DH. + Reworked planar clouds to look more like real life cirrus clouds + Improved lighting on the ender protoplanetary disk + Improved blending between different sky effects + Improved red aurorae. Now they are way more saturated + Made cloud shadows a bit softer ``` **Features fixed:** ``` + Fixed shader failing to load on versions of Iris below 1.19.2 + Fixed some compatibility errors on 1.12.2 + Fixed volumetric clouds clipping through Voxy LODS + Fixed water artifacts with Voxy + Fixed water disappearing at 2 chunks render distance + Fixed end flashes not working correctly with Voxy + Fixed exponential fog noise taking very weird shapes + Fixed several compilation errors when toggling different options ``` **Features removed:** ``` - 512 shadowmap resolution. It makes no sense, really ```

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v3.3
1.12.2, 1.13, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.14, 1.14.1, 1.14.2, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, 1.15, 1.15.1, 1.15.2, 1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 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, 1.21.11iris, optifineJan 29, 2026

**Features added/changed:** ``` + Added low Earth orbit. Flying to Y=100000 (by default, controlled by the Karman Line slider) will slowly transform the atmosphere into a planet below the player + Added pixelated shadows option + Added Overworld atmosphere options. There will be more of them soon + Improved Ender Black Hole and Protoplanetary Disk + Improved subsurface scattering + Improved LPV fog and increased its contrast and intensity + Adjusted planar clouds lighting ``` **Features fixed:** ``` + Fixed shader failing to compile when setting it to Low profile + Fixed gbuffers_hand error on OptiFine + Fixed exponential fog failing to reach far LODs with Voxy and Distant Horizons + Fixed realtime shadows not working on OptiFine + Fixed crepuscular rays being barely visible ```

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v3.2
1.12.2, 1.13, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.14, 1.14.1, 1.14.2, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, 1.15, 1.15.1, 1.15.2, 1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 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, 1.21.11iris, optifineJan 1, 2026

**Features added/changed:** ``` + Added full support for Voxy mod. In the next Solas update I'll probably add screen space shadows to Voxy and DH LODs. + Remade and greatly improved volumetric clouds for better, more realistic lighting and shapes. Many things are still subject to change, but I'm mostly happy with them. + Completely reworked the Aurora Borealis. It is now much more realistic, dynamic and beautiful. And it's just the beginning so stay tuned! + Added generated emission to handheld and dropped items + Added shooting stars based on @SpacEagle17's implementation + Improved planar clouds lighting and blending + Added support for Colorwheel mod + Added rotating noise to the accretion disk of the Ender Black hole + Added subtle warping to clouds closer to the Ender Black hole to make them look like they're being pulled in + Added options to toggle specular highlights and textured fire/lava. + Added new materials to integrated PBR ``` **Features fixed:** ``` + Fixed some options missing their translations + Fixed multiple compilation errors + Fixed shader not working with Distant Horizons + Fixed nether portals turning green + Fixed Ender Nebula not changing at all when the player travels large distances + Fixed moon phases being mirrorred horizontally ```

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Minecraft: 1.12.2, 1.13, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.14, 1.14.1, 1.14.2, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, 1.15, 1.15.1, 1.15.2, 1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 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

Loaders: iris, optifine

Tags

irisoptifine1.21.71.21.81.21.91.21.101.21.11