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Solas Shader

Shader

by Septonious

A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals

Type

Shader

CurseForge Downloads

29,739,491

CurseForge ID

678384

Modrinth Downloads

16,626,715

Modrinth ID

EpQFjzrQ

Last Updated

Sep 10, 2026

Description

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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

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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.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Iris Optifine

Game Versions

1.12 1.12.1 1.12.2 1.13 1.13.1 1.13.2 1.14 1.14.1 1.14.2 1.14.3 +43 more

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