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Solas Shader

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by Septonious

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

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Shader

CurseForge Downloads

32,684,699

CurseForge ID

678384

Modrinth Downloads

18,551,630

Modrinth ID

EpQFjzrQ

Last Updated

Nov 7, 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

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

Optifine Iris

Game Versions

1.16.3 1.13.1 1.17.1 1.21 1.16.1 1.18.1 1.14.3 1.15 1.16 1.13 +42 more

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Screenshots

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External Resources

CurseForge Modrinth Source Code