Solace Shaders
A warm, stylized cartoon shaderpack with glowing light, soft hazy skies and bright foamy water.
!Solace Shaders
A stylized shader pack for Iris. Warm light, a world that moves with the wind, bright water, crisp far views and calm, starry nights.
Discord · Whimscape by kavast (pairs well, separate, not affiliated) · Bobby (recommended)
!About
Solace is a hand-built stylized shader pack that paints Minecraft in warm, soft light. It favours mood over realism, with glowing meadows, bright clear water and slow, colourful skies.
!Features
- Soft cel lighting with cool, colourful shadows instead of black ones
- Light rays and soft bloom filtering through tree canopies
- A world in the wind: grass, flowers, crops, leaves, vines, bamboo, sugar cane, lily pads, cobwebs and hanging lanterns sway with the breeze, and gusts roll across meadows as soft silvery waves
- Glowing light sources: torches, lanterns, candles, glow berries, glow lichen, furnaces, redstone, soul fire and copper lanterns glow and tint their surroundings in their own colour
- Warm light, calm nights: torch light forms warm amber islands, the moon paints a faint silver rim on characters, and fireflies drift over the meadows
- Golden hours: leaves and grass glow gold-green against the low sun, with dappled sunlight under the trees and drifting leaves and cherry petals
- No fog, crisp distance: far land stays clear and keeps its colour, and the edge of the world fades softly into the sky
- Bright stylized water with soft painted highlights on sunlit wave tops, gentle drifting sparkles, wet shores and soft reflections
- Moon glint across the water at night
- Subtle outlines and many effects with their own on/off switch
- Low / Medium / High profiles and detailed settings
!Showcase
!Sunset over the river !Clear water and clouds !Forest lake !Sunrise mist !Night with torches
!Installation
- Install Fabric, Sodium and Iris for Minecraft 26.3.
- Drop the Solace
.zipinto.minecraft/shaderpacks/(don't unzip). - Select Solace Shaders under Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs.
- Pick a profile in Shader Pack Settings.
Compatibility: Minecraft 26.3 · Iris 1.11.7 + Sodium ✅ · Bobby ✅ recommended · Voxy ✅ supported (far LOD land and water get the same cel look) · Distant Horizons ⚠️ not recommended yet · OptiFine not tested · tested on one GPU system so far.
Known issues: foam on narrow streams can look strong.
!Questions?
My FPS is low. What helps?
Use the Low or Medium profile, turn off light rays or shadows, and use Bobby instead of a huge render distance.Do I need Whimscape?
No. Solace works with vanilla textures and any pack; Whimscape just matches the style.Can I use it in videos or modpacks?
Videos and screenshots, including monetized ones: yes, a link back is appreciated. Modpacks: link to this page, don't include the file.License: All Rights Reserved. Free for personal use. Please don't re-upload, redistribute or share modified versions; always link to the official page. Credits: original work by Daemon · screenshots with Whimscape by kavast (not included) · icon font Monocraft by Idrees Hassan (SIL OFL 1.1).