MakeUp Shaders 1.21.5 is a highly customizable shader pack designed to enhance Minecraft’s visuals while maintaining excellent performance. If you want realistic lighting, smooth shadows, and vibrant colors without the FPS drops of heavier shader packs, MakeUp Shaders is an excellent choice.
Unlike some ultra-realistic shader packs that demand high-end PCs, MakeUp Shaders balances performance and quality, allowing players to fine-tune settings to their preference. Whether you’re a casual builder, survival player, or content creator, this shader pack provides flexibility and stunning visuals without overloading your system.
This guide will cover everything you need to know about MakeUp Shaders 1.21.5, including its best features, installation process, and comparisons to other shader packs. Let’s dive in!
Key Features
- Highly Customizable Settings: Adjust lighting, bloom, shadows, and more to fit your needs.
- Realistic Water & Reflections: Improved water transparency, smooth reflections, and realistic movement.
- Dynamic Lighting & Shadows: Soft shadows and ambient lighting for a more immersive experience.
- Balanced Performance: Runs smoothly on mid-range and even lower-end PCs.
How To Download MakeUp Shaders 1.21.5
This Minecraft Shader is fully compatible with Minecraft 1.21.5 and previous versions. Please follow the steps below:
- Scroll down, you will find the downloads section. There is the MakeUp Shaders link.
- You have to choose now if you want to do this with Optifine or with Iris.
- In the downloads section, you can find two different links. Click on both links, it will lead you to two different websites.
- Download both files. The first file would be Optifine 1.21.5 and then the shaderpack.
- Let me guide you through.
- Click on the first link.
- You will be immediately taken to the website where you will download the shader. Take a look on the right.
- You should see the section with “Downloads”.
- Choose the right Minecraft version and hit “Download“.
- Click on the second link and do the same with Optifine or Iris.
- After you have both files, you need to take them and drop them on the desktop.
- For in-depth tutorial on this, check out my How To Install Shaders in Minecraft tutorial.
How To Install MakeUp Shaders 1.21.5
The first thing you will do is to double-check that you have the Shaders and Optifine 1.21.5 on the desktop.
- Please go to the Windows Search Bar. It’s located in the middle bottom of your screen.
- Type in %appdata% and hit “search” or enter.
- A new window will pop up, it’s the roaming folder.
- There should be “.Minecraft” folder, find it and open it.
- Scroll down and find “shaderpacks” folder, open it.
- When you are in there, take MakeUp Shaders 1.21.5 and drop it there.
- What should we do with Optifine now? It’s easy.
- Get back to the desktop and then double-click on the installation file.
- First thing you should do is to read the information, when you are ready, hit install.
- Finally, open Minecraft Launcher.
- Choose Optifine version and hit play.
- When you get to the Minecraft menu, go to the “Options” -> “Video Settings” -> “Shaderpacks”.
- Simply double-click on the shaderpack, when you do that, the shaderpack is enabled.
- Hit “Done” and go enjoy your new look of the game!