Radiant — Horizon shader pack

Radiant's author describes it as a cinematic pack built to be played in, not just screenshotted. It leans hard into light and atmosphere: low sun through the trees, golden haze, layered sunsets, wet dark ground when it rains. Good for builders who want their base to look its best, for video makers, and for slow-paced survival with a view. The registry tags it "realistic" and "high", so plan on a decent GPU.

Features

• Light and shadow: soft sun and moon shadows, light through leaves, coloured block light, flickering torches, ambient occlusion.
• Sky: deep blue days, gold, pink and violet sunsets, a round sun, drifting clouds, twinkling stars and a faint Milky Way.
• Light shafts: god rays through canopies and sun shafts from a low sun, and from the moon at night.
• Atmosphere: golden haze toward a low sun, morning mist, clear water when you dive, heat shimmer over lava.
• Water: refraction, reflections, a sun path that hides behind hills, glitter, shore foam and raindrop rings.
• Rain: darker wet ground with a sheen, spreading puddles, see-through rain.
• Camera: filmic highlights, eye adaptation, five looks, bloom and optional lens effects.

Compatibility and install

Shader pack, version 1.0.0, for Minecraft 26.3. Install it from the Shader packs tab on the launcher's Mods page; it ends up in the shaderpacks folder. Then select it under Options > Horizon Settings > Shader Packs. Step by step: our shader install guide.

Limitations

The performance figures are the author's, not ours. Horizon's shader API is still 0.1 and experimental, so updates to the game can break things. MIT licensed.