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Phoxel PT Shaders for Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21

[WIP] A Minecraft shader that strives to capture some of the beauty of real life, mixed with the unique ambience and blocky beauty of the Minecraft we've all come to love

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This shader is still in beta, expect to encounter issues, because you will. When you do come across issues, let me know about it! I am actively working on improving and fixing up Phoxel, and your help will make it a lot easier

Phoxel PT — screenshot 3

About Phoxel

Phoxel was started because of a lack of publicly available path tracing shaders for Minecraft, and was originally meant to be purely vanilla in it's style. But with the 0.6 re-release, Phoxel is starting to take on it's own visual style, and I now strive for Phoxel to capture some of the beauty of real life, mixed with the unique ambience and blocky beauty of the Minecraft we've all come to love

Phoxel currently covers two shaders: Phoxel PT, and Phoxel Lite, some info will differ between the two. All new releases and features will come out on Phoxel PT before Phoxel Lite, but Phoxel Lite will have a few features before Phoxel PT, purely because some features are much easier to implement without path tracing

Phoxel PT — screenshot 4

Phoxel PT

Phoxel PT is designed for screenshots, if you want to use Phoxel for gameplay, please check out Phoxel Lite (Not yet available)

Phoxel PT is the original, with the goal of eventually capturing Phoxel, with it's core philosophy, at it's absolute best. (with some render time of course :P)

Extra Info

Report issues, make suggestions, and see up coming updates for the project on Github. See events, ask questions, and do more in the Discord

How to install Phoxel PT

With Millida Launcher

  1. Install Millida Launcher

    The launcher is free: download it at millida.net/launcher and sign in with any nickname.

  2. Click “Install” on this page

    The launcher opens and installs the shaders for Minecraft 1.21–26.1.2 automatically.

  3. Launch the game

    A profile with it appears in the launcher: click “Play”.

Manually

  1. Install Iris

    Without a shader mod the game cannot see shaders. Install it for the same Minecraft version.

  2. Download the shader archive

    Pick the file Phoxel 0.6 Rerelease Patch 1.zip (3.8 MB) and do not unpack it.

  3. Put it in the shaderpacks folder

    “Options”, then “Video Settings”, then “Shader Packs”, then “Open Shader Pack Folder”, and drag the archive there.

  4. Select the shaders

    In the same window, click the pack name and “Apply”.

Versions

With dependencies

MinecraftLoaderFileActions
26.1Iris26.13.8 MB 1
1.21Iris1.2125 KB 2

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