Photon Shaders for Minecraft 1.21.5 → 1.21.5.4, 1.19.4

Ever heard of Photon Shaders for Minecraft 1.21.5? This is the type of Minecraft Shaders that you definitely need to try out. After three years of work, the developer of Photon Shaders has finally released his pack, which significantly alters the visuals of Minecraft. What caused it to take so long? He kept creating the shader from the ground up, altering the artwork each time to bring it closer to perfection. That’s really crazy, isn’t it? However, the wait was worthwhile, as this shader pack is now becoming better every time it is updated.

The completely redesigned water engine, lighting, and sky are some of Photon Shaders’ more notable features. The landscapes are well-composed and stunning, and if you enjoy stargazing, you will adore the Milky Way at night. The daily changes to the randomized weather skies during one of our in-game tests left us completely amazed. Though there is one thing to keep in mind, the volumetric clouds appear to be quite noisy when viewed from above. In contrast, the Photon shader pack provides a “blocky clouds” option that makes use of the native cloud map in Minecraft, much like Nostalgia or Complementary shaders.

How To Download Photon Shaders for Minecraft 1.21.5

This Minecraft shaderpack is fully compatible for Minecraft 1.21.5 and the rest of the previous versions. Follow the steps below:

Let’s get right into this! Scroll down until you get to the downloads section. There is the Photon link.
You have to choose now if you want to do this the Optifine way or the Iris way. For this Minecraft Tutorial, I’ll use Optifine.
There are two different links. Each of them is for something different, click on both please.
Let’s download both of the files. And that is Optifine and the shaderpack itself, let me tell you what to do.
Click on the first link please.
After that, it will take you to the redirection website, when you get there, click on the link again.
You are finally on the right website where you need to be, look at the right side please.
There is a section that we will use, and that is the “Downloads”.
Make sure you choose the right Minecraft version and hit “Download”.
Now just take both of the files and drop it on the desktop.
Let’s repeat the steps on the second file as well.
If you want more in-depth tutorial, I have on on How To Install Shaders in Minecraft. Check it out if you want.

How To Install Photon Shaders in Minecraft 1.21.5

Let’s double-check if you have Optifine and Shaders on the desktop, otherwise, this won’t work.

Take a look on the left-down corner of your screen, there is a Windows Search Bar. Open it.
Type in %appdata% and then hit enter.
The roaming folder will pop up.
Find “.Minecraft” folder and open it.
When you are there, scroll down to find the “shaderpacks” folder and then simply open it.
Now, take Photon Shaders 1.21.5 and drop it in there.
You may ask, what to do with Optifine? I’ll show you.
Go back to the desktop and double-click on the file.
Read all the info and when you are ready, hit install.
Open the Minecraft Launcher, open it.
Choose Optifine, hit play.
Once you get to the Minecraft Menu, go to Options -> Video Settings -> Shaderpacks.
Double-click on the shaderpack that you’ve just installed, it will enable that.
You can now click “Done” and that is everything.