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Real shaders and 500+ FPS
Catalyst Shaders is now a real shader pack - shadows, clouds, reflections, Nether smoke and a black hole in the End - and the frame cap comes off for 500+ FPS.
- Catalyst Shaders is now a real shader pack: shadows from the sun and the moon, volumetric clouds, water that reflects the sky, natural colours and fog. It is built on Photon by SixthSurge, under its licence, with Catalyst's own additions.
- The Nether fills with grey-brown smoke, lit warm by the lava below - and nothing on screen wobbles any more.
- The End's light is a black hole in a swirling vortex: a white-hot disk round a black shadow in a near-black sky, and the island lit bright and shadowed by it.
- Its settings in the Right Shift menu: Quality from Fast to Ultra, shadows, bloom, motion blur, fog, the Nether's smoke, the black hole and its vortex, and each dimension on or off. Fast, the default, looks almost like High for far more FPS - 91 against 64 on an M4 Pro at 2560x1440. It runs on Macs too. Off until you switch it on, under World.
- 500+ FPS: the game's frame cap (Max Framerate and VSync) comes off once, and EntityCulling, ImmediatelyFast, MoreCulling and BadOptimizations now come with Catalyst. Iris comes too, to run the shaders.
- The launcher's Mods page has Shaders and Texture Packs tabs: every shader and texture pack on Modrinth for your version, one click to add.


