Aurora Fantasy is a Minecraft shader pack designed to transform your world into a magical, dreamlike, and cinematic atmosphere. It focuses on vibrant fantasy lighting, glowing night fireflies, rich colors, and enchanting night skies featuring the Northern Lights (Auroras).

Bug Fixes & Compatibility

Player Underwater Visibility: Fixed a bug where players were invisible underwater when viewed by other players in Minecraft version 26.2.

Distant Horizons in The End: Fixed an issue where the shader did not work in The End dimension in Minecraft 26.2 when using the Distant Horizons mod.

Night Visibility & Rain: Improved night visibility and fixed rain display issues at night.

Aurora During Rain: Fixed a glitch where the Aurora sky effect remained visible during rain at night.

Features & Improvements

Glowing Night Fireflies: Magical fireflies that light up the environment at night (includes an option to disable them in settings).

Rain Puddles: Redesigned rain puddles with higher visual quality, along with an option to disable them completely.

Enhanced Rain Atmosphere: Improved rain drop visuals and overall atmospheric effects during day and night rain.

New Sun & Moon: Completely redesigned sun and moon for a much better fantasy look.

Simplified Profiles: Streamlined graphics settings into two main profiles: Balanced and Extreme.

General Tweaks: Various performance optimizations and minor bug fixes.

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Ethereal Nights & Fireflies: Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), realistic stars, and magical glowing fireflies transforming the night sky.

Atmospheric Clouds: Dynamic clouds and soft fog adding depth and life to the horizon.

Living Water & Refined Rain: Realistic waves, crisp water reflections, clear rain droplets, and dynamic rain puddles.

Modern Reflections: High-quality Screen Space Reflections (SSR) on water and wet surfaces for a polished visual style.

Immersive Weather: Realistic dust and sandstorms in desert biomes during rain.

Excellent Performance: Built to run efficiently across a wide variety of hardware setups.

Ultra-Distance Support: Compatibility with large-scale rendering mods such as Distant Horizons (toggleable in shader settings).

Simplified Graphics Profiles: Quick choice between Balanced and Extreme presets.

Balanced Profile

Minecraft 26.1.2 and Older:

NVIDIA GTX 1050 (or equivalent): Runs significantly smoother, delivering 40 to 60 FPS (~50 FPS average).

Minecraft 26.2 (More Demanding)

NVIDIA GTX 1050 (or equivalent): Delivers approximately 30 to 40 FPS on average.

NVIDIA GTX 1660 (or equivalent): Delivers approximately 40 FPS on average.

Extreme Profile

Minecraft 26.2 (More Demanding)

NVIDIA GTX 1660 (or equivalent): Delivers approximately 35 FPS on average.

(Note: Higher-end GPUs are recommended to reach 60 FPS on Minecraft 26.2 under the Extreme profile).

If you enjoy Aurora Fantasy and want to support its development, you can leave a tip on Patreon.

(This is purely optional support—everything remains free for everyone!)

👉 Support on Patreon

KDXavier: Original Creator of MakeUp - Ultra Fast shader

in2bubble: Shader Modifications for Aurora Fantasy

Entokito: Additional shader code (used under LGPL v3.0)

Simon Rodriguez: FXAA 3.11 anti-aliasing algorithm

License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL v3.0)

Original GitHub (Unmodified Fork): MakeUpUltraFast

Modified GitHub Repository: Aurora-Fantasy

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