Ethereal Reborn

Ethereal Reborn is a fantasy shader pack for Minecraft Java Edition, with animated water, reflective lakes, stars, nebulae, and aurora. This is the full edition, including shadows, ambient occlusion, bloom, and foliage animation.

Features

• Sun and moon shadows with soft shadow filtering.
• Water with procedural waves, refraction, depth absorption, and shallow-water light patterns.
• Fresnel and screen-space water reflections. Reflections use visible geometry; scenery outside the screen is supplemented by sky reflections.
• A fantasy night sky with stars, nebulae, and moving aurora.
• Screen-space ambient occlusion, bloom, cinematic tone mapping, color grading, and vignette.
• Waving grass and leaves. Bamboo and sugar cane stay still.
• Japanese and English shader option labels.

Profiles

• BALANCED: 24-step water reflections and reduced post-processing strengths.
• CINEMATIC: the default profile, with 48-step reflections and stronger fantasy effects.
• EXTREME: 64-step reflections and stronger ambient occlusion, bloom, and aurora.

This full edition prioritizes visual effects. Performance depends on GPU, resolution, render distance, and selected profile.

Installation

1. Install a compatible Iris or OptiFine setup for your Minecraft version.
2. Place Ethereal-Reborn-1.0.0.zip in that Minecraft instance's shaderpacks folder. Keep the ZIP compressed.
3. Select the pack in the shader settings. Start with CINEMATIC, or use BALANCED to reduce effect costs.

The full shader programs were run on Minecraft 1.20.4 with OptiFine HD U I7. The pack uses the Iris/OptiFine shader format; other Minecraft versions and Iris setups have not been independently verified for this listing. It is for Java Edition.

Links and license

• Source code
• Issues
• Japanese instructions

MIT license.