Marigold Shaders

Marigold Shaders is a modified edit of Mellow Shaders, designed to give it a warmer, more polished, and more atmospheric look while keeping a lightweight and accessible design.

It builds on Mellow’s foundation while changing multiple rendering systems, including lighting, colors, atmosphere, water, foliage, and post-processing.

What Changed?

Lighting

• Softer, warmer lighting
• Adjusted intensity and contrast
• Rebalanced sunlight, shadows, and ambient light
• More cinematic look without realism focus

Colors & Atmosphere

• Reworked color grading
• Warmer palette inspired by marigold tones
• Adjusted sky and environment colors
• Improved fog and atmospheric depth
• Tuned day/night and sunrise/sunset visuals

Water

• Improved water visuals
• Added depth and reflections
• Adjusted color and transparency
• Tuned underwater fog and visuals

Shadows

• Reworked shadow appearance
• Softer, better-integrated shadows
• Adjusted behavior to match lighting style

Post-Processing

• Subtle bloom added and tuned
• Reworked exposure and color processing
• Additional visual polish while staying lightweight
• Softer cinematic final image

Goal

Marigold aims to:

Build on Mellow’s lightweight base and shift it toward a warmer, more polished, and more atmospheric visual style.

Marigold is designed to still feel like Minecraft rather than a full visual overhaul.

Performance

Marigold is relatively lightweight compared to more demanding shaderpacks.

It focuses on visual improvement without relying on expensive rendering techniques.

Performance depends on hardware, Minecraft settings, render distance, and installed mods.

Compatibility

Shader Loader: Iris (optifine may or may not work) Recommended: Sodium

Credits

Marigold Shaders is an edit of Mellow Shaders.

Original credit goes to the Mellow Shaders TheCMK, the creator of Mellow.

See the included license and Mellow documentation for permissions and redistribution terms.

Aknowledgements

I would like to thank Velpix for helping me test this shaderpack, and literally all of my other projects, as well as for being a great friend! :D Go check out her shaderpack: Velpix Shaders

Feedback

If you have an issue with the shaderpack, please DM fihmc. on discord (the “.” Is included)

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

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