So you want to know how to get shaders for minecraft on mac well in this video we’re going to show you how to install awesome shaders packs like cylinders vibrant shaders and chocolate pick 13. we’re going to show you how to install those and any other shaders pack you Want we’re also going to be talking about what to do if you have an m1 mac versus you having a intel bass mac right so if you have an m1 or m2 mac versus an intel bass mac what do you do in that case lastly we’re also going to go over How to get optifine which is required for shaders and even what to do if you have troubles opening optifine this really is an in-depth guide but before we get into it here’s a message from our sponsor apex minecraft hosting go to the first link down below the breakdown dot Xyz slash apex start an incredible 24-hour dns protected minecraft server for you and your friends we love just about so much we asked our own server playdoughbreakdowncraft.com on them and they really are the simplest 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be soldered to do that click the green download button takes you off to a dedicated tutorial on how to Install shaders just scroll down and click the yellow download shielders button once you do that it’s going to take you here where you want to download the version you want in my case i’m going to download the medium because i think that’s what works best it’s going To take us off to add focus and if you land on a page like ad focus stop don’t click anything on this page whatsoever just click the red skip button that’s going to appear in the top right after about 10 seconds there it is click that it takes you to the official download Page where you can scroll down and click download on the right hand side finally the download will begin after a few seconds where you may need to keep or save the file or allow the file to download depending on basically your security settings now there’s one more Pack i want to download here and that is going to be chock-a-pick 13. the reason for that is it’s a bit different than cylinders when it comes to installing there’s basically two ways you could have to install packs and by doing both of these we’ll show you both let’s go Ahead and click on the green download button takes you here or you want to scroll down click on that shaka pic 13 download button there and the download process here takes you directly to curseforge where again you want to download it on the right hand side and By the way if shaders packs are older that’s perfectly fine shaders honestly never need to be updated if they’re a good shaders pack because they just kind of work unless the download is done there and we need to download one more thing optifine optifine is what allows Us to install all these awesome shaders packs and actually use them in minecraft so you can find optifine links in the description down below along with everything else and once you’re here you want to scroll down and click on that download optifine button once you’ve done that you’ll be taken to Optifine’s official download page where you can see minecraft 1.18.1 here now you want to make sure that’s whatever version of minecraft you want in our case it is 1.18 for you it might be 1.19 or 1.20 nevertheless click the mirror link under the version listed under the Version of minecraft you want and then it will take you to that version’s download page once you’re here click on the download button to finally download optifine again you may need to allow or keep the file depending on your browser we can now minimize our browser and we Want to drag and drop all of these to our desktop this should be found in your downloads here optifine is then we want to go ahead and drag and drop chocopic and shaders is actually cylinders shaders and i’m going to rename that just because well we don’t want Confusion later on right we want to make sure that we know what this is so there’s silvers first things we need to do is install optifine to do that double click on optifine and then it’s going to give you this warning it’s a unidentified developer that’s perfectly normal it is A hundred percent safe so go ahead and click ok here then go to system preferences right there system preferences and then go to security and privacy then you want to click on general at the top and make sure right down here you’ll see optiphone 1.18.1 go ahead and click open anyway it’s 100 Safe you’ll get one more warning and i promise it is safe click open and optifine is going to open you can close out of security and privacy once you’re in here you want to go ahead and just click install and optifine will automatically install as you can see i’ve defined successfully installed the Only reason it won’t work at this point is if one of two things you’d got an error that said java runtime environment right not available and if that’s the case i’ll show you how to fix that or you haven’t played minecraft 1.18.1 yet or whatever version of optifine you’re Installing so go play minecraft first see if that works come back see if you can open up optifine and if you can’t here’s what you need to do you need to go get java for your mac luckily we have an in-depth guide here on how to download and install java on mac Specifically java 17 right java 17 is required for minecraft mods such as optifine forge and any other forge mod out there as well as running a minecraft server you need java 17 to do everything outside of playing minecraft on your mac there will be a video tutorial here by The time this video is up now let’s go ahead minimize our browser here and again you should be able to now double click on optifine open it and click install and if you do have issues installing it’s because you need to go play minecraft come back and this will Work nevertheless we can now go ahead and get shaders installed you can delete optifine from your desktop to do that you want to open up minecraft here and then once we’ve got minecraft open we want to go ahead and select our optifine profile right now for me it’s Going to have one automatically and it’ll probably have one for you as well you can see there it is automatically selected if that’s the case click play click play again if it’s automatically selected click this little arrow here and select it from this list but if optifine isn’t in this list this is Where it gets tricky click on installations up here at the top and make sure modded is checked as you can see you can check modded it goes away check on modded and there’s optifine click play and click play again but lastly if you still don’t have optifine Go ahead and click new installation here you can name whatever you want i’m gonna name it play.breakdowncraft.com visits are incredible minecraft survival and skyblock server it’s the best out there just come play on it it’s amazing nevertheless the version right here want to click that drop down box and click Release 1.18.1 optifine yours may be down a little bit so you may have to scroll but mine was at the top now we want to go ahead change the resolution you don’t have to i’m just doing it so we can see once we get in game and click Create now we have this new playerbreakdowncraft.com profile that has optifine under it that’s the most important part click play click play again and now minecraft is going to open up with optifine the hard part’s over now all we need to do is install our shaders packs here right that’s it just Get these shaders packs installed so here we go minecraft is open we can go ahead and click on options video settings and then we want to go ahead and click on shaders then we want to click on the shaders folder in the bottom left and that’s going to open up The shaders packs folder minimize minecraft in the background so you can easily access your shaders then what we want to do is actually not drag and drop these in here what we want to do is right click on our shaders pack and click compress now specifically silvers We want to do that that’s because if you open up cylinders you see all this random files if that’s what you see when you open up your pack right click on it and click compress like we just did however if you don’t see that when you Open up your pack like you don’t with chocolate pick you see this this is basically all the versions of chocolate pick shaders that you can install what you want to do in this case is just drag and drop the zip file to your desktop because that is actually what needs to Be installed not the file you downloaded nevertheless once you’ve got these as zip files your shaders have to be zip files to work you want to take and drag and drop them into the shaders packs folder if you get this warning saying you’re moving about icloud do that You’ll want to do that actually so it’s perfectly fine to do that nevertheless once you’ve got these in here and they are zip files again just right click and compress in order to get them into zip files if they aren’t already you can come back to minecraft and they’ll be There boom here they are we have both the medium version the low version and the silver’s version of shaders here now one of the things i will say is with mac os you will have all kinds of weird issues and bugs to work out so if we go Ahead and jump in game here it’ll probably be pretty bright that can be fixed by playing with shaders options and i’ll show you how to do that here once we do get in game but we need to get in game for me to kind of show you what i mean Now that is unfortunately as you can see very bright very dark kind of weird these can be fixed by going into options video settings shaders and then clicking shaders options in the bottom right here you can change all sorts of stuff i’m not going to work through these issues Here but if you look it up online and google some you’ll be able to find different fixes that you can make for m1 max again you’ll probably have less issues on non-m1 max intel based macs things like cylinders for example look pretty decent but can have things like The wavy grass isn’t working as well and things like that that can also be chip fixed and changed in the shaders options so there you have it that is how you can get shaders in minecraft on your mac if you have any questions let us know in The comment section down below and be sure to subscribe for more awesome minecraft videos for max and things like shaders and mods and all of that stuff my name is nick this is the breakdown and i’m out peace Video Information
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How can you download Minecraft shaders on Mac? Well, in this video, we show you exactly how to get shaders in Minecraft for MacOS. This means that you will be able to make Minecraft look truly incredible on your Mac by increasing shadows, improving lighting, and just overall making Minecraft look great using shaders for MacOS!
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About this video: Shaders for Minecraft on MacOS are one of the best ways to make Minecraft look better on your Mac. However, there can be some issues for M1 based Macs as there are a lot of shaders packs that simple do not work well with the M1 chip. The good news is that we have an M1 Mac, and we have marked shaders packs as Mac compatible on our website. This means that you can use these shaders packs in confidence knowing they will work on your M1 Mac. If you have an Intel Mac, there is less of a concern, and you will be able to use more shaders packs. So, without anymore delay, here is how to download shaders for MacOS Minecraft.
The first step of getting shaders on your Mac is actually downloading and install Optifine. The good news is that we have a complete guide on how to get Optifine for MacOS shaders in the description above. It goes over every single step of how to download, install, and fix issues you may have when installing Optifine for MacOS. Optifine is required to run shaders on a Mac.
With Optifine downloaded and installed, it is time to move on to how to download shaders packs for Minecraft on Mac. Shaders packs are how shaders actually works in Minecraft. They dictate what the lighting and shadows look like, and they are there reason that shaders look different depending on who is using them. Linked above, you will find a list of 10 shaders packs. Those that are MacOS compatible will be marked. However, if you have an Intel Mac you can use any shaders pack from the list. When you find a shaders pack you want download for your Mac, click the green download button under it and go through the download process.
Before we can install our shaders though, we need to make sure they are .zip files. Only shaders formatted as .zip will be able to work with Minecraft, so if your shaders pack was unzipped when it was downloaded, make sure to right-click it and click ‘Compress’ This will rezip the file.
Next, we need to open up Minecraft with Optifine. Do this buy opening the Minecraft Launcher, click the arrow next to the play button, selecting Optifine, clicking Play, and then clicking Play again. This will open up Minecraft Mac with Optifine installed.
Once Optifine is open on your Mac, click on Options, Video Settings, and Shaders. Then, click ‘Open Shaders Folder’ in the bottom right. Your shaders folder will open. Now, all you need to do to install shaders on Mac OS is drag-and-drop the shaders files you downloaded into this folders. Remember thought that they must be .zip files. Finally, when you go back to Minecraft on Mac your shaders will be there. Click them, and click done to get the activate the shaders.
Congrats! You now know how to download and install Minecraft shaders on macOS. If you have any questions about how to download shaders for Mac, let us know in the comments. We will try our best to help you out. However, if we did help you install Shaders on your Mac for Minecraft, please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven’t already. It really helps us out, and it means a ton to me. Thank you very, very much in advance!
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