Simply No Shading

Note: The entity shading removal feature is now stable and does not affect inventory and in-game screen interfaces.

About the Mod

Simply No Shading is a Fabric-based client mod for Minecraft that completely removes the darkening effect from the sides and faces of in-game objects. The mod allows you to disable shadows on blocks, clouds, and various entities, creating flatter and more uniform lighting in the game.

Compatibility

The mod actively supports compatibility with popular mods BedrockIfy and Sodium. It also works correctly with Enhanced Block Entities (EBE), where block entities are treated as regular blocks when configuring shading. However, mods that completely replace the rendering system may be incompatible, except for specially supported options like Sodium. Shaders applied through Iris do not cause crashes but make the mod's effect useless when activated.

Alternative Solutions

There are other ways to remove shading in Minecraft:

• Flat Lighting — a simple Fabric mod with similar functionality for blocks and Sodium support
• internal-shaders — an unlisted Iris shader that removes shadows from blocks and entities
• Lightingless — a shader for removing shading
• Old OptiFine lighting through internal shaders
• New Lighting 1.18+ — a resource pack that achieves a similar effect by disabling the shade flag in block models

Main Features

The mod allows individual control of shading for different object categories:

• Blocks — regular blocks, liquids, and EBE block entities
• Clouds — sky clouds
• Entities (version 7.4.0+) — regular entities and block entities in the world
• Deprecated experimental version — built-in resource pack for blocks, entities, and items in toasts and interfaces

Configuration

Access to mod settings is available in two ways:

• Through hotkey assignment in the "Controls" menu
• Through Mod Menu in the mods section

Configuration is saved in JSON format at: config/simply-no-shading.json

Supported Versions

The mod uses semantic versioning and supports a wide range of Minecraft versions from 1.14.4 to the latest snapshots. Major version changes:

• X — critical configuration format changes
• Y — addition of new features
• Z — bug fixes and compatibility improvements