💡 Dynamic Item Lighting

Items that should glow in Minecraft now actually light up the world around you: torches, lanterns, glowstone, lava buckets and many more. Hold one in your hand or drop it on the ground, and it lights up the area around it.

Version 5 · Made for Minecraft Bedrock 26.50 · No Experimental toggles required

✨ Features

• 🔦 Held items light up – hold a torch, lantern or any other light-emitting item and the area around you brightens. The light follows you as you move.
• 🪙 Dropped items glow too – an item lying on the ground keeps lighting its surroundings until you pick it up.
• 🎚️ Different brightness for every item – levels match the vanilla light levels, so a lantern is much brighter than a candle.
• 🖐️ "Left hand" slot – put a light-emitting item in your 9th hotbar slot and it keeps glowing even while you hold something else in your hand.
• 🧠 Smart light – if several light sources are on you, the brightest one is used.

🕯️ Which items glow?

Level 15 (brightest): Lantern, Copper Lanterns (all oxidation stages and waxed), Glowstone, Sea Lantern, Shroomlight, Froglights, Jack o'Lantern, Lava Bucket, Campfire, Beacon, Conduit, Redstone Lamp, Respawn Anchor

Level 14: Torch, Copper Torch, End Rod, Glow Berries

Level 10: Soul Torch, Soul Lantern, Soul Campfire, Crying Obsidian, Nether Star, Blaze Rod

Level 7: Redstone Torch, Glow Lichen, Enchanting Table, Ender Chest

Level 6–4: Sea Pickle, Blaze Powder, Sculk Catalyst (6) · Amethyst Cluster (5) · Large Amethyst Bud, Glowstone Dust (4)

Level 3–1 (soft light): Magma Block, Fire Charge, Magma Cream, Candles of all colors (3) · Medium Amethyst Bud (2) · Brewing Stand, Dragon Egg, Glow Ink Sac, Small Amethyst Bud, Brown Mushroom, Sculk Sensor, Calibrated Sculk Sensor, Eye of Ender (1)

📥 Installation

1. Download the .mcaddon file and open it – Minecraft will import it automatically.
2. Create a new world (or edit an existing one) and add Dynamic Item Lighting under Behavior Packs.
3. Join the world and hold a torch. That's it!

If you had an older version installed, remove it from the Storage settings first.

⚠️ Good to know

• The item itself does not become brighter – the addon lights the space around it.
• Light does not appear underwater.
• Bedrock does not allow vanilla items in the real off-hand slot, so the 9th hotbar slot works as the "left hand". The item is not shown in the character's left hand.

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