Raj's Dynamic lefthand torch

Offhand Torch & Light Addon

Tired of standing in the dark while mining, building, or fighting because your torch is sitting uselessly in your hand? This addon turns torches, lanterns, and a whole range of light-emitting items and blocks into real handheld light sources — hold them, and the area around you lights up immediately, placed or not.

✨ Core Features

Handheld lighting

Holding any of the following items (in either hand) now lights up the space around you, exactly as if the block were already placed:

Torch, Soul Torch, Redstone Torch, Copper Torch

Lantern, Soul Lantern, Copper Lantern (and all oxidation/waxed variants)

Sea Pickle

Glowstone, Sea Lantern, Shroomlight, Jack o'Lantern

Ochre / Verdant / Pearlescent Froglight

End Rod, Crying Obsidian, Glow Lichen, Amethyst Cluster, Magma Block

Each item lights up at its correct in-game light level, so a torch glows differently than, say, an Amethyst Cluster or Magma Block.

Offhand placing

Keep a torch in your offhand and build with a tool or empty mainhand — tap a block and the torch places itself from the offhand, no need to switch items constantly. Smart detection means it won't interfere with opening chests, crafting tables, furnaces, doors, or any other interactive block — sneak-tap those if you specifically want to place a torch on them.

Quick offhand swap

Swap your held item into your offhand (and vice versa) three different ways:

Double-tap sneak (crouch twice quickly)

Use the "Over There" emote

Look straight up at open sky — with no block within 8 blocks above you — and use the item

This works for:

All light items/blocks listed above

Shield

Totem of Undying

Map

Arrows (normal, spectral, tipped)

Firework Rockets

Perfect for quickly switching between a weapon and a shield/totem mid-fight, or keeping a torch ready in your offhand while mining with a pickaxe.

No more annoying stack-splitting

Fixed a vanilla quirk where collected light items would split into stacks of 4 instead of merging into a full stack of 64 — pick up torches without constantly having to re-organize your inventory.

🎮 How to Use

Hold a supported light item in either hand — light appears automatically.

Put a torch/lantern in your offhand, then tap any normal block with an empty mainhand or a tool to place it.

Double-tap Sneak, use the Over There emote, or look straight up at open sky (no block within 8 blocks) and use your item — any of these swaps it with whatever's in your offhand.

📋 Requirements

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.21+ (tested on the latest Copper Update)

Both Behavior Pack and Resource Pack must be enabled

Requires "Beta APIs" experimental toggle to be ON (needed for the scripting features)

⚠️ Known Limitations

Swapping an enchanted Shield, a named item, or a filled Map to the offhand will reset its enchantments/name/map data — this is a technical limitation of how the swap is implemented for non-standard offhand items (like torches and blocks) to work correctly.

Light from held items is a visual/gameplay effect using light blocks — it does not generate real block light sources that persist after you put the item away.

📝 Changelog (v02.10.26)

Added Copper Update items: Copper Torch, Copper Lantern (all variants)

Added glow blocks: Glowstone, Sea Lantern, Shroomlight, Froglights, End Rod, Crying Obsidian, Glow Lichen, Amethyst Cluster, Magma Block

Fixed items not stacking to 64 after collection

Fixed torches/blocks placing themselves on crafting tables, furnaces, chests, and other interactive blocks

Added double-sneak/emote/sky-use swap for Shield, Totem of Undying, Map, Arrows, and Firework Rockets

Fixed items vanishing when swapped to the offhand

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