Glowing Glint (a.k.a. GG)

Is a lightweight, behavior-only dynamic lighting add-on designed for survival. It makes Shields, Totems, and 30+ other items emit light when held, ensuring you’re never left in the dark—especially when your hands are full fighting mobs!

The add-on works without custom entities, resource pack dependencies, or modifications to vanilla blocks/items, keeping your world's "vanilla" feel intact.

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MAIN FEATURE

Player

- Player Light: Detects items in both mainhand and offhand. If you hold two light sources, the highest level wins out.

Burning Mobs

- Burning Mobs: Any mob (or player) currently on fire will illuminate their surroundings.

Magma

- Glow Mobs: Native emissive support for Blaze (15), Glow Squid (9), Allay (6), Warden (5), and Magma Cubes (scaling 5–15 based on size).

Item dropped

- Item Drops: Dropped items emit light based on their type.

Underwater

- Full Dimensional Support: Works across all 3 dimensions, including underwater.

- Spyglass Effect: Using a spyglass will brightens your vision.

You can CHOOSE between:

Light Block Mode

OR

Simple Night Vision effect

NEW IN VERSION 1.1.3

- Flashlight: Holding a Spyglass now lights up the direction you're looking, perfect for deep caving!

DEFAULT IS OFF

Turns it on in the config menu.

⚠️ Note for Light Block mode: Due to Bedrock Scripting API limitations, illumination is capped within a 64-block radius of the player.

Supported Items:

const LEVEL_15 = [

"beacon",

"campfire",

"end_rod",

"froglight",

"glowstone",

"lantern",

"lava_bucket",

"lit_pumpkin",

"sea_lantern",

"shroomlight",

"torch",

"blaze",

];

const LEVEL_12 = [

"shield",

"totem_of_undying",

];

const LEVEL_11 = [

"enchanting_table",

"magma",

"sea_pickle",

"soul_campfire",

"soul_lantern",

"soul_torch",

"blaze_rod",

];

const LEVEL_9 = [

"glow_squid",

];

const LEVEL_8 = [

"amethyst_cluster",

"firefly_bush",

"redstone_block",

"redstone_ore",

"redstone_torch",

"sculk",

"blaze_powder",

];

const LEVEL_7 = [

"glow_lichen",

];

const LEVEL_6 = [

"allay",

];

const LEVEL_5 = [

"warden",

"nether_star",

"end_crystal",

"diamond",

];

const LEVEL_3 = [

"breeze_rod",

"crying_obsidian",

"enchanted_golden_apple",

"experience_bottle",

"fire_charge",

"glow_berries",

"glow_ink_sac",

"magma_cream",

"open_eyeblossom",

"redstone",

And any item with glint effect (such as Enchanted Golden Apple or Enchanted item).

];

OPTIMIZATION

To save your TPS, setBlockPermutation only triggers if an entity moves or the light level changes (e.g., swapping items). Idle players, mobs, or items = zero overhead.

Update Rates:

- Players: 1-tick loop for maximum responsiveness.

- Entities/Drops: 2-tick loop to keep CPU usage low.

CONFIGURATION

Config

Type /gg:config in chat to open the settings menu!

- Cheats Not Required: Works even if cheats are disabled.

- Operator Only: Only server admins can change global settings.

Don't like a specific feature? You can disable it individually here.

README/IMPORTANT NOTES

- ⚠️ COMPATIBILITY: DO NOT combine this with other dynamic lighting add-ons since they will fight over the same block coordinates and cause TPS loss.

- While optimized, a massive amount of emissive mobs in one area may impact performance. Though, you can toggle "Glow Mobs" off in the config menu if needed.

- Since this uses the Scripting API, bugs are possible. Don't expect perfection!

- Achievement? This add-on doesn't disable achievement.

You're NOT ALLOWED to redistributed this add-on without the official links (CurseForge/MCPEDL)

Check out my other add-on!

Hold To Enchant — Achievement-friendly auto-enchant system

Installation

1. Download the behavior pack (.mcpack)

2. Import to Minecraft

3. Activate it in your world settings

Enjoy The Glow!

Glowing Glint — Dynamic Lighting Add-on