What is Illuminations?
Illuminations adds fireflies, glowing insects and other light orbs to the world in order to improve the ambience and liveliness of your world both at night and in low light areas.
Note: This is the Fabric version of the mod. For the Forge version, please check Illuminations for Forge.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this mod server side or client side?
Since you can interact with fireflies and other entities in this mod, it's not client side only, meaning you need both the server and the client to have the mod installed in order to play with it.
Can I include this mod in a modpack?
You can include this mod in any modpack, private or public, without asking permission, as long as you don't make profit out of it.
If you have any questions, propositions or ideas, please submit them in the comment section below. You can also join our Discord server, it's easier.
Cute little mod :3 I tried it on 1.15.2, I was curious to see what would happen if I loaded the same world on the 1.16 snapshot WITHOUT the mod, and I was happy to see that there were zero problems in doing so, no world corruption of any kind which is what I was afraid of, only thing that will happen is that all the grass where the fireflies spawn will be removed from all loaded chunks, which makes sense since its a custom block. Please never stop updating this mod <3
In reply to frisk_smith:
Thanks for the support!
Can you maybe make them create Light when Dynamic Lights is downloaded?
In reply to NerdCuddles:
Just what I was thinking!
Crashing While Loading With Forge 28.1.117
https://paste.link/p2/QjQOC58iC0kXwgAsLFH8dA.txt
In reply to Seikikai:
Note that this is the page for the Fabric version of the mod. Illuminations for Forge is maintained by a different developer.
In reply to PyrofabTheModsmith:
Oh, Thanks
Could we get a config for bug color? Also spawn variable control
it would be nice if you could do this mod client side only make it so its only visual i dont think it would take that much time to make, merry christmas!
In reply to Alexisss:
Sadly it may take a tad longer to make than you think, and current plans for the mod rely heavily on a server dependency. As such, a client only version - while doable - is not a big priority at the current time.
In reply to PyrofabTheModsmith:
understandable, thanks for the reply, best wishes to you!
Lovely little mod but it seems it absolutely KILLS local servers. Whenever the fireflies start spawning everyone gets timed out from the server. If there was a way to limit the amount of spawning fireflies or just turn off fireflies only that would be awesome!
In reply to idnullmusic:
Are you playing on the latest Fabric version? Because if yes, I need to investigate that, there should already be a limit.
Any plans for a Forge version?
In reply to Sepsol:
As I've replied many time already, no, sorry.
In reply to Sepsol:
Eyes in the Darkness is a good replacement for this mod. You shouldn't bother this poor dude haha.
Hey do you have plans anything that fixes the critters in place? like a jar or a lure or something so i can have floaty light sources?
I mean imma still gonna summon in NoAI versions even now, but a less command based solution would be nice
In reply to GPedia:
Sorry, I have no plans for that. But the mod already has Firefly lanterns, and Fireflies tend to stay near their tall grass, so I don't really see what would be the point.
what a beautiful mod i think it will give me a new feels in the MC night，especially used with shaderpacks，but i find some items/blocks lack the Chinese translation。
I guess they haven't been added yet in 1.14.4，maybe you can add them next version~
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"item.illuminations.glow_meal": "荧光粉",
"block.illuminations.firefly_grass": "萤火虫草丛",
"block.illuminations.firefly_tall_grass": "萤火虫高草丛",
In reply to hackwellfox:
That's very nice of you, I appreciate it! It would have been even better if you directly did a pull request on the project's github, but that's good enough, thanks! I'll make sure to include it in the next update and credit you 😁