🕯️ JustLights — Ultra-HD Colored Lighting & Rustic Fixtures
JustLights brings true, vibrant, colored illumination to Minecraft 1.21.1. Designed from the ground up for high-resolution texture packs, rustic town-building, and high-end shaders (Iris, Sodium, Complementary Reimagined & BSL), JustLights transforms your builds with handcrafted 128×128 Ultra-HD textures, dynamic Connected Textures (CTM), and real colored light radiance that illuminates surrounding walls and fog.
Whether you're decorating a medieval tavern, a sprawling town colony, an industrial mining dock, or a magical underwater grotto, JustLights has the perfect fixture for every build.
🚀 What's New in v1.0.2
- 💡 Modern Flat LED Panel Design: Switched connected lamp fixtures to a modern, solid-color LED diffuser panel design. Eliminates the old static radial "bulb" gradients, removing all offset hotspots, dark seams, and center voids in multi-block fixtures.
- 🔗 Flawless Connected Textures (CTM): 2×2 ceiling panels, long horizontal light strips, and T-junction doorways now connect into unified, uninterrupted glowing light fixtures with 0-pixel seam variance.
- 🛡️ Smooth Lighting & Ambient Occlusion Fix: Disabled vertex ambient occlusion on all lamp block models (
ambientocclusion: false). Prevents Minecraft and Sodium from slicing 45-degree diagonal shadows across metal bezels and faces when placed against ceilings or walls. - 🌟 Optimized Shader Bloom: Uniform emissive maps (
_e.png) provide rich, smooth volumetric bloom across the entire fixture surface when paired with Complementary Reimagined, Euphoria Patches, or BSL.
✨ Key Features
- 🎨 All 16 Minecraft Dye Colors: Every single fixture is available in all 16 colors.
- 💎 128×128 Ultra-HD Handcrafted Textures: Brushed anthracite frames, forged wrought-iron metalwork, rustic dark oak fibers, and frosted stained glass diffusers.
- 🌟 Native Shader Integration & Emissive Maps: Pre-configured
block.propertiesfor Complementary Reimagined, BSL, and Iris. Casts real colored voxel light onto floors, ceilings, and atmospheric fog! - 🔗 Connected Textures (Fusion CTM): Multi-block lamp arrays dynamically connect into seamless fixtures without borders.
- 💡 3-Stage Dimmable Brightness: Adjust lamps and floor grates between ambient candlelight (Light 5), cozy room light (Light 10), and maximum security light (Light 15).
- 🌙 Integrated Streetlight Mode (Day/Night Auto): Lamps automatically turn on at dusk and shut off at sunrise—no Redstone wiring required!
- 🖌️ In-World Dyeing: Change the color of any placed JustLights fixture on the fly by simply right-clicking it with a dye in hand.
- 🍖 Full Survival & Vanilla Mechanics: 368 balanced recipes, explosion-proof block drops, and fully functional campfires that cook food!
🏮 The Fixtures Collection
1. 💡 Connected Fixture Lamps
- Aesthetic: Industrial brushed metal casing with hex bolts and frosted glass diffusers.
- Connected Textures: Seamlessly connects horizontally and vertically when placed together.
- Controls: Click to toggle on/off, or power with Redstone. Shift + Right-Click to adjust dimming or enable Streetlight mode.
2. 🕯️ Rustic Torches & Wall Torches
- Aesthetic: Hand-carved rustic dark oak shaft, forged iron collar, and glowing ember flame tip.
- Special Particles: Blue, Cyan, and Light Blue torches produce atmospheric Soul Fire particles (
SOUL_FIRE_FLAME), while others produce dancing warm flame particles.
3. 🏮 Wrought-Iron Lanterns
- Aesthetic: Heavy wrought-iron cage with corner rivets, hanging loop, and glowing frosted glass core.
- Placement: Place on the floor, hang from ceilings/chains, or mount to walls.
4. 🔥 Cooking Campfires
- Aesthetic: Criss-cross oak logs over a glowing bed of pulsating embers with procedural leaping flames.
- Full Mechanics: Cooks up to 4 raw food items, produces cozy smoke (or high signal smoke with a hay bale underneath), can be extinguished with a shovel or water, and relit with flint & steel.
5. ⛓️ Heavy Floor Grate Lights
- Aesthetic: Flush cast-iron floor grates with recessed colored uplighting.
- Ideal for: Streets, town squares, harbor docks, castle courtyards, and mine cart tunnels. Smooth walkover with zero collision snags! Fully dimmable.
6. 👑 Wrought-Iron Chandeliers
- Aesthetic: 4-arm circular forged-iron chandelier with scrollwork arms, candle cups, wax candles, and 4 flickering flames.
- Placement: Hang from ceilings and chains or place as a freestanding candelabra. Waterloggable!
7. 🎃 Carved Jack o'Lanterns
- Aesthetic: Ribbed pumpkin rind featuring an ominous carved grin where the eyes, nose, and teeth radiate bright colored light. Rotatable in all 4 cardinal directions.
8. 🫧 Waterproof Diving Torches
- Aesthetic: Reinforced aged-bronze casing with waterproof resin and an eternal submerged flame.
- Mechanics: Waterloggable! Does not pop off when submerged in water and emits rising air bubbles. Perfect for canals, fountains, and underwater grottos.
🎮 How It Works & Controls
| Action | Control | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Toggle Light | Right-Click | Turns the lamp or floor grate on/off. Features a memory function that remembers your set brightness! |
| Cycle Brightness | Shift + Right-Click | Cycles through 100% (Light 15) → 66% (Light 10) → 33% (Light 5) → Streetlight Auto. |
| In-World Recolor | Right-Click with Dye | Instantly changes the fixture's color without breaking it, preserving its on/off state and direction! |
| Auto Streetlight | Shift + Right-Click | Switches into automatic mode: light turns on when night falls and turns off at sunrise. |
🎨 Shader Compatibility & Recommended Settings
JustLights is built from the ground up for high-end shaders (Complementary Reimagined, Euphoria Patches, and BSL).
💡 Automatic Shader Integration:
JustLights automatically detects Complementary Reimagined and BSL in yourshaderpacksfolder upon game launch and configures them so colored lighting works seamlessly out-of-the-box!
🌟 Recommended Complementary Settings (For Ultra-Vibrant Colored Radiance):
To get the most dramatic, vivid, and atmospheric colored light rays and volumetric fog, open Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs → Shader Options:
Performance & Settings (or Other Settings) → ACT Features Settings:
Colored Candle Light: ON (Essential: allows all 16 dye colors to cast colored voxel radiance)Colored Light Saturation: 125% (Boosts color richness so it completely overrides bland yellowish light)Colored Light Fog: ON (Enables gorgeous volumetric godrays and colored atmosphere in the air)Colored Light Fog Intensity: 1.00 – 1.50 (Increases the intensity of colored light beams)
Performance Settings:
Colored Lighting: 512 or 1024 (Controls voxel volume radius and colored light distance)
Lighting & Atmosphere (Optional for Extra Coziness):
Blocklight Flickering: ON (Creates subtle cozy flame flicker for Torches, Lanterns & Campfires)World Space Reflections: ON (Reflects glowing colored lamps on wet floors, puddles, and water!)
💡 Non-Shader / Vanilla Experience
Even without shaders, JustLights looks stunning! Every block features handcrafted 128×128 Ultra-HD textures with brushed metal frames, wrought-iron rivets, rustic wood fibers, and bright vanilla light emission (Light Level 15).
🛠️ Requirements & Recommendations
- Minecraft: 1.21.1
- Mod Loader: NeoForge (21.1.x)
- Recommended Mods for Maximum Visuals:
- Iris Shaders + Sodium
- Fusion (Connected Textures) (enables dynamic connected textures for lamps)
- Complementary Reimagined or BSL Shaders
📜 Permissions & Modpacks
- Modpacks: Feel free to include JustLights in any CurseForge or Modrinth modpack! No permission needed.
- Bug Reports & Suggestions: Found an issue or have an idea for a new fixture? Leave a comment or open an issue on our GitHub repository.
JustLights Team
