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Raise a glowing companion moth from an egg, fly it when it is grown, and catch, jar and breed 32 real-world wild moths.
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Description
A moth mod for Minecraft 1.21.11 (NeoForge): raise a glowing companion moth from an egg, ride it when it's grown, and find 32 real-world wild moths to catch, keep in jars and breed.
Lumen, your companion moth
- Tame a Lumen with glow berries. Each has a wing pattern and a glow colour; its eyes, tail and pattern glow at night.
- Vesper is the rare charcoal, red-eyed form: 1 in 256, or 1 in 4 in the Deep Dark.
- A tamed Lumen chimes when a hostile mob gets close, and can leave a glowing trail back to a home you mark with a compass.
- Breed two Lumens and follow the whole life cycle: egg clutch, caterpillar (four sizes), cocoon, hatchling, adult.
Ride a Great Lumen
- Feed a grown Lumen Lantern Nectar until it grows into a Great Lumen, saddle it and fly.
- No saddle? Hold it over your head and glide down from a cliff.
32 real wild moths
- Luna and Comet moths with long trailing tails, the huge Atlas, Io and Polyphemus eyespots, hawk-moths that hover at flowers by day, a Herald in dripstone caves, a Ghost Moth over swamps at dusk, and more.
- Each spawns in its own biomes at its own time of day, rests on the bark and leaves it likes, and bats hunt them at night.
Mothing
- Catch moths with a Moth Net and keep them in Moth Jars: living lanterns that shed wing scales for dyes and potions.
- Hang a lit Moth Sheet at night and watch moths settle on it.
- Breed jarred moths, and scoop a caterpillar into a Rearing Jar to watch it grow, spin a cocoon and emerge.
- The illustrated Moth Journal gets a page for every species you catch.
For server owners: a per-world config turns flying, gliding, the warning chime and more on or off, and permission nodes work with LuckPerms. Install Mothlight on both the client and the server.
Modpacks: you're welcome to include Mothlight in modpacks.
Full guide, every crafting recipe and the species list: Mothlight wiki
Designed, directed and playtested by DreadedZombie. Code written with AI assistance (Claude). All pictures are real in-game screenshots.
Mothlight Team
