Nuky's Lights

NOW ON FORGE & NEOFORGE!

Fabric · Forge · NeoForge — Minecraft 26.2

Nuky's Lights has been ported to FORGE and NEOFORGE! Bring RGB lighting, dynamic light sources and smooth fades to your builds with a native version for your preferred mod loader.

Three loaders. The same colorful lighting features. Choose the matching download for your Minecraft instance and take your light with you.

Bring color to your Minecraft nights

Explore caves with a torch in your hand, fill your builds with colored light, and watch luminous items brighten their surroundings. Nuky's Lights brings RGB and dynamic lighting to Minecraft, with smooth transitions and in-game controls.

Take your light with you

Torches and other supported luminous items light up the world while held in either hand. Dropped items and mobs carrying light sources can illuminate their surroundings too.

A cave walk recorded at 24 fps.

Build with color

Light colors are detected from block models and textures, including your active resource packs. Choose your own color corrections in-game and create colorful spaces.

A demonstration scene with 400 colored light sources. Performance depends on your hardware and selected quality profile.

Light beyond placed blocks

Supported dropped items remain light sources as they move, bringing colored illumination into the scene.

Features

• RGB lighting for luminous blocks.
• Dynamic lighting for held items, dropped items and equipped mobs.
• Smooth transitions: quick fade-in and an approximately one-second fade-out for mobile lights.
• Stained-glass color mixing: stained glass and panes add their colors to the light. Clear glass preserves the color; tinted glass blocks it.
• Light-source halos and supported temporary flashes, including lightning and TNT.
• Three quality profiles: Fast, Moderate and Detailed.
• Adjustable intensity, RGB processing distance and color palettes.

Easy in-game controls

Press N to open the settings, or use the button in the pause menu. Aim at a lamp and press K to open its color palette. Both keys are rebindable.

Color corrections apply to that block type and are saved for your active resource packs. When the mod is installed in the world or server, you can also craft a Light Tuner using an amethyst shard, glass and an iron ingot in a shapeless recipe.

Optional ultraviolet effects

UV gameplay effects are off by default. Singleplayer owners and server operators can mark lamp types as UV sources and enable mushroom growth or fungal sprouting. Sprouting can include fungal entities. These features require the mod on the server and can be disabled independently of visual lighting.

Choose your loader

Minecraft 26.2 · Java 25 · Fabric / Forge / NeoForge

• Fabric: Fabric Loader 0.19.5 and Fabric API 0.161.0+26.2, or compatible newer builds.
• FORGE — NEW! Native build tested with Forge 65.1.3 for Minecraft 26.2. Fabric API is not required.
• NEOFORGE — NEW! Native build tested with NeoForge 26.2.0.87. Fabric API is not required.

Download one JAR for your loader and put it in your mods folder. Replace older versions of the mod before starting the game.

The Light Tuner and UV gameplay features require Nuky's Lights on the server too. Visual lighting on servers without the mod has been tested on Fabric; that connection scenario has not yet been verified for the new Forge and NeoForge builds.

Compatibility and scope

RGB and dynamic lighting work with Minecraft's standard renderer. The new Forge and NeoForge builds have passed client lighting and dedicated-server checks using that renderer.

Optional compatibility with Sodium 0.9.2 has been tested on Fabric for Minecraft 26.2. That combination has not yet been verified on the new ports. Other renderers and shader packs have not been validated.

RGB is a client visual effect and does not change vanilla light levels used for mob spawning. Lighting uses chunks and entities loaded by Minecraft. Stained-glass mixing is an artistic additive effect, and some multicolor models may need a manual palette correction.

Created by Nuky. Free modpack inclusion of unmodified releases is permitted with attribution under the project's Custom license. Third-party adapter shaders retain their original license and notices. :)