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Portables Beacons

A beacon you carry. Pick its effects, choose who they reach, and pay for them in fuel. Four tiers, three themed beacons, fourteen augments, and everything defined in datapacks.
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portablebeacons-2.1.0+1.21.1.jar

File nameportablebeacons-2.1.0-1.21.1.jar
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DrimoZDrimoZ
Uploaded
Nov 5, 2026
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Mod Loaders
NeoForge
File ID
9454758
Type
R
Release
Supported game versions
  • 1.21.1
  • 1.21

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implementation "curse.maven:portables-beacons-1650659:9454758"

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What's new

2.1.0

One release for 1.21.1, 26.1 and 26.2, with the same content on all three except where a dependency forbids it: team sharing counts FTB Teams parties on 1.21.1 and 26.1 only, because FTB Teams has no 26.2 build yet.

Nothing in a world or a datapack has to change. Presets are an optional field on a beacon, so a beacon from 2.0.0 loads as it was, and the tier and min_tier ranges only widened.

Added

  • Three effect presets, in a tab of their own under the augments: each shows the effects it holds as icons and has a Save and a Load button. Loading is a reconfiguration, so it needs a nearby beacon where require_beacon_to_configure says so; a preset the beacon can no longer hold in full keeps what still fits. Beacons from before keep working: they simply have no presets yet.
  • Hunter, and the mark_hostiles operation: monsters in the aura's reach glow, and at level 2 are slowed. Only while the beacon runs and pays; fuel ×1.3 / ×1.6.
  • Three new augment operations, and an augment for each. solar_charge (fuel per second under open daylight sky, carried or running), linger (seconds added to every effect) and last_stand (below a third of health, Resistance at its level and Regeneration for 5 s, then a minute's cooldown shown on the item). Solar, Bastion and Afterglow ship with them.
  • Two more fuels. Amethyst shards, renewable and just under copper (120 units), for an early beacon; echo shards (2400), between emerald and diamond, for whoever has been to an Ancient City.
  • Portable Beacon V, the endgame rung: four effects up to level III, five augment slots, 18 blocks of reach and double the buffer of IV - still under a placed beacon's 20. Crafted from a Beacon IV with three Nether Stars and two blocks of netherite; it keeps what the IV carried. min_tier can now be 5 too, so a datapack can save an effect for it.
  • /portablebeacons inspect for operators: the held beacon's stats after augments and server rules, factor by factor, for whoever is writing a datapack.
  • A key to switch the beacon on and off without opening it - the running one goes off, or the one the open key would pick comes on. Unbound by default, under Portable Beacon in the controls.
  • An optional Extended effects datapack, shipped inside the mod and off until a world enables it: Luck, Hero of the Village and Invisibility for the five standard tiers.
  • The running beacon's runtime on the HUD, bottom-right, in the status light's colours: green, amber in the last minute, red once dry. Hidden with F1, or for good with show_hud in the new client config.
  • Three specialist augments. Sprinter and Miner take Speed or Haste one level higher at 0.6× its cost; Diver halves the cost of Water Breathing, Dolphin's Grace and Conduit Power. Crafted like the others, around sugar, a golden pickaxe and a turtle scute.

Changed

  • The info tab is grouped. Aura, fuel and loadout, one figure per line with its value flush right, instead of a sentence per figure; moving and standing runtimes are two lines when they differ, and the runtime takes the status light's colour once it is short.
  • Tabs own their clicks. A tab's buttons are real buttons, drawn with the four button states and handled by the tab, in the way YetAnotherFarmingStation does it.

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