Shooting stars on clear nights. Most are quick and faint, some nights turn into a proper meteor shower, and once in a while you get a bolide - a slow, very bright fireball that breaks up and leaves a glow hanging behind it.

What you'll see

Shooting stars - each one drags a glowing trail that lingers for a moment and shrinks away behind it. Most burn white-blue; gold, teal, violet, emerald and rose turn up as well, and the brighter ones throw off sparkles.
Meteor showers - on some nights the stars all radiate from one point in the sky, up to several a minute at the peak, and the whole shower shares a colour.
Bolides - rare and slow, sometimes green like the real ones. It breaks into glowing fragments and the afterglow sits there for a few seconds.

How it behaves

Clear nights only. Everything fades in with the stars and back out at dawn or under rain and storm cover.
Terrain occludes the sky normally, so a mountain hides whatever is behind it.
Frequency runs from Rare to Busy, and showers and bolides each have their own toggle.

Compatibility

Client-side, no mixins and no GLSL. The streaks draw through a vanilla additive render type on the composited frame, so they show up under Sodium and Iris shaderpacks.

Configuration

Sodium's video settings has a Starfall page - frequency, brightness, showers and bolides. It's all in config/starfall.json too.

Client-side, NeoForge 1.21.1, JDK 21. No server install needed. MIT licensed. Free to use in modpacks.

True Falling Stars