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Ambient Fireflies

by Anxietie

Ambient Fireflies adds glowing fireflies to the Minecraft world, the creatures Mojang had promised to add.

FabricClient and serverGNU General Public License v3.0 onlyOpen source1.19.4 – 1.20.1

What it does

Fireflies appear mainly at night in swamps, and in other biomes as well. Frogs eat them, so a frog living near a firefly area will hunt the insects as part of its normal behavior. Players can catch fireflies in glass bottles and carry them around as light sources.

When an optional lighting mod is also installed, each firefly emits light that moves with it, so the insects brighten the area around them. Without that optional mod, the fireflies still spawn and behave the same way but give off no light.

The mod runs on Fabric and needs Fabric API. It is client and server, so the server and every player install it. Builds cover 1.19.4 and 1.20.1, and the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, which makes it open source.

Key features

  1. Night-time fireflies

    Fireflies spawn at night in swamps and in other biomes, adding life to dark landscapes.

  2. Frog diet

    Frogs eat fireflies, linking the two mobs in the same ecosystem.

  3. Catching in bottles

    Players can capture a firefly in a glass bottle and keep it as a portable light.

  4. Light with a companion mod

    With an optional lighting mod installed, each firefly emits a moving light that brightens nearby terrain.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.20.11.4.0+1.20.1
1.19.41.3.1+1.19.4
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 1

Fabric APILightweight and modular API providing common hooks and intercompatibility measures utilized by mods using the Fabric toolchain.
Required

Optional 1

LambDynamicLights - Dynamic LightsAdds dynamic lights to Minecraft as the most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
Optional

Questions

Does Ambient Fireflies need Fabric API?

Yes. Fabric API is a required dependency, so it must be installed next to Ambient Fireflies on Fabric.

Do fireflies glow without an optional lighting mod?

No. The light effect only appears when an optional lighting mod is installed. The fireflies still spawn and can be caught without it.

Does the server need the mod?

Yes. Servers that run it need every player to install it too.

In the catalog

Ambient Fireflies is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.

Mobs mods11,058Fabric modsMods for 1.20.134,764

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Official listing

Owner
Anxietie
Published
2023-08-13
Updated on Modrinth
2024-02-22
Facts verified
2026-10-15

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