Beacon Obscura
by _gid
Beacon Obscura lets a server hide a beacon's beam by placing tinted glass blocks directly above the beacon, while the beacon's effects keep working as before.
What it does
Setting tinted glass in the spaces stacked over a beacon block stops the beam from showing, and taking those panes out makes the beam appear again. The beacon's pyramid requirement, sticky piston toggles and effects are unchanged, and breaking the glass returns the beacon to normal vanilla behavior. The mod works on Fabric and NeoForge for 26.1.2 – 26.3, and it is open source under the MIT License.
Because the environment is server-side only, a server that runs the mod alone is enough, and players join without installing anything. Beacon Obscura does not depend on any other mod. Vanilla clients check the beacon's activation and effects on the server, while the beam rendering happens on the client, so the tinted glass is what decides whether a beam is drawn. Moving a world later to a host lacking the mod, or to plain singleplayer, brings back the vanilla beam.
Beacon Obscura is published for 26.3 on Fabric and NeoForge, with files released on 2026-09-18. Its source code and issue tracker are public.
Key features
Hidden beams
Tinted glass directly above a beacon removes its visible beam while the beacon keeps functioning.
Effects unchanged
Activation, the pyramid requirement and the effects of the beacon work the same as in vanilla.
Reversible placement
Removing the tinted glass brings the beam back, so a builder can show or hide it at any time.
Server-side operation
The beam check happens on the server, so clients need no extra configuration to see the hidden state.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners who want beacon beams hidden on their server, and builders who want beacons to act as plain decoration without changing how they work.
How it compares
Beacon Tinted Glass is a Fabric mod for 26.2 – 26.3 that runs on the client and server and is open source under the Apache License 2.0. Tinted Beacons is a client-side only Fabric mod for 1.18.1 – 1.19.4 under the MIT License, so it covers a different version range and does not affect the server. Beam Be Gone works on Fabric and NeoForge for 1.17 – 26.2 with the client and server, and is open source under the MIT License.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Obscura | Fabric and NeoForge | 26.1.2 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-09-18 |
| Beacon Tinted Glass | Fabric | 26.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-01 |
| Tinted Beacons | Fabric | 1.18.1 – 1.19.4 | Client-side only | 2023-01-11 |
| Beam Be Gone | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.17 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-07 |
Questions
Does Beacon Obscura need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders does Beacon Obscura support?
Does removing the mod change a world?
In the catalog
Beacon Obscura is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
This small server-side-only mod lets you hide a beacon beam by placing tinted glass above it, while keeping all the beacon's effects working normally. Ideally, this mod would be obsoleted by Mojang adding this obvious and logical feature to the stock game... it's frankly what we'd expect to happen if a block of…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/beacon-obscura
- Owner
- _gid
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-18
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15