Crystal Glow
by cutebow
Crystal Glow, a client-side Fabric mod, changes how end crystals and some other end and nether objects are drawn, adding bloom, glints and opacity controls.
What it does
Installed on the client only, the mod gives end crystals a bloom glow and an animated glint without a shader loader. It also applies the same treatment to end gateway and nether portal overlays, and it can be configured for the core and glass of each crystal separately. Custom glint PNGs can be dropped into a Crystal Glow glints folder and loaded with a rescan from the game.
Opacity can be set for the core, the inner glass and the outer glass, so each crystal part can be made more or less transparent instead of sharing one value. Core glint settings cover enabling, texture, visibility, speed and zoom. Crystal Glow works with Vulkan Mod for bloom, and it also runs with normal Minecraft rendering. The mod requires YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL) and is published for 1.21 – 26.2, with files for 26.2 as the latest build from 2026-08-10. It is not open source and is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Bloom on end crystals
End crystals, end gateways and nether portals receive a soft bloom effect that makes their glow more visible.
Crystal opacity controls
Core, inner glass and outer glass each have their own opacity value, so transparency can be tuned per part.
Animated core glint
The core glint can be enabled, given a texture, and adjusted for visibility, speed and zoom, with a glint effect that animates over the crystal.
Custom glint textures
Players can supply their own glint PNG files from a dedicated folder and load them into the game.
Config screen
Settings appear in a YetAnotherConfigLib screen with sections for general options, menu scale, linked glints and textures.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
3D End Crystal is a Fabric and NeoForge client mod for 1.21.1 – 26.3 under All rights reserved, and it is not open source. Old Crystals is a Fabric client mod for 1.21.9 – 26.2 under the MIT License, and it is open source. Crystal Glow is Fabric only and covers 1.21 – 26.2 under All rights reserved, with no source release.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Glow | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-08-10 |
| 3D End Crystal | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-10-12 |
| Old Crystals | Fabric | 1.21.9 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-08-15 |
Questions
Does Crystal Glow need YetAnotherConfigLib?
Does Crystal Glow need a shader loader?
Which Minecraft versions does Crystal Glow support?
In the catalog
Crystal Glow is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Does not work with crystal opacity as it does what that mod does built into this one. Crystal Glow is a client-side (Obv) mod that lets you customize end crystals with glow, bloom, glints, End Gateway overlays, Nether Portal overlays, opacity controls, and separate settings for the crystal core and glass. You can…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/crystal-glow
- Owner
- cutebow
- Published
- 2026-04-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-10
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15