Directional Beacon Beams
by kevin_802eu
With Directional Beacon Beams, a beacon's light can be tilted, shortened, recolored and reshaped instead of rising straight up from the block.
What it does
Directional Beacon Beams lets each beacon point its beam in a chosen direction by setting yaw and pitch, where vanilla draws a straight vertical beam.
The beam's cross-section can be switched to a triangle, square, octagon or round profile, and its thickness scaled between 10% and 400% of the vanilla width. Settings are stored per beacon, keyed by world or server, dimension and block position, so they follow the block even if it was placed long ago. Shift-right-click on a beacon opens the beam editor, and changes are saved automatically across sessions. Fabric API is required. The mod is client-side only, so servers run without it and players install it alone; it is released under the MIT License and is not open source.
Key features
Custom beam direction
Each beacon's beam can be tilted and rotated to point anywhere, not only straight up.
Beam length cap
A maximum beam length can be set for each beacon, separate from its pyramid height, up to 2048 blocks.
RGB beam color
The beam color is picked as RGB, independent of the stained-glass segments placed above the beacon.
Beam shape and thickness
The cross-section can be a triangle, square, octagon or round shape, with thickness from 10% to 400% of vanilla.
In-world beam editor
Holding shift and right-clicking a beacon opens the editor directly, so commands and config file changes are unnecessary.
Mod Menu settings
Mod Menu integration provides a global Configure screen for default maximum length, and the mod can be disabled entirely there.
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
Beacon Tinted Glass is also a Fabric mod for 26.2 – 26.3, but it runs on client and server and is released under the Apache License 2.0 with open source code. Toggle Beacon Beams covers 1.21.9 – 26.2 on Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt, and is client and server under the MIT License with open source code. Directional Beacon Beams is client-side only and covers 26.2 alone on Fabric.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Directional Beacon Beams | Fabric | 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-07-01 |
| Beacon Tinted Glass | Fabric | 26.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-01 |
| Toggle Beacon Beams | Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.9 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-06-18 |
Questions
Does Directional Beacon Beams need Fabric API?
Do servers need the mod installed?
Where are beam settings stored?
Which Minecraft versions does the mod support?
In the catalog
Directional Beacon Beams 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
A client-only Fabric mod for Minecraft that lets you point a beacon's light beam in any direction and cap how far it travels — per beacon, no server-side installation required. Point it anywhere — tilt and rotate a beacon's beam to any yaw/pitch instead of the vanilla straight-up beam. Cap the length — set a maximum…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/directional-beacon-beams
- Owner
- kevin_802eu
- Published
- 2026-07-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15