Electric Lighting

Electric Lighting adds 16 new light blocks in the vanilla color variants, and each one draws power from Forge Energy rather than burning fuel. A light bulb has to be built from a glass block pane, while the electric lamp uses a vanilla stained-glass pane and cannot use a glass block or a regular glass pane. Lighting bases accept power, so a lamp only lights when the network supplies it. Players who build a base far from the start will find that a generator powered by modern electricity can keep the lamps lit.

Lamps can be switched between blinking modes that run at different speeds, toggled by right-clicking the block. Server owners can disable the blink state through a server-side config. The mod suits players who want lighting that fits a machine-driven base, and the author notes that torches are unlikely to suit such a build. Electric Lighting is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, and its source code and issue tracker are public.

The mod runs on Forge for 1.18.2 with the environment of client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files cover six game versions 1.12 – 1.18.2, with 1.0.0 for 1.18.2 as the latest file, published on 2023-04-18. The author lists two official sources for the mod itself, Modrinth and Codeberg. Modpacks may include the mod, but it may not be sold or redistributed on its own.