Glowstone Extended
Glowstone Extended is a Fabric mod for 1.20.1 that adds dyeable glowstone variants, bricks, polished blocks and soul forms as full block light sources.
What it does
The mod adds new glowstone variants in several forms, including Glowstone Bricks and Polished Glowstone, each available in a full set of colors and in soul versions. Most of the new blocks can be crafted in survival, and some new materials are introduced for them. Glowstone Dust is obtained by smelting, and Glowstone Bricks are used in crafting.
Soul glowstone dust comes from breaking soul glowstone variants and is used to craft experience bottles, so the mod offers some additional XP. Soul glowstone bricks are obtained by breaking soul glowstone bricks and can be smelted to remove the soul. The mod is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and requires Fabric API. Create Fabric is optional: with it installed, the mod adds recipes for Create's machines, such as haunting, compression, milling, mixing and crushing, along with the vanilla recipes.
Key features
Dyeable glowstone variants
Glowstone blocks, bricks and polished forms are offered in many dye colors, with soul versions included.
Soul glowstone materials
Soul glowstone dust and soul glowstone bricks are produced by breaking soul blocks and feed further crafting.
Experience bottle crafting
Soul glowstone dust can be used to craft experience bottles, which gives a source of additional XP.
Create machine recipes
Haunting, pressing, milling, mixing and crushing recipes handle glowstone and soul glowstone materials.
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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.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Optional 1
Use cases
Survival builds
Players can craft the new blocks in survival, using smelted glowstone dust and the new brick material.
Light and color design
Dyeable glowstone variants give builders more light sources and color options for decorative lighting.
Who it’s for: Builders in survival and creative worlds who want more color and light-source options, and players who run Create modpacks and want glowstone recipes for its machines.
How it compares
Luminous Brush is a Fabric mod for 1.20 – 1.20.4 that is client and server and released under the MIT License, but it is not open source. It's Dyeing Time! is a Fabric mod for 1.20 – 1.20.1 that is client and server under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license and is not open source. Glowstone Extended is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and covers only 1.20.1.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glowstone Extended | Fabric | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-04 |
| Luminous Brush | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2026-02-22 |
| It's Dyeing Time! | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-03-20 |
Questions
Does Glowstone Extended need Fabric API?
Does the server need Glowstone Extended?
Is Create Fabric needed to use the mod?
In the catalog
Glowstone Extended is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Ever wished that Minecraft had more options for full block light sources? Or even more color variants for light sources? This mod could help you out! This mod features not only 3 (4 if you count subvariants) new Glowstone variants in the forms of Glowstone Bricks, Polished Glowstone, and Polished Glowstone Bricks…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/glowstone-extended
- Owner
- damiennesretrotech
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-09-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15