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Handheld Moon - (with flashlight)

by MerrySnow

With Handheld Moon, players carry a flashlight-style light source and can place a MoonlightLamp that projects a beam like a searchlight.

FabricForgeNeoForgeClient and serverAll rights reserved1.20.1 – 26.1.2

What it does

The mod adds several large-area lighting items, including a flashlight and a mini moon. The core items are FullMoon and MoonlightLamp: FullMoon gives a lighting radius of 18 with a falloff tuned so that only the edge of the light noticeably darkens close surfaces, and it is used to craft MoonlightLamp, which increases the illumination distance to 32 at a narrower angle. A shader filter sits on top of vanilla lighting and softens its overexposed look in the lit area.

Handheld Moon requires LambDynamicLights - Dynamic Lights and One Enough Lib on every loader. Curios API is optional and adds an accessory slot integration. The mod runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it, and it is released under All rights reserved with public links to its source code and issue tracker. Files are published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 10 release versions, 1.20.1 – 26.1.2, with 1.2.0-beta for 26.1.2 as the latest Fabric file.

Key features

  1. Flashlight and mini moon

    Handheld lighting items provide a flashlight and a mini moon for lighting large areas.

  2. MoonlightLamp toggles

    Right-click turns MoonlightLamp on or off, the control hotkey defaults to V, and holding it while scrolling changes shader strength.

  3. Third-person beam

    A placed MoonlightLamp emits a beam that other players can see, and sneaking with right-click toggles it. The mouse wheel changes the beam direction.

  4. Mod integrations

    Planned and underway integrations with TaCZ, Superb Warfare and Sona Survival 101 add attachments such as a muzzle and a laser when both mods are installed.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

26.x3 of 3 versions with builds
26.1.21.2.0-betaNot available1.2.0-beta
26.1.11.2.0-betaNot available1.2.0-beta
26.11.2.0-betaNot available1.2.0-beta
1.21.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.21.1Not availableNot available1.1.0-fix
1.20.x6 of 6 versions with builds
1.20.6Not available1.0.0Not available
1.20.5Not available1.0.0Not available
1.20.4Not available1.0.0Not available
1.20.3Not available1.0.0Not available
1.20.2Not available1.0.0Not available
1.20.1Not available1.0.0Not available
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 2

One Enough LibA Lib for simplified development of the OE series
Required
LambDynamicLights - Dynamic LightsAdds dynamic lights to Minecraft as the most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
Required

Questions

Does Handheld Moon need LambDynamicLights?

Yes. LambDynamicLights - Dynamic Lights is a required dependency, and the mod builds on dynamic lighting instead of vanilla lighting behavior.

Must the server have Handheld Moon installed?

Yes. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod.

Is Curios API needed for the accessory slot?

Curios API is optional. The accessory slot integration is added when it is installed alongside Handheld Moon.

In the catalog

Handheld Moon - (with flashlight) is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.

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What the author says

This mod adds several large-area lighting items such as flashlights and mini moons. Require dependency Sodium/Embeddium Dynamic Lights for forge, and LambDynamicLights for other loader.
MerrySnow, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
MerrySnow
Published
2025-12-04
Updated on Modrinth
2026-04-21
Facts verified
2026-10-15

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