Helpful Campfires
by June
Helpful Campfires changes how lit campfires affect nearby players, adding healing, a jump boost on soul campfires, and new sounds and particles.
What it does
Campfires become worth building in survival play. Walking near a lit campfire activates it, and an activated campfire gives nearby players regeneration, so a group can sit around it with friends and recover during an adventure. Soul campfires give a jump boost instead when they are activated.
Active campfires also play new ambient sounds and show particle effects. Single logs, charcoal and stumps can be crafted into a stump block that suits a campfire as decoration, and animals can be leashed to stumps in the same way a leash works on a fence post. Cooking food on a campfire is unchanged. The mod is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, so the code is open source. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. Files are published for Fabric and NeoForge, both for 1.21.1, with 1.0.0+1.21.1 as the latest build.
Key features
Regeneration around campfires
An activated campfire gives nearby players regeneration, which lets a group heal while they rest together.
Soul campfire jump boost
Activated soul campfires give nearby players a jump boost instead of regeneration.
Activation by walking near
Walking close to a lit campfire activates it, so no extra click is needed.
Stump crafting and leashing
Single logs, charcoal and stumps craft into a stump block, and animals can be leashed to stumps like fence posts.
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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.
Use cases
Group rest in survival
Players gathering around a campfire during a long adventure can recover health together.
Campfire décor
The crafted stump pieces suit a campfire as an aesthetic addition to a camp or base.
Who it’s for: Players who want campfires to matter in survival, and builders who want campfire scenes with sound and particle effects. Server owners can install it on a multiplayer server, where it runs alongside players who have it.
How it compares
Colorful Campfires is server-side only and published only for Fabric 1.21.10, so players join without installing anything. Nice Campfires is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, with files for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across 1.21.4 – 1.21.5, and it is server required with the client optional. Helpful Campfires is client and server and covers Fabric and NeoForge for 1.21.1 only.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helpful Campfires | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-10-24 |
| Colorful Campfires | Fabric | 1.21.10 | Server-side only | 2025-11-05 |
| Nice Campfires | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 | Server required, client optional | 2025-04-08 |
Questions
Does Helpful Campfires need to be installed on both sides?
Which loaders does Helpful Campfires support?
Can soul campfires be used for a jump boost?
In the catalog
Helpful Campfires is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/helpfulcampfires
- Owner
- June
- Published
- 2025-10-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-10-24
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15