HoldingTorchLight

Holding a torch in the main hand or the off-hand applies a permanent Night Vision effect to the player. Putting the torch away removes the effect at once, so no leftover light sources or visual glitches stay behind in the world. The mod uses the game's own status effects instead of placed light blocks, which keeps the lighting smooth and avoids the lag that many light blocks can cause.

The mod works in both hands and does not require giving up the off-hand slot. It runs in single-player and on multiplayer servers, and it is built as a light quality-of-life addition for low-end computers, modpacks with limited memory, and setups where OptiFine is not present. Forge and NeoForge both have files, and the environment is client and server, so the server and every player need the mod. The mod is released under All rights reserved and is not open source. Files cover 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.8 and 26.1.2, with the latest Forge and NeoForge builds dated 2026-08-14.