Ice and Fire: Emissive Dragons
by Syric
Emissive Dragons makes IceAndFire Community Edition dragons render glowing textures, which resource packs can supply for each dragon's stage, sex and sleep state.
What it does
The mod changes how IceAndFire Community Edition draws dragons. Its emissive layer lets a resource pack add glow to the eyes and body, and the textures can differ by dragon variant, growth stage, sex and whether the dragon is asleep. Eye glow disappears while the dragon blinks or closes its eyes, and it affects only the head and neck of the dragon, since eyes are the only part the override replaces by default.
The mod ships no textures of its own and does nothing alone. It has to be paired with a resource pack built for it, and the author made Tabla's Dragon Retextures as an example and to encourage other artists to make packs. Installing it on the client is enough for the glow to appear, and the server can run without it, although the author recommends having it on the server too. Matching versions of IceAndFire Community Edition must be used on both sides.
Everything can be toggled through the config file. Female eye glow, sleep textures and a female glow texture each have their own switch, and when those are off the male texture is used for all dragons. Individual dragons can be excluded with a tag command: giving a dragon the ignore tag stops its glow, and removing the tag restores it.
Key features
Emissive dragon textures
Dragons render glow textures from a resource pack across the whole body, including eyes, with variations by stage and sex.
Sleeping glow textures
A separate texture set can be applied while a dragon sleeps, and it can be turned on or off in the config file.
Female eye variants
Female dragons can use their own eye glow textures, or fall back to the male textures when the option is off.
Per-dragon glow control
A tag command lets a player or server owner stop or restore the glow on a single dragon.
Gallery
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
How it compares
EC Ice and Fire Compat is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 that runs on both client and server, released under All rights reserved and not open source. Ecobreeder is also Forge, for 1.20.1 – 1.20.4, with client and server sides and All rights reserved, and it is not open source. Emissive Dragons is open source under the MIT License and needs only the client, so servers can run without it.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice and Fire: Emissive Dragons | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client required, server optional | 2026-07-12 |
| EC Ice and Fire Compat | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-05-13 |
| Ecobreeder | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2026-07-13 |
Questions
Does Emissive Dragons work without a resource pack?
Does the server need Emissive Dragons?
Which game versions does Emissive Dragons support?
In the catalog
Ice and Fire: Emissive Dragons is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,478 Adventure mods for Forge. 11,154 mods support Minecraft 1.20.6.
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What the author says
Whether you're using Ice & Fire Community Edition or the original, make sure you are using the matching version of this mod!! This mod allows dragons to render emissive "glow" textures. These textures can vary with the dragon's variant, stage, and sex, as well as whether or not it is asleep.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/ice-and-fire-emissive-dragons
- Owner
- Syric
- Published
- 2026-07-02
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-12
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15