Lightweight Lights
by TeamJEM
Lightweight Lights, by TeamJEM, lights up the area around a player who holds certain items, with no block placement needed.
What it does
Holding a supported light source such as a Soul Torch or Soul Lantern makes the surrounding blocks glow, and the effect works from either the main hand or the offhand. The mod is distributed as both a mod and a datapack, so either form can be installed. Lightweight Lights needs a server to run and clients may add it, and it is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later. It is not open source. Files cover 1.20 – 1.21.4 for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Key features
Held-item lighting
Holding a light item lights the area around the player without any block being placed in the world.
Mainhand and offhand support
The effect triggers whether the light item is held in the main hand or the offhand.
Soul light sources
Soul Torch and Soul Lantern are among the items that produce the held light effect.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Lightweight Lights need to be installed on the client?
Is the datapack version different from the mod?
In the catalog
Lightweight Lights is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,052 Adventure mods for Fabric. 17,979 mods support Minecraft 1.21.4.
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What the author says
Summary: A lightweight datapack that adds dynamic lights. Basically whenever you hold out certain items the area around you will light up without you having to place them.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/lightweight-lights
- Owner
- TeamJEM
- Published
- 2025-01-25
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-06-22
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15