Lit It Up
by Eruannie_9
Lit It Up lets players light furnaces by hand, using flint, steel, fiber or an item with Fire Aspect instead of letting them ignite on their own.
What it does
Furnaces in this mod stay unlit until a player interacts with them. A player holds flint in both hands, places Switchgrass Fiber in the fuel slot and right-clicks to strike a spark. Other ignition items can be added through the mod's configuration, and a default setting can be turned off for players who want a little more realism in survival.
Switchgrass is the material that ties the progression together. It grows as a grass with a warmer yellow-green tint, shifts color with its biome and changes over time through three stages. Each stage drops more Switchgrass Fiber when broken, and that fiber feeds the sparkling flint and flint steel recipes. The mod needs Bookling Gear to run, and Curios API is optional. It runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it, and it is published for Forge across 1.19.2 – 1.20.4. The code is released under the MIT License, and the mod is not open source.
Key features
Manual furnace lighting
Furnaces stay cold until a player lights them with a flint and steel item or another configured ignition source.
Switchgrass growth stages
Switchgrass grows through three stages, each yielding more fiber when broken, from a single unit up to an occasional extra.
Fiber-based ignition items
Sparkling Flint consumes the fiber used in its crafting, while Flint Steel works without fiber and takes one durability per use.
Fire Aspect ignition
An item with the Fire Aspect enchantment can light a furnace, adding another route to ignition in survival.
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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.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Optional 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want furnaces to need manual attention, and server owners who want to set which items can ignite them in a Forge world.
How it compares
Light Mobs is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 that is client and server and under All rights reserved, so it is a different kind of change. Blazing Flint and Steel is a Forge mod for 1.20.4 under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, and it covers the flint and steel item instead of the furnace. Stack Furnace is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 under the MIT License, client and server, and it changes how furnaces stack rather than how they are lit.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lit It Up | Forge | 1.19.2 – 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2026-02-15 |
| Light Mobs | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-07 |
| Blazing Flint and Steel | Forge | 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2024-06-06 |
| Stack Furnace | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-02-24 |
Questions
Does Lit It Up require Bookling Gear?
Does the server need Lit It Up?
Which Minecraft versions does Lit It Up support?
In the catalog
Lit It Up is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,058 World generation mods for Forge. 13,907 mods support Minecraft 1.20.4.
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What the author says
Want a little more realism in your survival? With this mod, you have to light your furnaces yourself. No more magic flames, your furnace needs a tiny bit of attention. Manual furnace lighting with flexible ignition options. Works with vanilla and many modded blocks, supports custom ignition items, reacts to the…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/lit-it-up
- Owner
- Eruannie_9
- Published
- 2023-10-25
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-02-15
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15