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Luminous Dust

by PROST5FROST

Luminous Dust is a NeoForge client-side mod that draws floating dust particles with an interactive physics world around the player.

NeoForgeClient-side onlyGNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or laterOpen source1.21.1

What it does

Dust particles drift through the world on the client and react to movement, so the effect stays in the view and not on the server. The mod needs YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL) to be installed alongside it. Only the client needs the mod; servers run without it, and players join unaffected.

The mod is a fork of Light Dust by Swiss8191, which was ported to newer versions before being archived. Luminous Dust is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later, and its only published files target 1.21.1, with the latest build 0.2.2-beta released on 2026-06-16 on the beta channel. The author set out to build a lighter, performance-focused version because the original felt overengineered, and the older release is noted as the one that worked well.

Key features

  1. Interactive dust physics

    Floating dust particles respond to the world around them, giving a light ambient effect in the scene.

  2. In-game basic settings

    Basic options can be changed directly through an in-game screen without editing files.

  3. Advanced color settings

    Colors and further options are set in the luminousdust-client.toml config file for finer control.

  4. Adjustable dust opacity

    The ambientDustOpacity value can be raised, with 0.45 suggested when the dust looks too faint, which helps with shaders that change transparency.

  5. Break particle control

    Setting breakParticleCount to 0 in the config turns off the particles produced when blocks break.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

No stable releases
Every published file is a beta or alpha build.
1.21.10.2.2-beta
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 1

YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft!
Required

Questions

Does Luminous Dust need YetAnotherConfigLib?

Yes. YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL) is a required dependency and must be installed with Luminous Dust on NeoForge.

Does Luminous Dust have to be installed on the server?

No. Only the player's game needs it, and servers run without it.

Which game version does Luminous Dust support?

Luminous Dust has files for 1.21.1 only, with the latest NeoForge build 0.2.2-beta for 1.21.1 on the beta channel.

How can the dust be made more visible?

Raising the ambientDustOpacity value in the config to around 0.45 makes dust that looks too faint easier to see.

In the catalog

Luminous Dust is one of 5,392 Social mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,784 Social mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.

Social mods5,392NeoForge modsMods for 1.21.132,366

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What the author says

The original author did really good job, he ported his mod to new versions, so this port will be archived. Basically, Luminous Dust is a fork of the original Light Dust, but with completely new assets, licensed under LGPL v2.1. Our goal was to strip away the overengineered parts and create a clean…
PROST5FROST, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
PROST5FROST
Published
2026-06-06
Updated on Modrinth
2026-06-16
Facts verified
2026-10-15

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