Plants Need Light!
Plants Need Light! makes crops and saplings depend on sunlight, so farms require a light source to keep growing.
What it does
Plants in this mod grow only when they receive sunlight or another light source. Torches and other light sources can also keep crops growing at night or underground, so farms placed in shadow still produce. The mod runs on Forge for 1.20.1 and needs to be installed on both the client and the server.
Key features
Sunlight-dependent growth
Crops and saplings need light to progress, which changes how farms are placed in the world.
Artificial light sources
Torches and other light sources provide the light that crops need when natural sunlight is absent.
Added farming realism
The change adds a layer of agriculture immersion to the game without new items or machines.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
In the catalog
Plants Need Light! is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This mod now changes how plants, crops, and saplings are grown in Minecraft by now making them required to have a source of natural sunlight to grow. This is to add agriculture immersion and a bit more realism into the game. Torches and other light sources no longer provide light for crops to grow aswell.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/plants-need-light
- Owner
- BruceTheRonin
- Published
- 2024-10-26
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-10-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15