Skyloom
by yxusuf05
Skyloom lets players swap the sky in-game from a menu, using skies in the OptiFine and MCPatcher custom sky format.
What it does
A menu opened from the world lists every sky installed in the skyloom folder, and a preview shows each one before it is applied. Picking a sky takes effect immediately, so a player can change mind a few seconds later without a restart or a resource pack reload. Switches turn the sun, moon, sunrise glow and clouds on or off, and a click can put the default Minecraft sky back.
A browse tab fetches skies that can be added to the game, shows a progress bar while each one arrives, and marks entries that are already installed. Packs are unpacked by the browser, so a zip does not have to be extracted by hand. Players can also drop their own zip into the skies folder and press rescan to load it.
Skyloom reads the custom sky packs made for OptiFine over the last decade, including their property files, which set timing, blending, weather conditions and rotation. It runs on the Fabric loader and needs Fabric API. The mod is client-side only, so only the player needs it, and the code is under the MIT License, though the project is not open source. Files exist for 1.21.9, 1.21.10 and 1.21.11, with 1.0.0 for 1.21.11 as the latest build.
Key features
In-game sky menu
A menu in the world lists installed skies, and picking one applies it at once with no restart.
Preview and toggles
Each sky can be previewed before it is applied, and the sun, moon, sunrise glow and clouds can be switched individually.
Browse and add skies
A tab lists skies that can be added, with a bar tracking each arrival and a badge on anything already present.
OptiFine sky packs
Custom sky packs in the OptiFine and MCPatcher format load without conversion, including their property files.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want to change the sky without editing resource packs or restarting the game. It suits single-player worlds and clients that join servers, since only the client needs the mod.
How it compares
Dark Sky is also a Fabric client mod with MIT licensing and is open source, for 1.19.3 – 1.21.11. Skyboxify is an open source client mod under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, for 1.21 – 26.3. Skyloom is not open source and covers 1.21.9 – 1.21.11, so the two differ in version range and license.
Questions
Does Skyloom need Fabric API?
Do servers have to install Skyloom?
Can OptiFine sky packs be used without conversion?
Which Minecraft versions does Skyloom support?
In the catalog
Skyloom is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Press one key, pick a sky, keep playing. No resource pack shuffling, no restart, no config files. Minecraft's sky is the same blue box in every world you ever load. Skyloom puts a menu in front of it. Open it with I, pick a sky from a list, and the world above your head changes on the spot. Change your mind ten…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/skyloom
- Owner
- yxusuf05
- Published
- 2026-08-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15