Starlight with Create Fix
Modby Project8gbDeRam
Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors
Type
Mod
CurseForge Downloads
49,634
CurseForge ID
1438426
Last Updated
Apr 13, 2026
Description
Starlight with Create Fix
This is a backport of the 1.20.2 version of the mod by Spottedleaf which contains the Create fix
Forge mod for rewriting the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors.
Compatibility
Starlight can be installed either on the dedicated server or client. It is not required to be installed on both sides. If you have Starlight on the server, clients can use Vanilla/Phosphor/Starlight to connect. Likewise, if you have Starlight on the client, you can connect to Vanilla/Phosphor/Starlight servers.
Starlight cannot be installed with Phosphor, they are completely incompatible. Browsing through Starlight's Issue Tracker will show further mod incompatibilities. Starlight is a rather destructive light engine rewrite, so it should be expected to break mods more often.
Purpose
Starlight was developed for higher scale dedicated servers, as they suffered performance problems due to how ungodly slow the light engine was. The only solution was to create an extremely invasive mod which rewrote the entire light engine. I ported the mod to fabric so that I can update it during snapshots, and decided that publishing it for all users, especially client users, would be beneficial. However, it does have the downside of being an invasive mod: Being invasive didn't affect higher scale servers because they run on Bukkit.
Further reading on the technical details of how Starlight achieves its performance can be read here: TECHNICAL_DETAILS.md
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