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Night's Light

Mod

by doctorg_mystsery

This mod adds working Fireflies to Minecraft!

Downloads

68,869

Type

Mod

CurseForge ID

665555

Last Updated

Apr 12, 2026

Description

Banner - created among other with Blockbench and Minecraft Title Generator Plugin

Banner among others created with Blockbench and the Minecraft Title Generator

Source Code - Issue Tracker

 

Night's Light adds realistic, working fireflies to Minecraft. Made for Forge (1.20.1 and below) and NeoForge (1.20.4 and onwards - coming soon).

 

Thank you! For now over 10 k downloads. 

Next milestone: 50 k downloads

 

!!!NEWS!!!

Version 1.20.4 and upwards will all be for NeoForge. 1.20.4 will come out when Citadel(not out yet) and JEI(out) is ported to 1.20.4 NeoForge

There will probably be no Version 1.20.2 or 1.20.3, because neither Citadel nor JEI support these Versions for NeoForge

Support for 1.19.4 is now finally out! But that's not all: also support for 1.20 and 1.20.1 is now out too.

 

 

Features

  • fireflies avoid water
  • they emit light
  • random flickering system
  • only emit light at daytime
  • spawn egg of fireflies integrated
  • configurable spawn biomes, weight and min - max group count
  • animated firefly lanterns with multiple levels
  • firefly in glass
  • colored firefly lanterns

 

!!!IMPORTANT!!!

if you have EVER USED the MOD in a LOWER VERSION before, you HAVE TO DELET the 'firefly_spawns.json' MANUALY, start minecraft with the mod again and than the file will recreate itself, otherwise the fireflies will not spawn!!!

 

EXPLANATION SPAWNING CONFIG UP TO 1.18.2 HERE

EXPLANATION SPAWNING CONFIG SINCE 1.19 HERE

 

You can find the fireflies by default in these bioms:

  • SWAMP
  • FOREST
  • JUNGLE
  • JUNGLE_EDGE
  • JUNGLE_HILLS
  • BIRCH_FOREST
  • BIRCH_FOREST_HILLS
  • TALL_BIRCH_FOREST
  • TALL_BIRCH_HILLS
  • DARK_FOREST
  • DARK_FOREST_HILLS
  • FLOWER_FOREST
  • SAVANNA
  • SAVANNA_PLATEAU
  • SHATTERED_SAVANNA_PLATEAU
  • SHATTERED_SAVANNA
  • SWAMP_HILLS

 

Planned

Currently there is no more feature planned, but feel free to write suggestions in the issue tab on github or in the curseforge comments

I will continue to port the mod to the latest version

 

Note

This is the first mod I ever made (except for the learning mods) and also one of my first big Java projects, so for some the code could be horrible. Im open for suggestions for improvement and ideas!

 

 

FAQ

Q: Will there be a Fabric Version?

A: There is no fabric version planned.

 

Q: Can I add this mod to my modpack?

A: Feel free to add this mod to your modpack.


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