Wick - Smooth & Dynamic Lights

Wick

Dynamic lights for Minecraft. Hold a torch, lantern or lava bucket and the world lights up around you as you walk. A dropped torch keeps shining on the ground, burning mobs light their surroundings, and blazes glow in the dark.

Wick is a small client-side mod for Fabric, NeoForge and Forge. Nothing needs to be installed on the server. It works with Sodium, Embeddium and Iris shaders.

What gives light

• Held and worn items - torches, lanterns, glowstone, sea lanterns, lava buckets, blaze rods and any other glowing item, in either hand or on your head (a jack o'lantern helmet works). Endermen carrying a glowing block glow too.
• Accessory slots - a lantern on your belt or a glowing charm in a Curios or Trinkets slot shines like a held one. Neither mod is required.
• Other players and mobs - a zombie carrying a torch lights its way too. Turn this off to keep only your own light.
• Dropped and displayed items - a torch on the ground, in an item frame or on an item or block display keeps glowing.
• Burning entities - anything on fire lights its surroundings, flaming arrows included.
• Glowing mobs and things - blazes, magma cubes, glow squid, fireballs, wither skulls, spectral arrows, lit TNT, lightning, end crystals, furnace minecarts with fuel, falling glowing blocks, and creepers about to explode.
• Enchanted glow (off by default) - enchanted weapons, tools, armor and books give off a faint glow, and so does anything else with the enchantment shimmer.

How the light behaves

• Walls block light - light stops at solid blocks, so your torch does not shine through into the next room or the cave below, but it still wraps around corners and through doorways, dimmer for the longer way. Glass, leaves, slabs and doors let it through.
• Water puts out flames - torches and campfires go dark underwater; lanterns and glowstone keep shining.
• Smooth light - light fades evenly in a circle instead of in blocky steps, with Sodium too.

Works with other mods

• Glowing blocks and mobs from any mod light up when held, dropped or walking around.
• Wick reads LambDynamicLights' resource pack light files, so items and mobs that a mod or resource pack already set up for LambDynamicLights glow with Wick as well.
• Sodium, Embeddium and Iris shader packs are supported.

Built to stay fast

Only the chunk sections a light can reach are rebuilt, and only when a light moves to another block. Update speed, range and a cap on the number of lights are all adjustable.

Supported versions

Loader	Minecraft versions
Fabric	1.20 to 26.3
NeoForge	1.21 to 26.3
Forge	1.20.1

Install

Fabric: put Fabric API and the Fabric Wick jar for your version in your mods folder. Add Mod Menu to get the settings screen (Mods > Wick > Configure).

NeoForge and Forge: put the Wick jar for your loader and version in your mods folder. No other mods are needed. The settings screen is in Mods > Wick > Config.

Controls

Key	Default	What it does
Turn Dynamic Lights On/Off	not bound	Switch every dynamic light on or off

Set it in Options > Controls > Key Binds, or with the Key Binds... button in Wick's settings.

Settings

Setting	Range	Default	What it does
Dynamic Lights	on / off	on	Turn every dynamic light off at once
Held & Worn Items	on / off	on	Glowing items in hand, on the head or in an accessory slot
Other Players & Mobs	on / off	on	Let others light their surroundings with what they hold
Dropped Items	on / off	on	Items on the ground, in item frames and on displays
Burning Entities	on / off	on	Anything on fire gives light
Glowing Mobs	on / off	on	Blazes, magma cubes, glow squid, fireballs and more
Water Puts Out Flames	on / off	on	Torches and campfires go dark underwater
Walls Block Light	on / off	on	Light stops at solid blocks and goes around corners
Enchanted Glow	on / off	off	Enchanted items give off a faint glow
Updates	Every Tick / Fast / Slow	Every Tick	How often lights follow their source
Range	16 - 128 blocks	64	Lights further away stay dark
Max Lights	4 - 128	48	The most dynamic lights at once, nearest first

Settings are saved in config/wick.json. You can also set any item's brightness there, for example "items": { "minecraft:stick": 12 }.

Known issues

• NeoForge with Iris and a shader pack turned on crashes on the first frame. This is an Iris bug (Iris #3374) and happens without Wick too. Iris on Fabric works.

Source and issues

Source code and bug reports: github.com/comedy01/Wick

License

MIT