Colored Light

Colored Light

Block light that takes on the color of whatever gives it off. Torches glow warm, soul fire glows blue, redstone glows red, and light shining through stained glass picks up the color of the glass. You can also give any light source, including blocks from other mods, a color of your own.

Features

Every light has its own color

Torches, lanterns, campfires and fire glow warm orange. Soul torches and soul fire glow blue, redstone glows red, froglights glow in their own colors, and sea lanterns and beacons glow cool white. Where two lights overlap, their colors blend.

Stained glass tints light

Put a light behind stained glass and the light that passes through it takes on the glass color, so a lamp behind magenta glass lights the room magenta.

Pick any color for any light

Open Block Colors… in the settings to give any light-emitting block a new color. Use the hue, saturation and brightness sliders, type a hex code, or click a preset. The world updates right away.

Works with modded lights

Every light source in the game is listed, from Minecraft and from every mod you have installed. Blocks the mod doesn't know yet glow a neutral warm white until you choose a color for them.

• One button per mod. Click a mod to see only its lights, or reset that mod's colors in one go.
• Search everything. Search matches block names, ids and mod names, word by word, so "blue lamp" finds Macaw's Blue Lamp, Blue Ceiling Light and so on.
• Custom only. A filter shows just the blocks you have changed, and changed blocks are marked with *.

Tune it

• Color Intensity goes from a faint hint of color to fully saturated.
• Glass Strength sets how strongly stained glass tints light.
• Stained Glass Tint can be turned off entirely.

Built to stay fast

The color is added in the terrain shader, so no chunks are ever rebuilt, not even when you change a color.

Compatibility

Loader	Minecraft versions
Fabric	1.18.2, 1.19 to 26.3
NeoForge	1.21 to 26.3
Forge	1.16.5, 1.18.2, 1.19.2, 1.20.1

• Sodium and Embeddium: supported.
• Iris: with a shader pack on, the pack's terrain is tinted too (Iris on 26.3; on older Iris versions the shader pack's own lighting shows instead).
• Mod Menu (Fabric): opens the settings with Mods > Colored Light > Configure. On Forge and NeoForge, use Mods > Colored Light > Config.
• Client-side only: nothing to install on the server, and it works on any server.
• Fabric API is not required.

FAQ

Does it work on servers? Yes. Colored Light only changes how your client draws light, so it works on any server, vanilla included.

A modded lamp glows white. How do I change it? Open Block Colors…, search for the lamp or click its mod, and pick a color.

Where are my custom colors saved? In config/coloredlight.json. You can copy that file to share your colors with other players or modpacks.

Why does a little color leak around corners? Color is worked out from the nearest lights around the camera rather than traced block by block, so a little color can spill around corners next to stained glass.

Embeddium on Forge 1.20.1 logs a warning about a mod changing its internals. That's Colored Light adding its color to Embeddium's terrain shader. It's harmless.