Create: Realistic Lighting

Create: Realistic Lighting

Stable Release: v1.0.1 | Minecraft 1.21.1 | NeoForge

Bring realistic, functional lighting to your Minecraft factories, workshops, homes, and industrial builds.

Create: Realistic Lighting introduces replaceable light bulbs, customizable fixtures, voltage-sensitive lighting, and native integration with Create: Power Grid.

Unlike traditional FE/RF-powered lighting mods, Create: Realistic Lighting uses Power Grid's electrical network to simulate voltage, current, resistance, and power consumption.

Features

Realistic Lighting Fixtures

Choose from three lighting fixtures:

• Industrial Cage Light — A rugged fixture for factories, warehouses, and workshops. Supports all 16 vanilla Minecraft dyes.
• Square Ceiling Light — A flush-mounted fixture for modern interiors.
• Wall Sconce — Wall-mounted lighting for hallways, workshops, and decorative spaces.

Fixtures support replaceable bulbs, persistent settings, and electrical connections.

Four Replaceable Bulb Types

Bulb	Default Wattage	Base Lifespan
Incandescent	60 W	30 Minecraft days
Fluorescent	30 W	90 Minecraft days
LED	15 W	300 Minecraft days
Grow	45 W	90 Minecraft days

Each bulb has its own characteristics:

• Incandescent: Traditional lighting that gradually dims under reduced voltage.
• Fluorescent: Efficient lighting with low-voltage flicker behavior.
• LED: Long-lasting lighting with extended, omnidirectional illumination.
• Grow: Specialized lighting that helps accelerate nearby crop growth.

Bulbs accumulate wear during operation. Their remaining lifespan is preserved when removed and reinstalled.

Native Create: Power Grid Integration

Create: Realistic Lighting uses Create: Power Grid's electrical system exclusively.

Features include:

• Native Power Grid wire connections.
• Voltage, current, and power measurements.
• Electrical consumption based on bulb type.
• Configurable nominal operating voltage.
• Voltage-dependent lighting behavior.
• Accelerated wear and burnout under excessive voltage.
• Redstone-controlled electrical operation.

The default nominal operating voltage is 120 V.

NEW in v1.0.1 — Configurable Bulb Wattage

Server administrators and modpack creators can now configure the electrical consumption of each bulb independently.

Default wattages remain unchanged from v1.0.0, ensuring compatibility with existing installations.

Edit the mod's TOML configuration:

[electrical.bulbWattage]
    incandescentWatts = 60.0
    fluorescentWatts = 30.0
    ledWatts = 15.0
    growWatts = 45.0

Each bulb supports a configurable nominal consumption between 1 W and 1,000 W.

For example, an LED bulb can be configured to consume 25 W instead of its default 15 W.

Important:

• Wattage settings affect electrical consumption, not brightness or illumination radius.
• Base bulb lifespan and voltage-dependent behavior remain unchanged.
• Actual electrical consumption depends on the supplied voltage.
• Configuration changes require restarting Minecraft or the dedicated server.

Realistic Voltage Behavior

Bulbs react differently to electrical conditions:

• Incandescent bulbs dim as voltage decreases.
• Fluorescent, LED, and Grow bulbs exhibit low-voltage flickering behavior.
• Excessive voltage accelerates bulb wear and may cause immediate burnout.
• Voltage hysteresis helps prevent rapid switching near operating thresholds.

Extended LED Lighting

LED bulbs provide smooth, omnidirectional illumination extending up to a 24-block radius, with obstruction-aware supplemental lighting.

Lamp Control Interface

Every fixture includes three operating modes:

• On: Operates when sufficient power and a usable bulb are available.
• Off: Remains switched off.
• Redstone: Operates only when receiving a redstone signal and sufficient power.

The interface displays voltage, current, power consumption, and remaining bulb lifespan.

Configuration and Accessibility

Electrical settings are managed through TOML configuration files.

Client-side flicker effects can be disabled for accessibility. Flicker is visual and does not repeatedly change world light levels.

Configuration changes require a restart.

Requirements

• Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.x
• Create 6.0.10 or newer compatible build
• Create: Power Grid 0.6.2 or newer compatible build
• Java 21

Install any additional dependencies required by your selected Create and Power Grid versions.

Installation

1. Install Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge.
2. Install Create and Create: Power Grid.
3. Place create_realistic_lighting-1.0.1.jar in your mods folder.
4. Launch Minecraft.

For multiplayer, install the required mods on both server and client.

Development and Support

Create: Realistic Lighting is a stable release project under continued development.

Latest release: v1.0.1

Source code, releases, and issue reporting:

https://github.com/Gunner76th/Create-Realistic-Lighting

Please report reproducible issues with relevant logs and mod versions.

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Light your factories. Power your workshops. Build with realism.

Create: Realistic Lighting is independently developed by Gunner76th and licensed under MIT.