Beam Lights

Beam Lights

Flashlights that actually light what you point at.

Most dynamic light mods give a held light a round glow around the player. Beam Lights turns a flashlight, a helmet lamp or a headlight into a directional beam: the spot you aim at is lit, and so is the path along the way.

Features

• Real beam light – the hit point becomes a dynamic light; points along the ray and side rays inside the cone are optional.
• Cone light (with LambDynamicLights) – a soft cone of light along the beam when you are indoors.
• Indoor / outdoor layouts – indoors you get the cone and one ray layout; outdoors (far hit, open sky) a lighter layout. Switching uses hysteresis, so the light never flickers at the edge.
• Ray patterns – single ray, triangle, cross, ring, double ring, horizontal/vertical fan, or your own custom rays.
• Smooth and light on FPS – lights glide and cross-fade, update less while you turn fast, and a per-tick change budget keeps chunk rebuilds low. Presets: quality, balanced, performance.
• Mobs (server game rules) – no natural monster spawns inside a lit beam (on by default); optional weak attraction of idle mobs to the lit spot (off by default).

Compatibility

You need one dynamic lights mod (LambDynamicLights or Sodium Dynamic Lights) to see the light. Without it, spawn blocking still works on the server.

Client / server – install on the client for the light, on the server for spawn blocking, mob attraction and datapack beams. Each side works on its own: players without the mod can join a server that has it.

Make any item a light beam

Add a JSON file to a datapack, data/<namespace>/beamlights/beams/<name>.json:

{
  "items": ["minecraft:lantern", "minecraft:soul_lantern"],
  "slots": ["mainhand", "offhand"],
  "luminance": 12,
  "range": 12,
  "cone": 40,
  "color": "#FFD08A",
  "origin": { "forward": 0.3, "down": 0.3 }
}

Hands, armor and Curios slots, item tags and conditions on item components are supported.

Per-source layouts (resource pack or KubeJS)

assets/<namespace>/beamlights/layouts/<name>.json picks the layout and cone for each beam source:

{ "providers": ["omegaflashlight"], "indoor": "CENTER_ONLY", "outdoor": "TRIANGLE", "cone": true }

Press F3+T to reload.

Commands

Everything is client-side under /beamlights and saved to the config at once:

• /beamlights – status and all settings
• /beamlights on|off – quick toggle
• /beamlights layout ... – ray pattern and presets
• /beamlights cone ... – cone light, outdoor pattern, indoor/outdoor switching
• /beamlights perf preset quality|balanced|performance
• /beamlights spawns|attract on|off – server game rules (operator)
• /beamlights debug overlay on – live numbers (light changes per second, state, layout)

For developers

Java API (BeamLightsApi, BeamProvider, BeamCollectEvent), per-stack beam data in custom_data, KubeJS bindings and Maven artifacts: see the GitHub repository.

Modpacks

Free to use in any modpack.

License

Code: MIT.