Waylight
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Carry a client-only vanilla lantern on your hip or in hand with dynamic light and physics!
Includes a large focus on traversing worlds with enhanced world generation, structures, dungeons, and more for players to find unique loot.
Includes quality of life improvements and small tweaks to enhance and customize gameplay.
Fabric is a mod loader for versions 1.14+ of Minecraft, particularly popular for client side and optimization mods.
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A client-side virtual lantern mod for Fabric, giving your player configurable vanilla lantern carry visuals with localized dynamic light and no inventory item requirement.
Built for Minecraft
1.21.11. Waylight is client-side only and does not modify server-side gameplay.
Waylight includes:
- Vanilla lantern and soul lantern rendering
- Carry positions: right hip, left hip, and left hand
- First-person and third-person lantern behavior
- Procedural carry motion with configurable intensity
- Light emission localized to the lantern rig via LambDynamicLights
- Optional auto-equip in darkness and auto-unequip in brightness
- Underwater extinguish behavior
- Full Mod Menu + YACL configuration UI
If you encounter any issues, please report them here.
Controls
G: Toggle lantern on/off
Config Highlights
- Lantern type:
LanternorSoul Lantern - Lantern position:
Right Hip,Left Hip, orLeft Hand - First-person light toggle
- First-person hand motion:
PhysicsorStatic - Auto-light behavior with threshold (
0-15) - Motion intensity slider (
25%-200%) - Debug anchor gizmo toggle
Config is saved at config/waylight.json.
Requirements
- Minecraft
1.21.11 - Java
21+ - Fabric Loader
>=0.18.4 - Fabric API
- LambDynamicLights
>=4.9.1+1.21.11 - Optional: Mod Menu
Behavior Notes
- Waylight is virtual and does not require a real lantern item.
- In left-hand mode, the lantern suppresses if you are swimming or your offhand is occupied.
- With
Extinguish Underwaterenabled, the lantern can remain visible while light output is disabled. - In first-person hip modes, the model is hidden by default;
First-Person Lightcontrols whether light remains active.
License
LGPL-3.0-or-later (see LICENSE).
A client-side virtual lantern mod for Fabric, giving your player configurable vanilla lantern carry visuals with localized dynamic light and no inventory item requirement.
Built for Minecraft
1.21.11. Waylight is client-side only and does not modify server-side gameplay.
Waylight includes:
- Vanilla lantern and soul lantern rendering
- Carry positions: right hip, left hip, and left hand
- First-person and third-person lantern behavior
- Procedural carry motion with configurable intensity
- Light emission localized to the lantern rig via LambDynamicLights
- Optional auto-equip in darkness and auto-unequip in brightness
- Underwater extinguish behavior
- Full Mod Menu + YACL configuration UI
If you encounter any issues, please report them here.
Controls
G: Toggle lantern on/off
Config Highlights
- Lantern type:
LanternorSoul Lantern - Lantern position:
Right Hip,Left Hip, orLeft Hand - First-person light toggle
- First-person hand motion:
PhysicsorStatic - Auto-light behavior with threshold (
0-15) - Motion intensity slider (
25%-200%) - Debug anchor gizmo toggle
Config is saved at config/waylight.json.
Requirements
- Minecraft
1.21.11 - Java
21+ - Fabric Loader
>=0.18.4 - Fabric API
- LambDynamicLights
>=4.9.1+1.21.11 - Optional: Mod Menu
Behavior Notes
- Waylight is virtual and does not require a real lantern item.
- In left-hand mode, the lantern suppresses if you are swimming or your offhand is occupied.
- With
Extinguish Underwaterenabled, the lantern can remain visible while light output is disabled. - In first-person hip modes, the model is hidden by default;
First-Person Lightcontrols whether light remains active.
License
LGPL-3.0-or-later (see LICENSE).
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Config Menu Config Menu -
First-Person View First-Person View -
Lantern on Hip Lantern on Hip -
Holding Lantern Holding Lantern
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Holding Lantern Holding Lantern -
Lantern on Hip Lantern on Hip -
First-Person View First-Person View -
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