Source-checkedGameplay & overhauls

Totally Lit

by realguyman · for Minecraft

Brings realistic/hardcore mechanics to torches, candles, lanterns, campfires, and jack o' lanterns in a configurable way.

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LGPL-3.0-or-laterLicense
Fabric · QuiltLoaders

About Totally Lit

From Modrinth

Brings realistic/hardcore mechanics to torches, candles, lanterns, campfires, and jack o' lanterns in a configurable way.

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Designed to fit into Minecraft's lore as closely as possible, while providing a more challenging early game experience and encouraging players to use powered, magical, and bioluminescent light sources.

An open source mod built for Fabric (works on Quilt, too). Requires Fabric API and owo-lib. For more in-depth information regarding the project, read the wiki 📖.

Inspired by Realistic Torches, thank you MattCzyr!

✨ Features

  • 💡 Dynamic lighting is fully supported with LambDynamicLights.
  • 🌧 Candles and torches will extinguish when rained on.
  • ⏳ Campfires, candles, jack o' lanterns, lanterns, and torches will extinguish over time.
  • 🔥 Bring unlit torches to life during your adventures with fire, lava (flowing, standing, or even in a cauldron!), or flint and steel.
  • 🏊 Wading, swimming, fully submerging in water, or getting rained on can cause jack o'lanterns, lanterns, and torches to extinguish.
  • 💪 Glowstone lanterns and torches for mid/late-game which are waterproof and never die out.
  • 🧯 Torches, lanterns, and jack o' lanterns extinguish when stored in chests or placing in bundles.
  • 👷 Villagers prevent any extinguishing in a configurable cubed radius, no more dark villages.
  • 📄 Configurable with files or the settings page provided by integration with Mod Menu.

⛔ Compatibility

Should work with most mods that don't modify torches, lanterns, campfires, candles, and jack o' lanterns in an intrusive way.

📥 Downloads

Officially available at CurseForge, Modrinth, and GitHub.

🛣️ Roadmap

  • Finish wiki.
  • Add events for developers.
  • Extend inventory behaviours to mobs.
  • Integrate Jade tooltips.
  • Attach to Villager and Allay AI brains to ignite unlit torches, lanterns, jack 'o lanterns, and campfires in a fun way.

📜 Copyright & License

© 2025 Dale E. Wingard, Jr.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License and a copy of GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 27 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.2.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric and Quilt.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Totally Lit on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server type needed
Fabric, Quilt
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
1.2.2+26.2, released 2026-09-26

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Fabric1.21.11 to 26.2 (5 versions)26.2
Quilt1.21.11 to 26.2 (5 versions)26.2

From 5 recorded builds of Totally Lit.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.2.2+26.22026-09-2626.2Fabric, Quilt
1.2.2+26.12026-06-1326.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions)Fabric, Quilt
1.2.1+26.12026-06-1126.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions)Fabric, Quilt
1.2.1+1.21.112026-06-111.21.11Fabric, Quilt
1.2.0+1.21.112026-06-101.21.11Fabric, Quilt

Run Totally Lit on a Minecraft server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Gameplay & overhauls

New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Totally Lit as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
FabricQuilt
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.2 and 26 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓Authorrealguyman, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseLGPL-3.0-or-laterFree

Totally Lit, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Totally Lit?

Modrinth lists Totally Lit as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric and Quilt.

Is it free?

Yes. Totally Lit is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is LGPL-3.0-or-later.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

Run Totally Lit on a Minecraft server.

Deploy in about a minute from $4.99 a month, then add Totally Lit in one click.