- Update to Minecraft 1.18
- Added two integrated resource packs that control the firefly, glowworm and plankton texture. Two options are now available: "lowerres", a lower resolution of the firefly texture, and "pixelaccurate", a firefly texture made to look like the Minecraft Live 2021 firefly announced for the Wild Update
- Added a debug mode config option to enable debug mode logs to troubleshoot issues with cosmetics loading
- Added a new Illuminations type: Prismarine Crystals. Spawning in the shade of sea lanterns, these crystals will float underwater and oscillate between white, cyan and green.
- Added a new aura for tier 2 donators: Prismarine aura
- Added a new crown for tier 2 donators: Prismarine crown
- Fixed the texture issue with the auto-update toast
- Added a new donation toast to inform users of donation perks
- Reworked all pride hearts to now be in 3D, better looking, and spinning!
- Added Gay, Aromantic, Pansexual and Agender pride hearts
- Added 4 new pets for supporters: the floating lanterns! Available in normal lantern, soul lantern as well as crying lantern and soothing lantern (from Spawn Lanterns). They also have two cute faces and spin!
- All 3D particles are no longer shaded
- Added Pumpkin Spirits! These mischievous entities take the form of small flying Jack o' Lanterns and will act like Will o' Wisps, appearing from Jack o' Lanterns at night
- Added Poltergeists! These devious flying skulls will appear from placed skeleton skulls at night, and may also appear when you kill undead at night
- These two new spirits are also available as pets for Illuminations supporters
- Transformed the Eyes in the Dark option to Halloween Features. Eyes in the dark, Pumpkin spirits and poltergeists will now be controlled by this setting.
- Fixed an issue that caused very transparent particles to not appear ruining the intended design of several auras and effects
- Illuminations will now be able to spawn much further from the player.
- This change dilutes illumination density and dispersion them more, but also increases the ambient immersion, as you will no longer have the feeling illuminations only appear in a 16 block radius around you!
- Fixed illuminations spawning in blocks other than air
- Fixed Jacko pet lighting up during the day and lighting off during the night
- Fixed an issue that cause the greeting screen to always show
- Fixed fireflies not spawning at night if the world time is invalid
- Added new biome settings tabs for Overworld, Nether, End and Other dimensions to modify firefly, glowworm and plankton spawn rates and firefly colors for each biome category!
- Added spawn rate settings for eyes in the dark, will o' wisps and chorus petals
- Added options for fireflies to spawn every time of day and underground
- Added a custom rainbow mode options for fireflies!
All of this update was entirely made by a community member: Boerdereinar, so big kudos and thanks to them!
- Optimized mod assets thanks to RDKRACZ!
- Added indonesian localization thanks to suryomujahid!
- Made a minor refactor for eventual mod compatibility features
- Added two new auras for tier 2 donators: Confetti and Prismatic Confetti
- These auras will sprinkle confetti around the player, that will stay on the ground for around 20 seconds!
- Normal confetti aura will spawn randomly colored confetti, prismatic confetti aura will spawn confetti according to the player's color
- Fixed config button not showing up in Mod Menu
- Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur with Satin API installed
- Added "jeb_" mobs:
- Any mob named jeb will be applied a glowing rainbow effect shifting its colors gradually
- Requires Satin API (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/satin-api). If Satin API is present, the functionality will be enabled. If Satin is not present, the functionality will be disabled.
- The functionality will not work if Canvas Renderer is present.
- The functionality is incompatible with Iris. If Iris is present, the functionality will be disabled.
- Fixed the game crashing on startup if Iris is loaded
- Removed an annoying log spam every time the player reloads Illuminations cosmetics
- Updated to Minecraft 1.17.1
- Updated to Minecraft 1.17
- Added a config option to see your own cosmetics in first person
- Added Will o' Wisps! Inhabiting Soul Sand Valleys, these wandering spirits roam the dead fields and will appear, phase through and disappear into soul sand.
- Will o' Wisps can also spawn from Soul Lanterns so you can use them for an eerie or magical ambience outside of soul sand valleys
- Added pets for Illuminations donators:
- Added Will o' Wisp, Golden Will, Founding Skull and the classic Dissolution Wisp pets
- All free pride overheads and Jacko have been converted into pets
- Reduced eyes in the dark spawn chances tenfold
- Fixed eyes in the dark not glowing
- Removed Vanguard and replaced it for an internal auto-updater, as well as making that auto-updater opt-in
- Added a first time greeting screen for the user to choose if they want to enable the auto-updates or not
- Added the Lesbian, Bi, Ace, NB and Intersex pride free overheads thanks to JothGC Get them for free at https://illuminations.uuid.gg/pride
- Fixed an issue that caused the prismatic color to not be retrieved from the dashboard
- Fixed the bad UV mapping of the Summerbreeze Wreath and the Voidhearrt Tiara crowns
- Fixed Drip only appearing when invisible
- Added the Illuminations contest winning crowns and auras for tier 2 donators
- Added the Voidheart Tiara and Shadowbringer Soul aura by azazelthedemonlord
- Added the Deepsculk Horns, Springfae Horns and Worldweaver Halo overheads by ArathainFarqoe
- Added the Glowsquid Cult and Time Aspect Cult crowns by Heather Shadelight
- Added the Golden Rod aura and Summerbreaze Wreath overhead by 24Chrome
- Added the Sculk Tendrils and Autumn Leaves auras by SekoiaTree
- Added a color customizable Drip cosmetic for over-generous donators
- Fixed chorus petals not uniformly rotating
- Improved log output when having trouble with cosmetics
- Illuminations cosmetics will now be reloaded upon a player joining a world, no longer needing to restart the game in order to see changes
- Fixed an issue that caused fireflies not to spawn if time is set to something greater than 24000
- Updated to Vanguard 1.0.5
- Updated to Vanguard 1.0.4
- Removed the no longer used auto-update config option
- Updated to Vanguard 1.0.1
- Added missing Canvas compatibility with the Chorus aura
- Switched from the integrated auto-updater to Vanguard
- Added three new occult-themed crowns for tier 2 donators: Bloodfiend, Dreadlich and Mooncult, all desgined by ArathainFarqoe!
- Introduced Chorus Petals: appearing near Chorus flowers, these beautiful petals will twirl down to the ground, to the winds of the End, transitioning from a beautiful white to a majestic purple
- The younger the flower is, the more petals will appear
- Breaking a Chorus flower will provoke a burst of petals
- Again, the younger the flower, the more petals will burst
- Added the Chorus aura for Tier 2 donators
- Added the Chorus crown for Tier 2 donators
- Fixed an issue where illuminations would not glow in the dark without Canvas
- Added a firefly white alpha config options
- Controls the alpha value of the white center glow for fireflies, glowworms, plankton and twilight aura fireflies (0 is no white center, 100 is a full alpha white center)
- Fixed an issue where values under 100 for illumination spawn density would prevent spawn entirely
- Fixed an issue where the config file would only generate with ModMenu loaded
- Tweaked firefly render
- Added proper Canvas bloom compatibility for illuminations and cosmetics
- Introduced two new unique overheads: the frost crown and the solar crown On an unrelated but still important note: the way donator rewards work has been changed.
- Instead of having special rewards depending on the time of your donation, donators will be classed into two tiers:
- Tier 1: Donations of at least 2€ will reward you with the color customizable Twilight aura
- Tier 2: Donations of at least 5€ will reward you with all other cosmetics as well as future cosmetics (as well as tier 1 rewards)
- All previous donators have been rewarded with Tier 2
- Added a "density" config option that multiplies the amount of illuminations appearing
- Added an auto-updater built into the mod : if Illuminations is outdated, it will notify you and automatically install the latest version
- Enabled by default, can be disabled via a config option
- Fixed (ONCE MORE, CAUSE I HAVE DUM) an issue where server players using Illuminations would crash upon a player with an aura dying
- This time it's fixed for good (I swear (I think (I hope)))
- Added some disgusting temporary hacks to fix an issue where illuminations would never appear if BetterEnd was installed
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash when Illuminations servers aren't reachable
- Updated to Minecraft 1.16.4
- Removed bugballs, making the mod client-only again
- Updated to Minecraft snapshot 20w45a
- Fixed an issue where server players using Illuminations would crash upon a player with an aura dying (again)
- Fixed an issue where players with an aura would crash upon dying in third person modes (again)
- Introduced a config
- Added a config option to enable, disable or always display eyes in the dark
- Eyes in the dark no longer appear if the player has night vision
- Fixed an issue with glowing eyes appearing in other dimensions than the overworld
- Added website and issue links to the mod description
- Added autumn flies: during the month of October, fireflies will be orange
- Added eyes in the dark: during the month of October, glowing eyes may appear in very dark places to creep on you
- Added the Jacko overhead
- Added the Ghostly aura
- Introduced bugballs: get them from a full composter (up to four) and throw them around to spawn fireflies! (only available if Illuminations is installed on both server and clients)
- Introduced overheads, a new type of cosmetic that can be equipped independently of auras and will float over your head
- Added the Pride and Trans Pride overheads, obtainable for free at https://illuminations.uuid.gg/pride
- Fixed an issue where server players using Illuminations would crash upon a player with an aura dying
- Fixed an issue where players with an aura would crash upon dying in third person modes
- Updated to Minecraft 1.16.3
- Restricted firefly spawn between daily times 13000 and 23000 (previously was between 13000 and 1000)
- Updated to Minecraft 1.16.2
- Fixed an issue that caused illuminations to be incorrectly rendered with higher resolution resource packs
- Added an offline mode so the mod doesn't crash when unable to contact the Illuminations server
- Introduced prismatic auras, auras that you can change the color of on the Illuminations dashboard
- Made the twilight aura prismatic
- Fixed an issue where the game would crash upon loading the mod with Sodium
The great overhaul is here! Illuminations is now client only for better performance, spawn control, and the ability to connect to vanilla servers with it.
- Illuminations are now particles instead of entities, enjoy being able having ten million fireflies without your server committing seppuku
- Fireflies will now appear regularly in varying quantities depending on the various biomes instead of clouds
- Added glowworms, illuminations that will stick to cave ceilings
- Added glowing plankton, illuminations that will spawn in the dark sea depths
- Removed firefly grass and firefly lantern blocks, glowmeal and firefly items and firefly grass world features
- Introduced auras, special Illuminations effects around the player visible to other players that have the mod. These auras are currently a bonus for donators but some may be available through giveaways and other special events in the future.
- Added the Twilight aura
- Updated to Minecraft 1.16.1 (thanks to Bulldog83 for the contribution!)
- Updated to Minecraft snapshot 20w06a
- Reduced firefly AI tasks (light checking, despawn checking)
- Removed firefly render distance limit
- Removed the bug net
- Fireflies are now catchable by hand
- Firefly flickering animations are now paused when the game is paused
- Increased firefly in a bottle light strength from 10 to 15 (now equivalent to a lantern)
- Recipes for firefly grass (short and tall) and firefly in a bottle now unlocks upon getting a firefly for the first time
- Recipe for glow meal now unlocks upon getting lime dye, glowstone dust or bone meal
- Updated to Minecraft 1.15.1
- Added glow meal
- Crafted from a lime dye, bone meal and glowstone dust
- When used on grass, grows firefly grass
- Updated to Minecraft 1.14.3
- Added Firefly grass (and Firefly tall grass)
- Generates in the world in plain, swamp, forest, jungle, savanna and river biomes
- Acts exactly like normal grass and tall grass
- Has a luminosity of 1
- Can be crafted from one Grass and one Firefly
- Completely change Firefly spawning mechanics
- Fireflies no longer spawn randomly, but now spawn from Firefly grass during night
- Fireflies are now very common to see in their habitat biomes
- Optimize firefly spawns and despawns, greatly decreasing the lag caused by the mod
- Fireflies now disappear on daytime
- Added trail particles to Will o' Wisps
- Reduced Firefly health to 1
- Added french localization
- Updated to Minecraft 1.14.2
- Fixed the bug where mip map levels wouldn't work
- Completely removed the experimental items
- Added Firefly in a bottle
- Added Bug Net (can be used to capture Fireflies by attacking them)
- Added Firefly item
- Removed experimental items (nests, throwable Will o' Wisp...) from the creative inventory
- Updated to Minecraft 1.14.1
- Updated to Minecraft 1.14
- Updated to Minecraft snapshot 19w14b
- Added firefly and lightning bug nests: acts as a spawner for fireflies and lightning bugs during night
- Updated to Minecraft snapshot 19w11b (thanks Fab!)
- Implemented Will o' Wisps, flaming spirits spawning in swamps at night (experimental)
- Will o' Wisps are catchable
- Will o' Wisps (in a player's hand) can be thrown
- Updated to Minecraft snapshot 19w02a
- Fixed server side crashing on startup
- Ported to Fabric mod loader (only fireflies and lightning bugs)
- Corrected firefly spawn rates
- Fireflies now flicker
- Changed the name of the mod from Lumen to Illuminations.
see full changelog here