Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition

Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition

Colored Lighting that works with Embeddium/Sodium, Starlight, & more!

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Screenshots

INSIDE AN END CITY
BLOCK STATE EXAMPLE
LIGHT MIXING
THE LIGHT ROOM
LIGHT ABSORBING BLOCK EXAMPLE
TWO END CITIES

About this Mod

ℹ️ Fork Information

This mod is a direct fork of erykczy's Colorful Lighting. The goal of this fork is to expand compatibility with mods, renderers, and shader packs, making colorful lighting practical for larger modpacks. If you find an incompatible mod, please report it on the GitHub Issues page.

❓ How It Works

Every light source gets a color, and that color spreads through the world just like vanilla light. Filters such as stained glass tint passing light, absorbers remove colored light, and propagation runs entirely on a background thread to keep gameplay smooth.

The mod is completely client-side, so you can enjoy colorful lighting on ANY server without requiring server installation.

✨ Features

  • Different blocks emit different colors
  • Light changes color when passing through filters
  • Blocks can absorb colored light
  • Colors are fully customizable through resource packs
  • Block states and NBT can define different colors
  • Unconfigured modded light sources automatically sample colors from their own textures
  • Water subtly filters light using biome water colors
  • 100% client-side

🎨 Resource Pack Addons

Ready-made addon packs that add colored lighting entries for popular mods:

Want to make your own? The complete resource pack guide is available on the GitHub page.

🔗 Mod Compatibility

Supported & tested mods (click to expand)
  • Embeddium: fully supported and recommended, but no longer required
  • Vanilla rendering: fully supported
  • Starlight and True Darkness: fully compatible
  • Oculus: automatic shader patching for supported shader packs, with a generic patcher for everything else
  • Dynamic light mods including Sodium Dynamic Lights, Torcy, Dynamic Lights, and especially Lively Lighting
  • Wakes: Reforged
  • Flywheel / Create
  • Valkyrien Skies
  • Epic Fight
  • Flerovium
  • AsyncParticles
  • HBM's Nuclear Tech Modernized

Found an incompatible mod? Report it on GitHub Issues!

🗺️ Roadmap

Where the project is headed (click to expand)
  • Full support for Sodium
  • Fabric, Forge and NeoForge support across Minecraft 1.20.1 through 1.26.x
  • More dedicated shader patches while keeping the generic auto-patcher as a fallback

No timelines are promised; follow the GitHub repository for progress.

⚠️ Known Issues

Known issues and planned fixes (click to expand)
  • Distant Horizons: LOD lighting is not colored yet
  • Cracker's Wither Storm Mod: currently incompatible

🔬 Want the Technical Breakdown?

The full documentation—including resource pack creation, emitters, filters, absorbers, entities, items, NBT rules, client configuration, shader patching, and implementation details—is available on the GitHub page.

Available Versions

Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition 2.7.0release
MC 1.20.1forge
August 5, 2026
Colorful Lighting (Sodium Compat) 2.6.1release
MC 1.20.1forge
July 5, 2026
Colorful Lighting (Sodium Compat) 2.6.0release
MC 1.20.1forge
July 5, 2026
Colorful Lighting (Sodium Compat) 2.5.2release
MC 1.20.1forge
July 4, 2026
Colorful Lighting (Sodium Compat) 2.5.0release
MC 1.20.1forge
July 3, 2026

How to Install Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition on Your Client

1

Install the Mod Loader Locally

Install forge for your local Minecraft version.

2

Download the Matching File

Choose the Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition file for forge and Minecraft 1.20.1.

3

Install Mod

Place the .jar file in your local .minecraft/mods folder and restart Minecraft. No server-side installation is required.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

forge

Minecraft Versions

1.20.1

Server-side

Unsupported

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition need to be installed on the Minecraft server?

No. Modrinth marks Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition as unsupported on the server side. Install it only in your local Minecraft mods folder. Your server can remain unchanged unless the mod page lists an additional dependency.

Which version and loader does Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition require?

Use a file for forge and your exact Minecraft version. Supported versions include 1.20.1. Files for different loaders are not interchangeable.

Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition is not working – what should I check?

First check the Minecraft version, loader version and required dependencies. Put the .jar file in your local .minecraft/mods folder and remove older duplicates. Because this mod is client-side, adding server RAM will not fix it.

Minecraft Server for Your Group

Colorful Lighting: Sodium/Embeddium Edition stays on your client. Host a compatible world for your group.

Recommended RAM
4 GBfrom €5.2/mo
Minimum 3 GB | per 8 players
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Client Compatibility Guide
NVMe SSD Storage
DDoS Protection included

Details

License
MIT License
Server-side
Unsupported

Supported Versions

1.20.1