# Powered Flashlight<\/p>\n
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A handheld flashlight item for Minecraft. Supports lighting APIs like **Lucent** or **Embeddium\/Rubidium Dynamic Lights**.<\/p>\n
## Description<\/p>\n
A handheld flashlight for your adventures into the darkness. Requires energy to function. This mod does not provide any means of charging a flashlight but offers support for *Forge Energy* instead, hence a flashlight can be charged with any chargers from different mods with Forge Energy support. Provides configurations to adjust the properties and behaviour of a flashlight.<\/p>\n
**Tip:** Setting `energyDrainPerTick` to `0` will disable the energy requirement completely.<\/p>\n
## Dynamic Lighting<\/p>\n
The mod currently supports 3 different dynamic lighting systems:<\/p>\n
– Embeddium\/Rubidium Dynamic Lights: Very smooth, good performance, some minor visual tradoffs (my personal preference)
\n– Lucent: Smooth enough, good performance, *vanilla-esque*
\n– Vanilla: Relatively smooth, ok performance, vanilla lighting system using light blocks<\/p>\n
> Simply install any of the above mentioned mods alongside this mod. If no additional (supported) lighting mod is installed on the client the vanilla-system is used.<\/p>\n
**Important:** I’ve noticed a few visual lighting artifacts using **Embeddium\/Rubidium Dynamic Lights** version **1.6.0** in Minecraft **1.20.1** when moving the light from the flashlight quickly over surfaces. I did not have this issue with **Embeddium\/Rubidium Dynamic Lights** version **1.5.0** though this might aswell be tied to my setup and\/or system (e.g. graphics card). In case you run into similar issues I’d recommend to try a different version of the dynamic lighting mod.<\/p>\n
**Make sure entity lighting is enabled when using a dynamic lighting mod.**<\/p>\n
## Server\/Client Lighting<\/p>\n
This mod supports different lighting APIs hence multiple clients connected to the same server might have different lighting mods installed. Following example illustrates how these situations are handled:<\/p>\n
– Player A has no dynamic lighting mod installed
\n– Player B has Lucent installed<\/p>\n
Player A will see his lighting and the lighting casted by a flashlight from Player B with the fallback **Vanilla Lighting System**.<\/p>\n
Player B will see his lighting and the lighting casted by a flashlight from Player A with the **Lucent Lighting System**.<\/p>\n
## Crafting<\/p>\n
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## FAQ<\/p>\n
### Why are all config options server side?<\/p>\n
Since the light distribution requires to spawn and manage *light entities* on the server it would for instance be a bad idea to allow clients to set the *light distance* to an arbitrary large value (hence requiring the server to spawn a large amount of light entities). Another *advantage* of the configs beeing server side is that the flashlights behave the same for everyone.<\/p>\n
### Can I use this mod in my modpack?<\/p>\n
Yes, go ahead.<\/p>\n
### Will you add Fabric support?<\/p>\n
Maybe at some point, but I cannot give you a date right now.<\/p>\n
### Will you add support for earlier minecraft versions (< 1.19)?\n\nNo.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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