Handheld Lights

Carry a torch or lantern and the cave lights up around you as you walk

FreeGameplay mod in Mining & gathering

Install183 KB add-on How to install Build a world with this in the app

Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.45 and newer

Android
iPhone and iPad
Windows

.mcaddon file, 183 KB. Consoles and Java Edition can’t import packs.

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What’s inside

Glow Stick

Mod version: 0.1.0
Updated: September 2026

What it does

Pick up a torch, a lantern, a block of glowstone or any of the 28 vanilla light sources this mod knows, and hold it: the space around you lights up just as if you had placed it, and the light follows you about 10 times a second. Each light shines at its own placed brightness: 15 for lanterns, glowstone, sea lanterns, shroomlights, froglights, jack o'lanterns, campfires and lava buckets, 14 for torches, copper torches, end rods and glow berries, 10 for soul torches and soul lanterns, 7 for redstone torches. With a light in each hand, the brighter one wins.

For diving, craft Glow Sticks: glowstone dust above prismarine crystals above a stick, in one column of a crafting table, makes 2. A Glow Stick shines at 15, the brightest there is, fits in the off hand beside a sword or a pickaxe, and, held in your main hand, keeps shining underwater, where every other held light goes dark. Swim on and the water it lit is left just as it was.

Throw a light-source item on the ground and it lights the floor where it lies until you pick it up or it despawns, so you can toss a torch down a shaft to see what is below. Dropped lights shine while a player is within 48 blocks, up to 64 of them at once.

The light only fills empty air, or still water for the Glow Stick: it never replaces plants, cobwebs, flowing water or any other block. Bedrock only lets a few items into the off hand, so most vanilla lights are held in the main hand; a light put in the off hand by a command also shines. If the world closes while a light is shining, it is cleared the next time that place is loaded.

28 vanilla light sources, from torches and lanterns to glowstone, froglights and lava buckets
Light levels 15, 14, 10 or 7, each matching the block when placed
Glow Stick: 1 glowstone dust, 1 prismarine crystals and 1 stick make 2, shining at 15 in either hand, and underwater from your main hand
Follows you 10 times a second, in the Overworld, the Nether and the End
Dropped lights shine on the ground within 48 blocks of a player, up to 64 at once
Lights only empty air, and still water for the Glow Stick: never plants or other blocks

How to craft it

Glow Stick
Crafting table, makes 2
- Glowstone dust ×1
- Prismarine crystals ×1
- Stick ×1
1 wide and 3 tall, anywhere on the grid. Top row: Glowstone dust. Middle row: Prismarine crystals. Bottom row: Stick.

How to install Handheld Lights

Import the .mcaddon, then turn on both packs in your world's settings (Behavior Packs and Resource Packs). No experiments are needed.
Hold a torch, lantern, glowstone, sea lantern, shroomlight or another light source in your hand and walk into a cave: the blocks around you light up and the light moves with you.
To light your way underwater, craft Glow Sticks on a crafting table: glowstone dust in the top square, prismarine crystals below it and a stick below that makes 2. Hold one in your main hand and swim.
Switch to any other item to put the light out.
Drop a light source (press Q on Windows, or hold the item in your hotbar on touch screens) and the ground around it stays lit until you pick it back up.

What changed

0.1.024 September 2026
First release

Which version do I have?

Minecraft Bedrock shows its version number in the bottom-right corner of the main menu. Everything on ModChest is built for Bedrock 1.26.45 and newer, on Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows. If your number is lower, update Minecraft from the store you installed it from, then import the mod.

Step-by-step for your device

Where the file lands, how to open it with Minecraft, and what to do if the import fails.