Mining Headlamp

Light up caves around you as you walk, with no torches to place

Early accessItem mod in Mining & gathering and Navigation & info

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Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.45 and newer

Android
iPhone and iPad
Windows

Consoles and Java Edition can’t import packs.

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What’s inside

Mining Headlamp

Mod version: 0.1.0
Updated: September 2026

What it does

Craft the Mining Headlamp and wear it like any helmet. When the sky can't light you, underground, under a roof or at night, the lamp shines as brightly as a torch from your head and follows you as you move, about 10 times a second. Step back into daylight and it switches itself off. It lights the air around you only: it never replaces water, plants or any other block, and it goes out underwater.

The lamp wears the helmet by 1 durability for every 10 seconds it shines, on top of the usual wear from hits. Unbreaking makes that last longer: 20 seconds per point at Unbreaking I, 30 at II and 40 at III. It never spends the last point: at 1 durability it goes out and tells you, and the helmet still protects you. Repair it at an anvil with an iron ingot. Take it off, die or leave and its light goes out at once; step through a portal and the light comes with you, leaving none behind. If the world closes while it is shining, the leftover light is cleared the next time that place is loaded.

Light level 14 at your head, like a torch, following you 10 times a second
1 armor point, 240 durability, repaired 60 per iron ingot at an anvil
1 durability per 10 seconds of light, only while it shines; 40 seconds with Unbreaking III
Switches on underground, under cover, at night, in the Nether and the End
Lights only empty air: never water, plants or other blocks

How to craft it

Mining Headlamp
Crafting table
- Iron ingot ×2
- Lantern ×1
- Leather ×2
3 wide and 2 tall, anywhere on the grid. Top row: Iron ingot, Lantern, Iron ingot. Bottom row: Leather, empty, Leather.

How to install Mining Headlamp

Import the .mcaddon, then turn on both packs in your world's settings (Behavior Packs and Resource Packs). No experiments are needed. Needs Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.45 or later.
At a crafting table, put iron ingot, lantern, iron ingot across the top row and a leather in each corner of the middle row, like a helmet.
Wear it: use it (right-click on Windows, tap on touch screens) or place it in your helmet slot.
Walk into a cave or stay out after dark: the space around you lights up and the light moves with you. Take the helmet off to put the lamp out.
When the message says the lamp is out of power, repair the helmet at an anvil with iron ingots.

What changed

0.1.018 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.