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System Dynamic Light

Name: System Dynamic Light
Author: SystemTv590

Have you ever wanted to light up caves just by having torches in your hands? With this addon you can illuminate either with flashlights,...

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🔥 System Dynamic Lights V3.3.3

💡 Portable Dynamic Lighting for Minecraft Bedrock

✅ Realms • Multiplayer • Action & Stuff • Addon Friendly

🏆 Achievements Friendly • 🚫 No Experimental Toggles • 🚫 No player.json

🌐 Official STV Addons Page • 🚀 Discord Server

🔥 Carry Light Anywhere in Minecraft Bedrock

System Dynamic Lights adds portable dynamic lighting to Minecraft Bedrock without requiring you to constantly place light blocks.

Hold supported items in your main hand or offhand, wear compatible lantern helmets, drop light-emitting items on the ground, or let supported entities and projectiles illuminate the world around them.

⭐ Main Features

🔥 Dynamic light while moving
✋ Main-hand lighting
🤚 Offhand lighting
🪖 Lantern helmet lighting
🧱 Place supported lights from the offhand
💨 Dropped Item Lighting
🔥 Burning Entity Lighting
✨ Natural Glowing Mob Lighting
🏹 Glowing Projectile Lighting
💥 Primed TNT Lighting
💎 End Crystal Lighting
✨ XP Orb Lighting
🧩 Custom Entity Lights
🎒 Custom Light Items from other Add-ons
🎛️ Individual Entity Light Controls
💡 Configurable Entity Brightness
🌊 Underwater Lighting
⚙️ In-game Configuration Book
👤 Per-player settings
🌍 Operator-controlled World Settings
🚀 Performance Presets
📏 Configurable Dynamic Light Range
🎯 Light Source Priority
📜 Optional Item Information / Lore
🌐 29 language variants
👥 Realms & Multiplayer support
🎨 Action & Stuff compatible
🚫 No player.json
🧪 No experimental gameplay required
🏆 Achievements Friendly

🆕 Latest Update - V3.3.3

🎛️ Entity Control & Stability Update

V3.3.3 gives world owners much more control over Entity Lighting.

Instead of choosing one general Entity Lighting mode, you can now decide exactly which types of entities are allowed to create dynamic light.

You can also customize the brightness of several special entity lights.

⭐ What's New?

🎛️ Added a dedicated Entity Lighting control menu
✨ Enable or disable Natural Glowing Mobs
🔥 Enable or disable Burning Entities
🏹 Enable or disable Glowing Projectiles
✨ Enable or disable XP Orb lighting
💥 Enable or disable TNT & End Crystal lighting
🧩 Enable or disable Custom Entity Lights
🔥 Configure Fireball Light Level - 1 to 15
✨ Configure XP Orb Light Level - 1 to 15
💥 Configure TNT Light Level - 1 to 15
💎 Configure End Crystal Light Level - 1 to 15
🚀 Updated Performance Presets for the new Entity Lighting controls
🧹 Improved cleanup of entity dynamic lights
🛡️ Improved handling of entities that disappear or stop being tracked
💡 Reduced the chance of leftover dynamic light blocks
🔄 Entity lighting settings now refresh immediately after changes

📖 Full V3.3.3 Details

🎛️ New Entity Lighting Menu

V3.3.3 introduces a dedicated Entity Lighting section inside World Settings.

This menu gives operators a quick overview of:

Which entity light categories are enabled
Current TNT brightness
Current XP Orb brightness
Current Fireball brightness
Current End Crystal brightness
How many Custom Entity Lights are registered

From there you can open:

Entity Light Categories
Entity Brightness Levels
Custom Entity Lights

✨ Individual Entity Light Categories

Entity Lighting is now much more customizable.

Each category can be enabled or disabled independently:

✨ Natural Glowing Mobs
🔥 Burning Entities
🏹 Glowing Projectiles
✨ XP Orbs
💥 TNT & End Crystal
🧩 Custom Entity Lights

There is still a global Entity Lighting master switch.

If the master switch is disabled, all entity-based dynamic lighting is disabled regardless of the individual category settings.

💡 Configurable Entity Brightness

You can now customize the Light Level used by several special entity sources.

Available range:

Light Level 1-15

Adjustable sources:

🔥 Fireballs
✨ XP Orbs
💥 Primed TNT
💎 End Crystals

Default values:

Fireballs - Level 15
XP Orbs - Level 4
TNT - Level 10
End Crystal - Level 15

This allows you to make these effects more subtle or much brighter depending on your world and personal preference.

🔥 Burning Entities

Burning Entity Lighting now has its own independent setting.

When enabled, entities and players that are currently on fire can produce dynamic light.

You can disable this feature without disabling natural mobs, projectiles or Custom Entity Lights.

🏹 Glowing Projectiles

Projectile Lighting can now be controlled separately.

This category includes:

Fireballs
Small Fireballs
Dragon Fireballs
Burning Arrows

Fireball brightness can be configured from Light Level 1 to 15.

💥 Explosive Lighting

Primed TNT and End Crystals now have their own category.

Both can be disabled without affecting other entity lights.

The brightness of TNT and End Crystals can also be configured independently.

✨ XP Orb Lighting

XP Orb lighting can now be disabled separately.

Its brightness can also be adjusted between Light Level 1 and 15.

The Performance preset disables XP Orb lighting by default to reduce unnecessary entity-light processing in busy worlds.

🧩 Custom Entity Lights

The Custom Entity Light system introduced in V3.3.2 is still fully supported.

V3.3.3 adds a separate master control specifically for registered Custom Entity Lights.

This means operators can keep custom mobs registered without needing to delete them when they temporarily want to disable their dynamic lighting.

🧹 Entity Light Stability Improvements

V3.3.3 improves how moving and disappearing entity lights are tracked and cleaned.

If an entity stops being detected for a short period, its previous dynamic light position can now be cleaned automatically.

This provides an additional safety system for situations where an entity disappears, becomes invalid, moves outside the processing range or can no longer be tracked normally.

Combined with the projectile cleanup improvements from V3.3.2, this further reduces the chance of temporary dynamic light blocks being left behind.

👹 Entity Lighting

Entities and special projectiles can create dynamic light around them.

In V3.3.3, Entity Lighting now uses:

Master Switch + Individual Categories

🎛️ Entity Lighting

The main Entity Lighting option enables or disables the entire entity-light system.

When enabled, you can decide separately which categories should produce light.

Available Categories

✨ Natural Glowing Mobs
🔥 Burning Entities
🏹 Glowing Projectiles
✨ XP Orbs
💥 TNT & End Crystal
🧩 Custom Entity Lights

This means you can create combinations such as:

Keep natural mobs but disable XP Orbs
Keep fireballs but disable burning entities
Disable TNT lighting but keep Ender-world mobs and custom entities
Use only Custom Entity Lights from another Add-on
Disable every entity s

🔥 Fireball Brightness

Fireballs can use any:

Light Level from 1 to 15

Default:

Level 15

Burning Arrows continue using their own appropriate dynamic light level.

💥 TNT & End Crystal Lighting

Primed TNT and End Crystals can produce dynamic light.

Both are controlled by the same category switch, but their brightness values can be configured separately.

💥 TNT

Default:

Light Level 10

Available:

1-15

💎 End Crystal

Default:

Light Level 15

Available:

1-15

✨ XP Orb Lighting

Experience Orbs can produce a smaller dynamic light around themselves.

Default:

Light Level 4

You can customize it anywhere from:

Level 1-15

XP Orb lighting can also be disabled completely without affecting any other entity light source.

🧩 Custom Entity Lights

Make Mobs From Other Add-ons Glow

Custom Entity Lights allow operators to register mobs from other Add-ons as dynamic light sources.

You do not need to edit the other Add-on.

How It Works

Move close to a custom mob
Open Custom Entity Lights
Choose Add Nearby Custom Entity
Select the entity
Choose its Light Level from 1 to 15

You can register up to:

24 Custom Entity Lights

This is useful for Add-ons that include:

🔥 Elemental mobs
✨ Magic creatures
💎 Crystal entities
🤖 Machines or robots
👹 Custom bosses
🌟 Glowing creatures

Registered Custom Entity Lights can now also be temporarily disabled through the new Entity Lighting menu without deleting their configuration.

🎯 Brightest Entity Priority

When multiple dynamic entity lights overlap, System Dynamic Lights prioritizes the stronger source.

For example:

A weak XP Orb should not replace the light created by a nearby Fireball or End Crystal.

Entity light sources are processed by brightness so the strongest valid light remains visible in overlapping areas.

🧹 Moving Entity & Projectile Cleanup

Moving light sources are continuously tracked.

When a projectile or other entity moves to another block, its previous dynamic light position is cleaned before the new light is created.

This prevents moving sources such as:

🏹 Burning Arrows
🔥 Fireballs
✨ XP Orbs
💥 Primed TNT
👹 Custom entities

from leaving unwanted light behind.

V3.3.3 also adds an additional cleanup system for entity lights that are no longer being tracked.

👤 Personal Settings

Personal Settings affect only the player who changes them.

This is especially useful in multiplayer because each player can choose their own lighting preferences.

Personal settings include:

My Dynamic Light
Main Hand Light
Offhand Light
Helmet Light
Preferred Light Source
Offhand Activation Method
Offhand Torch Placement
Offhand Place Light Blocks
Item Information
Reset My Settings

One player can use every lighting feature while another uses a cleaner or more performance-focused setup.

✋ Main Hand & Offhand Lighting

Main-hand and offhand lighting can be controlled independently.

For example:

Keep Main Hand Light enabled
Disable Offhand Light
Use only Offhand Light
Disable your own Dynamic Light completely

Other players can still use their own personal settings.

🤚 Quick Offhand System

Supported light items can automatically be moved into your empty offhand.

Hold a supported light source in your main hand and look toward empty air.

Then use the item:

🖱️ PC: Right-click
📱 Mobile: Press and hold
🎮 Console: Normal interact/use button

Your offhand must be empty.

Looking at empty air helps prevent accidentally placing the block.

🧱 Place Lights From the Offhand

Some supported light blocks can be placed directly from the offhand.

When enabled, use:

Sneak + Hit

Available modes:

Torches Only
Torches and Lanterns
All Placeable Lights

Not every light-emitting item has a placeable block version.

🎯 Player Light Source Priority

What happens if you have multiple player light sources equipped?

System Dynamic Lights lets you choose which one should take priority.

Available Modes

✨ Brightest Available
🔄 Original Priority
🪖 Prefer Helmet
🤚 Prefer Offhand
✋ Prefer Main Hand

✨ Brightest Available

Automatically uses the source with the highest Light Level.

🔄 Original Priority

Uses:

Helmet → Offhand → Main Hand

Preferred Source Modes

Uses your selected source first.

If it is unavailable, the addon can fall back to the brightest remaining source.

🌍 World Settings

World Settings affect the entire world.

Only the host or operators can modify them.

Available systems include:

Enable Dynamic Light
Dropped Item Lights
Maximum Dropped Item Lights
Entity Lighting
Entity Light Categories
Entity Brightness Levels
Dimension Settings
Dynamic Light Range
Performance Presets
Custom Light Sources
Custom Entity Lights
Reset World Settings

Normal players can still use their own Personal Settings without changing global options.

🎛️ Entity Lighting Control

V3.3.3 adds a dedicated menu specifically for entity lighting.

Operators can see a quick summary of:

Natural Glowing Mobs - ON/OFF
Burning Entities - ON/OFF
Glowing Projectiles - ON/OFF
XP Orbs - ON/OFF
TNT & End Crystal - ON/OFF
Custom Entity Lights - ON/OFF
TNT Light Level
XP Orb Light Level
Fireball Light Level
End Crystal Light Level
Number of registered custom entities

This makes it much easier to change entity lighting without searching through unrelated World Settings.

📏 Dynamic Light Range

Dynamic Light Range controls how far from players the addon processes:

Dropped Item Lights
Entity Lights

Available options:

⚡ Short - 24 blocks
⚖️ Medium - 48 blocks
✨ High - 64 blocks
🌟 Very High - 96 blocks

Lower values are better for performance.

Higher values allow more distant entities and dropped objects to continue producing light.

🚀 Performance Presets

Don't want to manually configure every performance option?

Choose one of the built-in presets.

⚡ Performance

Recommended for:

Realms
Mobile devices
Lower-end hardware
Busy worlds

Uses:

24-block Dynamic Light Range
Dropped Item Lights enabled
Maximum 10 dropped lights
Natural Glowing Mobs enabled
Burning Entities enabled
Glowing Projectiles enabled
TNT & End Crystal enabled
Custom Entity Lights enabled
XP Orb Lighting disabled

XP Orbs are disabled in this preset because worlds can contain many of them at once.

⚖️ Balanced

Recommended for most players.

Uses:

**48-

💡 Light Level 1-15
✋ Main Hand enabled/disabled
🤚 Offhand enabled/disabled
💨 Dropped Item Light enabled/disabled

This means a custom crystal could work only while held, while another item could illuminate the area when dropped.

You can register up to:

24 Custom Item Light Sources

💡 Supported Vanilla Light Items

System Dynamic Lights supports many vanilla light-emitting items.

🔎 Show Supported Item Examples

Torch
Soul Torch
Redstone Torch
Lantern
Soul Lantern
Campfire
Soul Campfire
Candle
Glowstone
Shroomlight
Sea Lantern
Sea Pickle
Lava Bucket
Beacon
Conduit
Brewing Stand
Redstone Dust
Redstone Repeater
Redstone Comparator
Totem of Undying
Nether Star
Glowstone Dust
Blaze Rod
Blaze Powder
Glow Ink Sac
Fire Charge
And more supported light items

The addon uses controlled item identifiers to avoid unrelated items being detected by mistake.

💨 Dropped Item Lighting

Supported light items can illuminate the area after being dropped.

For example, dropping a Torch or Lava Bucket can create light where it lands.

Maximum processed dropped lights can be configured as:

10 Lights
25 Lights
50 Lights
Unlimited

Lower limits are recommended for Realms and lower-end devices.

🌊 Underwater Lighting

Some supported light items can also illuminate underwater.

For example, the Sea Pickle supports underwater dynamic lighting.

📜 Item Information

Supported light items can display optional information directly in their lore.

Information can include:

System Dynamic Lights marker
Light Level
Underwater support
Offhand support
Placement support

Available modes:

🚫 Disabled
💡 Light Level Only
📖 Full Information

The addon also includes lore cleanup to prevent System Dynamic Lights information from being duplicated repeatedly.

⚙️ Configuration Book

System Dynamic Lights includes the:

System Dynamic Light Config

The menu provides access to:

👤 Personal Settings
🌍 World Settings
🎛️ Entity Lighting
🚀 Performance Presets
🎒 Custom Light Sources
👹 Custom Entity Lights
📖 Information

The Information section explains the different settings directly inside Minecraft.

🪖 Extra Content Pack

The optional System Dynamic Extra pack adds extra custom content such as Lantern Helmets.

This keeps the main Dynamic Light system cleaner for players who only want vanilla-style item lighting.

Lantern Helmets can produce:

💡 Light Level 15

when Helmet Light is enabled.

They can be repaired and enchanted like regular helmets.

Available Lantern Helmet tiers include:

Copper
Iron
Chainmail
Gold
Diamond
Netherite

🌐 Languages

System Dynamic Lights includes 29 language variants, including:

English
Spanish
Portuguese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Chinese
Russian
Ukrainian
Turkish
Polish
Dutch
And many more

🧩 Add-on Compatibility

🚫 No `player.json`

System Dynamic Lights does not use player.json.

This helps reduce conflicts with Add-ons that modify player animations, textures or behavior.

🎨 Action & Stuff

System Dynamic Lights is designed to work alongside Action & Stuff.

🎒 Custom Add-on Items

Use Custom Light Sources to give dynamic lighting to compatible items from other Add-ons.

👹 Custom Add-on Mobs

Use Custom Entity Lights to give dynamic lighting to mobs from other Add-ons.

👥 Realms & Multiplayer

Personal Settings are saved independently for each player.

World Settings are controlled by the host or operators.

🧪 No Experimental Gameplay

No experimental gameplay toggles are required.

🏆 Achievements

System Dynamic Lights includes Add-on product metadata and is designed to work without disabling achievements.

📦 Installation

System Dynamic Lights uses two required packs:

📘 System Dynamic Light BP/BH - behavior, scripts and mechanics
🎨 System Dynamic Light RP/RS - textures, models, names and translations

✅ Both packs are required.

If you also want the optional Lantern Helmets and extra content, install:

🪖 System Dynamic Extra

as well.

📜 Previous Updates

🕘 Show Previous Updates

V3.3.2 - Entity & Projectile Lighting Update

V3.3.2 greatly expanded the entity lighting system.

Added Custom Entity Lights.
Added Light Levels 1-15 for custom entities.
Added nearby custom entity selection.
Added support for up to 24 Custom Entity Lights.
Added Fireball lighting.
Added Small Fireball lighting.
Added Dragon Fireball lighting.
Added Burning Arrow lighting.
Added Primed TNT lighting.
Added End Crystal lighting.
Added XP Orb lighting.
Improved brightness priority between entity sources.
Fixed projectiles leaving permanent light trails behind.
Improved entity and projectile light cleanup.

V3.3.1 - Configuration & Custom Item Update

V3.3.1 focused on making System Dynamic Lights easier to configure and more compatible with other Add-ons.

Added independent Main Hand Light settings.
Added Dynamic Light Range.
Added custom light items directly from the inventory.
Added Light Levels 1-15 for custom items.
Added independent Main Hand, Offhand and Dropped Item support for custom lights.
Improved Custom Light Source editing.
Added personal and world reset options.
Expanded Performance Presets.
Improved UI readability and status colors.
Improved item lore cleanup.

V3.2.9

Fixed an issue that could cause System Dynamic Lights lore to be duplicated on supported light-emitting items.

V3.2.8

Expanded translation support for light-item descriptions, new content and Configuration Book information.

V3.2.7

Large stability, performance, light-priority, catalog and lore rework.

Improved inventory lore handling and stack merging.
Improved player-light priority over dropped items and entities.
Reduced unnecessary dropped-item and entity processing.
Reworked the supported light-item catalog.
Changed visible lore wording to Light Level.
Removed global gamerule changes that could interfere with other Add-ons.

V3.2.6

Expanded the System Dynamic Light Configuration Book with detailed settings and information pages.

V3.2.5

Added Redstone Dust, Redstone Repeater and Redstone Comparator to supported light items and fixed lighting behavior inside caves.

V3.2.4

Improved offhand placement with the Sneak + Hit mechanic.

V3.2.2

Added additional supported light sources such as Conduit and Brewing Stand, fixed stair-lighting behavior and improved candle support.

V3.2

Introduced the Copper Lantern Helmet and expanded optional helmet-based lighting.

❤️ Why System Dynamic Lights?

Carry a Torch in your hand.

Throw a light item on the ground.

Walk beside a burning mob.

Watch a Fireball illuminate the area while it flies.

Make a creature from another Add-on glow.

And now choose exactly which entity lights you want and how bright they should be.

All without constantly placing and removing light blocks manually.

🔥 Bring Dynamic Lighting to Your Minecraft Bedrock World.

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