Dynamic Lights

Dynamic Lights allows hand-held and dropped light-emitting items such as torches to illuminate the blocks around them.

Location

• /assets/minecraft/optifine/dynamic_lights.properties

• /assets/<mod_id>/optifine/dynamic_lights.properties

A dropped torch item

Button and tooltip for the option, found in Video Settings ➔ Quality

An example of dynamic lighting, the held-item torch illuminates the blocks around the player, and the dropped glowstone item also does the same.

This configuration file allows mods to define dynamic light levels for entities and items.

Properties

Key	Values	Meaning
entities	Values: String, <entity:light level> Optional	Entity light levels The entity name is automatically expanded with the mod_id. The light level should be between 0 and 15. For example: entities=basalz:15 blitz:7
items	Values: String, <item:light level> Optional	Item light levels The item name is automatically expanded with the mod_id. The light level should be between 0 and 15. For example: items=florb:15 morb:7

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