Changelog

1.1.0

A large correctness pass over Dynamic Lighting, a rebuilt settings screen, and a much smaller download. Your existing settings carry over automatically — nothing to reconfigure.

Added

• Torch Influence — placed light now dims the brightness boost instead of being ignored, so a lit-up base no longer gets full fullbright. Adjustable from ignore torches entirely (0%) to a single torch switches the boost off (100%), defaulting to 50%.
• Settings hotkey — press K in-game to open the settings screen directly. Mod Menu is no longer needed to reach it.
• Update notifications — a quiet chat message shortly after you join a world when a newer version is available, with a clickable link. Runs in the background, shows nothing if anything goes wrong, and sends no information about you, your world, or your server. Turn it off with Check for Updates.
• Cloth Config support — if Cloth Config happens to be installed, a richer tabbed settings screen with per-setting reset arrows is used automatically. It is not required; without it the built-in screen is used.
• Four settings that had no UI are now adjustable: Bright Level, Full Boost Below Light, No Boost Above Light, and the thresholds that replaced the old cave/night knobs.

Changed

• Dynamic Lighting now measures the light actually reaching you. Previously it asked "is there sky above me?" and "is it night?" as two separate tests. It now takes a single reading combining torch light with sky light adjusted for the time of day. A cave is still dark because it has no sky access at any hour — but a torch-lit cave is correctly treated as lit.
• Sunset is now a smooth ramp rather than eleven visible steps.
• The settings screen has been rebuilt on Minecraft's own options framework. It scrolls, so it can no longer overflow the screen, and it supports tooltips, controller navigation, and the narrator.
• The download is about 77% smaller — 281 KB down to 65 KB — mostly by shipping the icon at a sensible resolution instead of 512×512.
• The config file is now gammaplus.json (previously lumencraft.json). An existing file is renamed automatically on first launch, so your settings survive the upgrade.

Fixed

• Keybinds and their category showed raw text such as key.lumencraft.toggle_gamma in Options → Controls instead of readable names.
• Night vision obtained from a potion, a beacon, or /effect could be deleted by the mod, or have its brightness driven from the mod's own slider. The mod now only ever touches the effect it applied itself.
• A real night vision potion at full strength was dimmed down to the mod's configured intensity.
• The night vision brightness could be pushed far past its valid range when Dynamic Lighting was also enabled, badly overexposing the screen.
• Save and Cancel on the settings screen were cut off or entirely off-screen at GUI scale 3 and 4 — meaning the screen could only be exited with Escape, discarding changes.
• The lightmap was rebuilt and re-uploaded every frame even with every feature switched off, so the mod cost performance simply by being installed.
• A torch-lit underground area received the maximum brightness boost, as if it were pitch dark.
• Standing next to a wall could register as being in a cave, because light stored inside solid blocks counted toward the average.
• Night detection reached full strength moments after sunset and stayed pinned until sunrise, so dusk was effectively a step change and midnight was indistinguishable from twilight.
• Transition Speed displayed its value in non-Latin digits on systems with a matching language setting.
• Toggling a feature with a hotkey wrote the config file on the render thread, which could cost a frame.

Internal

• Added a unit test suite (46 tests) covering the transition smoother, the darkness model, and the config migration.
• Iris shader detection is now cached in one place and shared, instead of being re-checked by each caller.

Requirements

Minecraft 26.2 · Fabric Loader 0.19.0+ · Fabric API · Java 25 Cloth Config and Mod Menu are optional.