Greg's Lighting

Greg's Lighting is a mod for the game Minecraft. It currently provides one item, the Floodlight. This is a high-powered lamp designed for lighting up large spaces. It projects a beam of light that extends vertically downwards for an unlimited distance without diminishing in brightness. You can place them on the ceiling of a high room and they will light up the floor as bright as day.

Floodlights require a redstone signal to turn them on.

The torch at the top doesn't do much for the light level at the bottom...
 ...but turn on a floodlight, and the floor is bathed in splendiforous brightness!

Crafting

Product Ingredients Recipe Notes
Floodlight
 4 iron ingots
3 glass blocks
1 redstone dust
1 glowstone dust

Prerequisites

Greg's Prospecting is a Forge-based mod, so if you haven't done so already, you will need to install Forge. See the Download section below for recommended versions. The contents of the downloaded zip files for these needs to be copied into your minecraft.jar file. If the Forge verssion you're using requires ModLoader, it should be installed first.

Download

Greg's Lighting has been tested with the following versions of Minecraft and Forge. It may or may not work with other versions.

Minecraft Version Greg's Lighting ModLoader Version
 Forge Version
1.2.5
 GregsLighting-1.1-mc1.2.5.zip
 1.2.5 3.0.1
N/A
 3.3.7

Installation

First unpack the zip file; it contains a client jar, a server jar and documentation.

Client

Copy GregsLighting-Client.jar into your mods folder.

Server

Copy GregsLighting-Server.jar into the server's mods folder.

Source

For mod developers -- you don't need this just to use the mod.
GregsLighting-1.1-mc1.2.5-Source.zip

Licence

This is free software. You are free to do whatever you want with it.

Limitations

Floodlights require a column of mostly empty space under them in order to function properly. The beam will pass through transparent blocks, but the light level in the vicinity of such block will be reduced slightly. Also, if you fill up the entire column below a floodlight with transparent blocks, it won't produce any light.

Placing and then removing certain configurations of transparent blocks may result in the lighting not being updated properly. This can be fixed by turning the floodlight off and on again.

Contacting the Author

You are welcome to email comments, suggestions and bug reports to me at:
greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz

Change History

1.1
Improved behaviour when transparent blocks are placed in the beam path. In particular, placing a glass block directly below a floodlight no longer prevents it from producing any light.
1.0
Initial version.