Distant Beacons

Distant Beacons

Now beacons can actually be used as markers across players worlds! Distant Beacons extends Minecraft’s beacon beam rendering beyond the normal client render distance. This mod looks best with LOD rendering mods such as Voxy and Distant Horizons.

| Voxy | Shaders | Beam | Beam Distance | Distant Horizons | Shaders | Beam | Beam Distance |
|——|———|——|————–|——————|———|——|————–|
| ON | ON | CUSTOM | 40k+ | ON, 4096 radius | ON | CUSTOM | 90k+ |
| OFF | OFF | VANILLA | 1Mil+ | OFF | OFF | VANILLA | 1Mil+ |
| ON | OFF | VANILLA | 1Mil+ | ON, 4096 radius | OFF | CUSTOM | 64k+ |
| OFF | ON | CUSTOM | 1.5Mil+ | OFF | ON | CUSTOM | 1Mil+ |

Tested on Minecraft 26.2 with voxy-0.2.19-beta, DistantHorizons-3.2.0-b-26.2-fabric-neoforge, iris-fabric-1.11.2+mc26.2, BSL_v10.1.3.zip shader.

Features

• 🔭 Extreme-distance beacon rendering Beacon beams remain visible over a million blocks away.

• 💾 Beacon tracking Known beacons are stored as persistent server data and restored across server/world restarts.

• 🎨 Accurate beam colors Beacon beam sections and colors are retained and reproduced.

• 🌐 Multiplayer support For the mod to work in multiplayer, both the server and the client must have the mod installed.

Shader support

Distant Beacons with BSL shader.

Distant Beacons should work with all shaders out of the box, beam settings might need adjusting to get the desired look. Depending on the shader used beam render distance can be lower, beams hard to see or have visual glitches or not work at all. Switch to a differrent shader if that happens.

Configuration

Distant Beacons provides an in-game configuration screen through Mod Menu.

Available settings:

Width Distance Divisor

Controls how quickly the beam increases in width as the viewing distance increases. Lower values cause the beam to become thicker at shorter distances.

Width Maximum Multiplier

Controls the maximum thickness multiplier applied to distant beacon beams. Higher values allow beams to become substantially wider at extreme distances.

Camera Cull Distance

Controls the maximum distance used by the camera culling adjustment for distant beacon rendering. Without the mod the camera culling sets the beacons beam render limit to 2048 blocks, while the mod increases it to 1,048,576 blocks.

Beam Height

Controls how far upward the remotely rendered beam extends. This can be configured to heights far beyond Minecraft’s normal world height, and is needed when beams are very distant.

Beam Depth

Controls how far downward the remotely rendered beam extends below the beacon. This is useful when viewing beacons from extreme distances where the terrain around the beacon is not loaded.