Simple Faulty Flashlights

A flashlight that works. Technically.

⚠️ Warning: flashing lights

This mod has flickering and flashing lights, and sudden bright flashes with loud zap sounds. This can be a problem for people with photosensitive epilepsy or who are sensitive to flashing lights. If that’s you, please be careful or skip this mod. If you feel dizzy or unwell while playing, stop right away.

Simple Faulty Flashlights adds flashlights and headlamps that actually light up your world, but they’re very faulty on purpose. They flicker all the time, turn themselves off at random, and every now and then they break with a loud electric zap and a shower of sparks. Then they fix themselves and keep going. They never fully die, they just make sure you never feel safe.

It’s made to go with horror mods, scary modpacks and dark caves. The more nervous it makes you, the better it’s working.

What they do

• Real light. The beam lights up where you look and the walls close to you, so it works with shaders and dynamic lights mods like Embeddium Dynamic Lights.
• Flickering. The light stutters, dims and buzzes all the time.
• Random outages. Sometimes it just switches itself off for a moment and comes back.
• Rare breakdowns. A loud zap, sparks everywhere, and the flashlight stops working for 10 seconds while the text on your screen counts down until it repairs itself.
• Custom sounds for switching on and off, flickering and zapping.

Don’t spam the switch!

Click the flashlight on and off too fast (9 times in 3 seconds) and it blows up in your hand. You take a little damage (2 hearts), you catch fire, and it’s broken for 10 seconds. It also loses a big chunk of its durability, so think twice before you play with it.

A normal random breakdown costs a little durability too, and a flashlight never gets destroyed by a breakdown on its own. It always stays with at least 1 durability left.

7 tiers

Every tier is the same flashlight in a different color. There are no extra perks, only how long it lasts. Each durability point is one second switched on.

Headlamps

Every tier also has a headlamp (Wooden, Stone, Copper, Iron, Gold, Diamond and Netherite) so your hands stay free.

• Craft it with plastic, 2 leather and the flashlight of the same tier.
• Keeps its wear. A flashlight with 10/300 durability left makes a headlamp with 10/300 left, so you can’t use it to get a fresh one.
• Wear it by sneaking and right-clicking, or put it in your helmet slot. It shows on your head.
• Toggle it with right-click, or press H while wearing it. You can change the key in Controls. The key only works for headlamps, not flashlights.
• It flickers, switches off, breaks and blows up exactly like a flashlight.

Crafting

Everything is made in survival with fairly easy materials, and every recipe shows up in JEI, REI and EMI.

• Plastic: coal or charcoal + sugar cane
• Weak glowstone dust, weak glowstone block and weak redstone lamp: darker versions of the real ones, only used for crafting. They give no light and no redstone power.
• Lens: any axe + any glass pane. The axe loses 1 durability.
• Bulb, battery (2 per craft), spring, switch and reflector: made from glass, redstone, copper, iron and a few other basics
• Body: 2 ingots (or logs/stone) of the tier in a column
• Flashlight: lens, reflector, bulb, switch, spring, battery and the body of your tier in the crafting grid

Good to know

• Flashlights and headlamps can’t be enchanted, so no Mending. Sorry.
• With Curios API installed, headlamps also fit the Curios head slot. Curios is optional and the mod works without it.
• Almost everything can be changed in the config file: how often it flickers, switches off and breaks, how long a break lasts, the light level, the beam range, and the spam and damage settings.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.20.1 with Forge
• Works with shaders and dynamic lights mods
• Curios API is optional

Don’t spam the flashlight, folks.

• AI help was used in this mod but I coded and edited most of the things myself!