
Luminous Dust
Luminous Dust is a lightweight client-side mod that adds floating dust with interactive physics to your world. It is a fork of the Light Dust mod by…
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Luminous Dust
Luminous Dust is a lightweight client side mod that adds floating dust to your world. With interactive physics. Original mod by Swiss8191
What sense of this mod?
The original author did really good job, he ported his mod to new versions, so this port will be archived.
Basically, Luminous Dust is a fork of the original Light Dust, but with completely new assets, licensed under LGPL v2.1. Our goal was to strip away the overengineered parts and create a clean, performance-focused, and community-friendly base.
Configuration
Basic Settings: Can be configured directly via the in-game UI.
Advanced Settings & Colors: Can be customized in the luminousdust-client.toml config file.
Q&A
Q: Does this work with true dark mods?
A: Yes. It should work with them. However, you may need to change the opacity of the dust.
Q: Does this work with Shaders?
A: Yes. However, shaders often change how transparency renders. If the dust looks too invisible, increase ambientDustOpacity in the config (try 0.45 or higher).
Q: How do I disable the Block Break particles?
A: Set breakParticleCount to 0 in the config.
Q: Will mod have Dynamic Lights support?
A: Maybe, after some time.
Q: Why the mod is not up to date with the original mod?
A: I wanted to create a more lightweight and performance-focused version of the original, as the current state of that mod felt overengineered for my needs. And the old version was perfect
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as luminousdust-0.2.2-beta.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 46 KB
- Download link checked 9 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.