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Many Shader Packs are extremely dark at the low end of the brightness spectrum, making caves and nighttime environments much harder to navigate, even on maximum brightness.
The gamma hack has been patched since 1.19, which leaves those using OptiFine with limited modding options to increase their in-game brightness beyond the (not-so-bright) maximum.
This Resource Pack adds a custom Overworld lightmap, which increases the brightness in areas that receive little-to-no sunlight, allowing for slightly brighter yet still immersive caves and nighttime environments.
This Resource Pack can be used with or without shaders enabled. No mods required (except OptiFine). See Images for a side-by-side comparison.
'Custom Colors' must be switched on in the Quality settings.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.11, 1.19.3, 1.20.2
- How to install: Download the .zip resource pack — do not unzip it. → Put it in .minecraft/resourcepacks. → Enable it in Options → Resource Packs.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java resource packs walks through it step by step.
Slightly Brighter Caves [OptiFine] is a free Minecraft Java resourcepack. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21.11, 1.19.3, 1.20.2, 1.21 and newer. Downloaded 21,639 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.