(Note: Needs Fabric API)
Candle Backport is a mod that seeks to do one thing and one thing only: faithfully backport the new candles from 1.17 to 1.16 versions of Fabric. The functionality is 1:1: you can stack up to four candles in one space, dye them whatever color you please, light them, extinguish them, put them on cakes, and everything else you can do in the snapshots as of typing this. The code and assets are a direct port from the snapshots (with few amendments to make them actually work in 1.16, of course).
I have no plans to port to Forge simply because there are already mods that do this very same thing.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2
- 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 candlebackport-1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 124 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.