Improved Beacons
Improves the functionality of beacons, adding more layers with additional effects, and ways to increase their range.
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Adds more layers to beacons, with more effects to choose from, and the possibility to increase its range by using rarer blocks.
Requires Fabric API and YACL (for versions 0.2.2 and above).
For servers, mod is required on both sides. If installed only server-side, a player can receive buffs from an already activated beacon, but will be kicked when trying to interact with the beacon. (TODO vanilla compatiblity)
Features
- Increased maximum layers to 6
- Unlocks Luck effect at layer 5
- Unlocks Health Boost effect at layer 6
- Increased range based on composition of pyramid (up to 16 chunks)
- Radius is (1 + 3 * power/100) * (layers * 8 + 16), where power is the average power of the pyramid (iron = 0, gold = 37, diamond/emerald = 50, netherite = 100)
- For example, a pyramid made entirely out of iron blocks will have power 0, a pyramid made out of 50% iron and 50% netherite will have power 50, and a pyramid made entirely out of netherite will have power 100.
Mod conflicts
This mod is probably incompatible with mods that also modify the Beacon.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.11
- 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 improved-beacons-0.2.4+1.21.11-fabric.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 79 KB
- Download link checked 1 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.