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Colorful Flares
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.20. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
Did I hear flares? Colorful Flares is a mod made to help you quickly illuminate areas, light your surrounding or use them to tell your friends about your…
I don't know my version or loader
Open the Minecraft launcher and look at the profile you play on — it names both, like fabric-loader-1.21.4. The version also shows in the bottom-right corner of the game's main menu.
No loader in the profile name? Then it's plain Minecraft, and these mods won't run — you need Fabric or NeoForge installed first.
Colorful Flares
Colorful Flares is a mod created with the objective of helping players to illuminate large areas temporarily for exploring, specially caves. Comes with the bonus of being also useful to tell your friends your position thanks to the colored smoke these flares emit.
Features
- Throwable flares
- 13 different colors
- Sets entities on fire when hitting them at high enough speeds
- 2 minutes despawn timer
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.1
- 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 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 mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
File checked by MCModsHub
- Ships as colorful_flares-1.2.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 101 KB
- Download link checked 18 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.