🔥 Torch OffHand 🔥

Carry your light wherever you go.
Light up dark areas simply by carrying supported light sources, use them in your offhand, and keep exploring without constantly switching items.

✅ Achievements Friendly | ✅ No Experimental Features | ✅ No PLAYER.JSON

✅ Realms Compatible | ✅ Compatible with other Add-ons | ✅ Action & Stuff Compatible

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Torch OffHand Dynamic Lighting

🔥 What is Torch OffHand?

Torch OffHand brings portable lighting to Minecraft Bedrock, allowing supported light sources to illuminate the area around you while you carry them.

Keep a light source in your main hand or offhand while exploring caves, traveling at night, mining underground or moving through dark areas.

Instead of constantly switching between your tools and your light source, Torch OffHand lets you keep your surroundings illuminated while continuing your adventure.

⭐ Main Features

Dynamic lighting from supported light sources.
Independent Main Hand and Offhand lighting controls.
Per-player configuration for multiplayer worlds and Realms.
Use supported light sources in your offhand.
Place torches directly while they are in your offhand.
Choose which hand should have lighting priority.
Enable or disable individual light sources.
Use Low, Medium and High lighting distance presets.
Set a Custom Light Distance for individual light sources.
Customize the addon using the Torch Config Book.
Configure how supported light sources move to the offhand.
Show or completely hide lighting information from item lore.
Use Sea Pickles for underwater lighting.
Works without disabling achievements.
Does not require Experimental Features.
Does not use PLAYER.JSON.
Compatible with Realms and other Add-ons.

🆕 Latest Updates

Here you can check the latest additions, improvements and fixes made to Torch OffHand.

🔥 Update 3.9.6

⚙️ Configuration Improvements

Added per-player configuration. Each player can now use their own Torch OffHand settings without affecting other players.
Added separate controls for Main Hand Lighting and Offhand Lighting.
Added a new Light Priority setting:
- Prefer Offhand
- Prefer Main Hand
- Brightest Light
Added configurable offhand activation modes:
- Use
- Sneak + Use
- Disabled

💡 Light Source Settings

Players can now individually enable or disable supported light sources:
- Torch
- Soul Torch
- Redstone Torch
- Sea Pickle
- Copper Torch

Torch OffHand Light Source Settings

Improved the light distance configuration.
Added Custom Light Distance settings for individual light sources.
The existing Low, Medium and High lighting presets are still available.

Torch OffHand Light Distance Settings

📖 Item Lore Improvements

Added a new Show Lighting Lore option.
Lighting information can now be completely hidden from supported items.
The displayed lighting distance now updates when the player changes their light distance configuration.
Fixed old lighting values remaining in the item lore after changing settings.
Fixed duplicated Lighting: X Blocks lines being added to items.
Existing duplicated Torch OffHand lore is now automatically cleaned up.
Sea Pickles continue to display their underwater information when lore is enabled.

Torch OffHand Lighting Lore

🖐️ Offhand Improvements

Improved the system used to move supported light items to the offhand.
Light items now move to the offhand only when used while looking at the air, preventing conflicts with normal block placement.
Restored the reliable offhand transfer behavior used by the previous system while keeping the new configuration options.

⚡ Performance & Technical Improvements

Significantly optimized the main lighting loop.
Separated the dynamic lighting and item lore update systems.
Reduced unnecessary inventory scans.
Added cached player configuration and lighting states.
The system now only resets the active light when the light source, hand, priority or distance actually changes.
Improved handling when switching between Main Hand and Offhand light sources.
Fixed the previous configuration update order so new lighting distances are applied correctly.
Errors are no longer silently ignored and are now reported to the console for easier debugging.
Improved multiplayer handling and cleanup of cached player data when players leave.

🌎 Translation Improvements

Moved the new configuration interface texts to translation keys.
Lighting lore now supports the add-on's translation system.
New configuration options are ready to be translated through .lang files.

🔥 Update 3.9.4

🎨 Torch Config UI

A new item called Torch Config Book has been added.

It allows players to open a custom-textured interface and customize several torch-related settings.

Customize the light distance.
Enable or disable offhand torch placement with Sneak + Hit.
Choose whether lighting works only in Survival or in all game modes.
Enable or disable the sound played when holding a torch for the first time.

🔥 Place Torch Offhand

Torches can be placed while held in your offhand using Sneak + Hit.

This feature can be enabled or disabled from the Torch Config Book.

💡 Supported Light Sources

Torch OffHand supports multiple portable light sources, and each one can be individually enabled or disabled from your configuration.

🔥 Torch
🔵 Soul Torch
🔴 Redstone Torch
🌊 Sea Pickle
🟠 Copper Torch

This means you can choose exactly which light sources you want Torch OffHand to use without changing another player's settings.

✋ Use Light Sources in Your Offhand

Supported light sources can be moved to your offhand, allowing you to illuminate the area while keeping your main hand available.

To prevent conflicts with normal block placement, supported light items are moved to the offhand only when activated while looking at the air.

⚙️ Offhand Activation Modes

Each player can choose how the offhand mechanic should activate:

Use — Use the supported light item while looking at the air.
Sneak + Use — Sneak and use the supported light item while looking at the air.
Disabled — Disable the offhand activation mechanic.

Torch in Offhand

📕 Torch Config Book

The Torch Config Book gives you access to Torch OffHand's configuration system.

Settings are stored individually for each player, making the addon more convenient for multiplayer worlds and Realms.

One player can customize their lighting without changing the settings of anyone else.

🖐️ Main Hand & Offhand Lighting

🖐️ Main Hand Lighting
Enable or disable dynamic lighting from supported items held in your main hand.

🤚 Offhand Lighting
Enable or disable dynamic lighting from supported items held in your offhand.

✨ Light Priority

If supported light sources are being used in both hands, you can choose which one Torch OffHand should prioritize.

Prefer Offhand
Prefer Main Hand
Brightest Light

📏 Light Distance

Choose how far your portable lighting should reach using the available presets:

Low
Medium
High

You can also use Custom Light Distance to configure individual supported light sources.

Torch OffHand Custom Light Distance

🔥 Light Source Settings

Choose which supported light sources you want to use with Torch OffHand. Each source can be enabled or disabled individually.

Torch OffHand Light Source Configuration

🖐️ Offhand Activation

Choose between Use, Sneak + Use, or completely disable the offhand activation mechanic.

📖 Show Lighting Lore

Choose whether supported items should display their lighting information.

When enabled, the displayed lighting distance automatically updates to match your current light distance configuration.

When disabled, lighting information can be completely hidden from supported items.

Torch OffHand Item Lighting Lore

🧱 Place Torches From Your Offhand

You can place torches without having to move them back to your main hand.

🔥 Sneak + Hit the block where you want to place the torch.

You must have a torch in your offhand and the Place torches while sneaking option must be enabled in the Torch Config Book.

🌊 Underwater Lighting

Sea Pickles can also be used as portable underwater light sources.

Enable Sea Pickles from your light source settings and use them to illuminate underwater areas while exploring.

When lighting lore is enabled, Sea Pickles continue to display their underwater information.

Torch OffHand Sea Pickle Underwater Lighting

Sea Pickle Lighting Information

📖 Torch Config Book Recipe

You will receive the Torch Config Book when you first enter the world.

The book cannot be lost upon death. However, if you drop it or store it somewhere and can no longer find it, you can craft another one using the following recipe:

Torch Config Book Recipe

✅ Compatibility

🏆 Achievements Friendly

Torch OffHand does not disable achievements.

🧪 No Experimental Features

You do not need to enable experimental gameplay to use the addon.

👤 No PLAYER.JSON

Torch OffHand does not use PLAYER.JSON.

👥 Multiplayer & Realms

Torch OffHand supports multiplayer worlds and Realms.

Each player can use their own configuration without changing the settings of other players.

🧩 Other Add-ons

Torch OffHand is compatible with other Add-ons.

🎨 Action & Stuff

Torch OffHand is compatible with Action & Stuff.

Torch OffHand Action and Stuff Compatibility

📥 Installation Guide

Torch OffHand requires two files to work correctly:

1. Torch OffHand BP
Contains the addon's behavior.

2. Torch OffHand RP
Contains the addon's textures and resources.

⚠️ Both files are required for the addon to work properly.

🔥 Take Your Light With You!

Explore dark areas, travel at night and keep your main hand available while Torch OffHand lights the way.

Customize your lighting, choose your light sources and play the way you want.

📥 Download Torch OffHand and start exploring!

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