New Favorite lighting block: glowballs

2/24/2024

I saw an old video from Mischief of Mice, showing all the features of Tinkers Construct, since I'm always curious if there are things I missed while I was playing.  Sure enough, a minor feature in 1.12.2 TC was the glowball, a nearly invisible light source.  I found that it was available in 1.10.2 as well (in my Overgrowth pack).  You surround a glowstone dust with 8 snowballs to get 8 glowballs.  And the genius little things can be placed or thrown.  They are almost entirely transparent and about 1/8 of a block thick.  You can easily break them to remove them.  I went and replaced all torches (and paper lanterns) in Lakeside with these little things, and the whole area just looks cleaner.  There are no torches anywhere, no white blocks in the ground (paper lanterns), no mismatched green carpet trying to cover up lights.  Just mince clean lighting across the whole town.

The TC version in my VeeTech 1.5.2 world, does NOT have glowballs implemented yet.