I have heard talk of removing the firefly entity and replacing it with a particle for performance reasons. This makes sense, but also makes me a bit sad because I used to hide firefly spawners under builds in creative for atmospheric effect, and I want to still be able to do this if I can.

My pitch: a block that functions similarly (kinda maybe sorta) to the feral flare lantern from torchmaster. When placed, it generates these firefly particles periodically within a set radius.

Texturing this would of course be up to yall (if you decide to implement something like this), but I have another idea with respect to this: make it have an adaptive texture. Give it a default texture of a stone block or something, but when shift-right-clicked (or using a keybind) with a block in hand, have it change to this block's texture.

I have no idea if that is even possible, but I'm having flashbacks to mods that added camouflaged blocks and things like buildcrafts facades.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

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