Brighter Wisplight

The Wisplight pushes back the Mistlands fog, but it barely lights anything — you still walk in the dark with one hand occupied. This mod makes its light strong enough to actually see by.

Light only. It does not touch the fog, add items, change recipes, or change colors.

• Configurable brightness and range, with a conservative ceiling
• Optional shadows
• Client-side: not required on the server or on other players

This is a comfort mod, not an advantage. The limits are deliberately tight: it helps you see where you step, without turning into a floodlight.

Before / after

Same spot, same night, same Wisplight. Only the light changed.

Vanilla	With Brighter Wisplight

Note that the fog is untouched. The mist-clearing bubble around you is exactly the vanilla size — the mod never modifies it. What changes is how far you can see through the mist, because the light now reaches further.

Installation

Install through Thunderstore Mod Manager / r2modman, or copy BrighterWisplight.dll into BepInEx/plugins.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.pass-os.brighterwisplight.cfg, generated on first launch. You can edit it while the game is running (F1 with ConfigurationManager) — changes apply immediately, no restart needed.

Option	Default	What it does
Enabled	true	Master switch. Turning it off restores the original values
IntensityMultiplier	1.13	Brightness. 1 = vanilla. Max 1.5
RangeMultiplier	4.4	How far the light reaches. 1 = vanilla. Max 5
CastShadows	false	Cast shadows. Looks good, costs FPS
SkipCreatures	true	Skips wisps attached to creatures (Hugin, Munin, Mistwalker)
NameFilter	empty	Empty = affects the carried wisp and wisp torches. Fill in to narrow it down
VerboseLogging	false	Logs affected objects with before/after values

Why range goes up more than brightness

The wisp's light is a point light. Raising the intensity blows out the image long before it solves anything — you get a glare in the middle of the screen and everything else stays dark. Raising the range is what actually lets you see where you are stepping. That is why the defaults barely touch intensity and are generous with range.

If you want a torch feel instead (strong light, close in, with a fast falloff), go the other way: drop RangeMultiplier to around 1.5 and raise IntensityMultiplier.

Why you cannot change the color

Earlier versions tried. It does not work, and the reason is worth explaining.

The wisp orb glows through HDR emission, and bloom turns any emission with all three color channels above 1 into white. The original color escapes this by accident: the wisp's emission is (0, 3.614, 5.340) — the red channel is zero. It gets to be very bright and stay blue precisely because one channel is dark.

Any normal color has all three channels alive. To keep the same brightness they all have to be high — and then you get a white blob around the wisp. No amount of tuning fixes it: the problem is the effect, not the value. So the mod does not try.

I only want my carried wisp affected, not my torches

Turn on VerboseLogging, load into the game, and check BepInEx/LogOutput.log. It lists the name of every affected object. Copy the name into NameFilter — the equipped wisp is Demister, wisp torches are _enabled.

Compatibility

The mod uses the Demister component only to locate wisps — it never modifies it. It coexists cleanly with fog mods such as MistBeGone, which patches MistEmitter and ParticleMist, classes this mod never touches.

It does not touch networking, prefabs, or recipes.