Automating Flare Launches with Dispensers

Enabling Survival Flare Items

Beyond the regenerating keybind, you can use physical flares in standard survival play when survival mode features are enabled in the mod's settings. In this mode, flares exist as craftable survival items in your inventory rather than just an abstract cooldown counter.

Setting Up Dispenser Traps and Lighting

Flares can be loaded into vanilla redstone components for automated remote illumination:

1. Craft survival flares while survival mode options are active.

2. Place a vanilla Dispenser facing the cavern, hallway, or drop-off you want to illuminate.

3. Open the Dispenser interface and place your flares inside the inventory grid.

4. Connect a redstone signal—such as a stone button, lever, tripwire, or clock circuit—to trigger the Dispenser.

When powered, the Dispenser shoots the flare into the darkness, where it bounces across surfaces and lights up the area, making it ideal for checking mob spawners or lighting up defensive perimeters.