I am building a very large underground airbase/bunker, and am having lighting troubles. Torches would look wildly out of place in a modern build, and even using glowstone doesn't seem to be having much of an effect, as the light diminishes a set distance from the block. Well, my hanger is 30 blocks tall. The roof is plenty lit, but the floor is not.

This is with a Night Vision potion active.This is without.

I'm running Worldedit (only way I can build something this big without taking a year) on 1.14.4, so any mods that work with that would be fine. I have used Little Tiles and Chisels and Bits on another world in 1.12.2 to fill walls with glowstone for lighting, but I keep getting a glitch on there that makes random sections of the tiles disappear until I place a block next to them. If someone has a solution for that, I would use Little Tiles. Does Little Tiles for 1.14.4 have the same glitch, by the way?

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This is due to the way lighting works in Minecraft. Any block emitting light that is not marked as a sky light has brightness at most 15 and falls off with each block of distance. Daylight / sky light is based on whether there is an unobstructed path of light to the sky (not including transparent blocks such as glass but including certain light-filtering blocks, see the wiki page for details). In vanilla there is no way around lighting huge caverns except for using daylight. With a modpack there may be "floodlights" that simulate the effect of daylight, or produce "beams" of full brightness light-emitting blocks.

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