Cubic Sun and Moon Wiki

In vanilla Minecraft the sun and moon are simple flat squares painted onto the sky. Cubic Sun and Moon replaces them with chunky, three-dimensional cubes that match the game's blocky look.

The sun becomes a glowing cube during the day, and the moon becomes a cube that cycles through all eight lunar phases at night. Vanilla colours and lighting are kept, so sunrises, sunsets and moonlit nights still feel natural - only the shape of the sun and moon changes.

The pack only touches a small number of sky textures:

Everything else in the game keeps its default textures, which is what makes the pack so lightweight.

1. Download the pack .zip file.
2. Place the .zip into your .minecraft/resourcepacks folder (do not unzip it).
3. Launch Minecraft and open Options -> Resource Packs.
4. Move Cubic Sun and Moon from the left (available) list to the right (selected) list.
5. Click Done. Wait for the next day/night cycle and look up to see the cubic sun and moon.

The pack can be turned on or off at any time from the same screen.

Because it changes so little, Cubic Sun and Moon works alongside almost everything:

• Shaders - works with shader packs such as BSL and Complementary, as long as the shader does not draw its own sun and moon.
• Space mods - includes matching support for Ad Astra, Astrocraft, Galacticraft and Stellar View, so those mods' celestial bodies fit the cubic style too.
• Other resource packs - can be layered above other packs, since it only overrides the sun and moon.

It is textures only - no mods or loaders are required, and it makes no gameplay changes.

• Updated for Minecraft 26.2 using the new celestial sky texture layout, so the cubic sun and moon appear correctly on the latest version.
• The pack is very small and has no performance impact.
• If a shader replaces the sun and moon, disable that shader option to see the cubic versions.
• Safe to add to or remove from any world at any time.