Revamp the item-dropping experience!

Droplight adds new features to the game that make drops feel more exciting.

Features

Item Drop Sounds

Items will now make sound when they hit the ground! Droplight includes over 20 custom sound effects, and while the default sounds work quite well, everything is completely customizable.
Check out some of the built-in sounds here (Make sure to unmute the video)

Drop Tossing

When killing a mob, items will fly up into the air one at a time, whirling about. This emphasizes the drops, and makes multiple drops really feel special.

Item Visuals

Rare items have special visuals when on the ground, including a glowing beam of light and sparkles. By default, the color of these visuals matches the item's tooltip name color. Everything about the visuals is also completely customizable, including which items have beams and/or sparkles, and what color particular items should have. By default the beams are smooth, but there is also a pixelated mode available for a blockier look. Are there some really hard to get items in your modpack? Make them have special visuals to really stand out!

Beam height 12.0, pixelated mode

Beam height 3.0 with custom beam colors, smooth mode

Beam height 0.0 with some custom and some default beam colors

Dependencies

Droplight depends on Iceberg

and Prism.

The Fabric version also requires Forge Config API Port.

Client / Server

If playing multiplayer, you will need the mod installed on both the client-side and the server-side for all features to be supported. This also goes for single-player games opened up for LAN play--all players will need the mod installed for it to behave properly. You may install the mod on your client without it being installed on a server in multiplayer, but only some features will work properly. See the list below. The mod dependencies need to also be installed anywhere the mod is installed.

Features supported in multiplayer without mod on server:

Forge

Item beams
Item flipping

Fabric

Item beams
Item flipping
Particles
Drop sounds

Configuration

Everything about the mod is completely customizable via the included configuration file. This file is called droplight-common.toml, and can be found in the config folder. If you would like to customize any behavior of the mod, please examine the config file to see what options are available.

Some options take a list of items, such as what drop sounds to use and which items have custom beam colors. All options taking item lists use Iceberg item selectors, which are documented here.

Some options also take colors, which use Prism color definitions documented here.

Sounds

Droplight includes several custom sound events that can be used for item drop sound customization, and they are listed below. Most of the sound events below include multiple distinct sound effects that will play randomly when used. In addition to these, any standard Minecraft sound or sounds added via mods / resource packs can be specified as an item drop sound in the configuration file.

Included sound events

droplight:item.misc.drop_legendary

droplight:item.misc.drop_light

droplight:item.misc.drop_medium_soft

droplight:item.misc.drop_medium_hard

droplight:item.misc.drop_heavy

droplight:item.misc.drop_tool

droplight:item.misc.drop_block

droplight:item.misc.drop_wood

droplight:item.misc.drop_gem

droplight:item.misc.drop_glass

droplight:item.misc.drop_wet

droplight:item.misc.drop_misc1

droplight:item.misc.drop_misc2

droplight:item.misc.drop_misc3

Known Issues

Droplight uses custom shaders when playing on medium and high graphics settings to draw light beams and sparkles in order to have the most beautiful graphics possible. Unfortunately, popular shader pack mods like Iris do not support custom shaders from mods and will disable them. To ensure compatibility, Droplight automatically drops down to lowest graphical quality when using shader packs, and even then, which shader pack you use will determine how the beams/sparkles look. BSL is known to have best compatibility, and Complementary is decent, others are hit or miss.