Loot Beams Reforged

Renders highly configurable colored beams on dropped items!

An updated, multi-platform port of Loot Beams Up, bringing colorful and customizable loot beams to modern Minecraft versions so the mod doesn't stay stuck in 1.21.1.

📖 Description

Loot Beams Reforged is a client-side mod that adds a beam of light to every dropped item, making your loot impossible to miss. Each beam is fully customizable: its color can follow the item's name or rarity, and you can fine-tune nearly every aspect of the beam, the nametag, the particles, and the ground glow.

Because it's client-side only, it works on vanilla servers and on any server that doesn't have the mod installed — just drop it into your mods folder and your loot will light up.

This project is a faithful continuation of Loot Beams Up (itself a Fabric port of the original Loot Beams for Forge), modernized and ported to newer Minecraft versions and additional mod loaders.

🌟 Features

• Beams on every item : all dropped items get a colored beam by default.
• Smart colors : beams automatically pick a color based on the item's name, rarity, or custom NBT overrides (lootbeams.color: "0xFFFFFF").
• Two render modes : the classic vertical Beam, or Droplight (inspired by the Droplights mod).
• Nametags & tooltips : see an item's name by looking at it, crouching, on item frames, or in third-person view.
• Ground glow effects : customizable ground glows with custom textures and animated sprites (.mcmeta).
• Particles & trails : fully configurable particle trails with custom, animated particle textures.
• Custom rarities : define rarities with their own colors and effects via minecraft:custom_data, selectors, and translatable strings.
• Animated & gradient beams : animated beams plus gradient colors for both beams and ground glows.
• Shader support : works with Iris in both Loot beam and Droplight modes.
• Preset manager : save, load, and share your setups (Numpad 5 by default).
• Legendary Tooltips support : beams and tooltips integrate with Legendary Tooltips.
• Whitelist / blacklist : control exactly which items get beams.
• In-game config : configure everything through Mod Menu / Cloth Config.
• Zero server-side requirements : runs on vanilla servers.

⚙️ Compatibility

• Minecraft Versions : 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.1.x, 26.2 and 26.3.
• Modding Platforms :
  • Fabric : ✅ Fully supported!
  • NeoForge : ✅ Fully supported!
• Environment : Client-side only.
• Mod Compatibility :
  • Iceberg — library compatibility
  • Iris — shaders support
  • Legendary Tooltips — rarity / tooltip integration
  • Mod Menu — in-game config screen
  • Prism — animated gradient colors
  • Cloth Config — configuration backend

📦 Installation

1. Download the mod : grab the latest version from Modrinth.
2. Install the loader : make sure you have Fabric Loader or NeoForge installed for your Minecraft version.
3. Add the mod : place the .jar file into your mods folder.
4. Launch the game : start Minecraft and watch your loot light up!
5. (Optional) install Mod Menu + Cloth Config for the in-game settings screen.

🛠️ Contributing & Feedback

Contributions, ideas, and bug reports are always welcome!

• Found a bug? Report it on GitHub Issues.
• Have a feature request? Open a suggestion thread.
• Want to contribute? Fork the repo and submit a pull request.

📄 License

This mod is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

❤️ Acknowledgments

Loot Beams Reforged wouldn't exist without the amazing work that came before it:

• shiroroku — creator of the original Loot Beams (Forge).
• EnsoX — author of Loot Beams Up, the Fabric port this project continues.
• Grend (AHilyard) — for Iceberg and Legendary Tooltips.
• IMS (IMS212) — for the Droplights mod and the Droplight render idea.
• VanderCat — contributions.

Created by [RazorPlay01] — thank you for using the mod and being part of the Minecraft modding community! If you enjoy the mod, please consider leaving a review or a like — it helps a lot!