HologramMod — Text, Block & Item Display Holograms with Full In-Game Editing

Built as a companion to ChatMod. Sprite aliases from ChatMod's sprites.yml work directly inside hologram lines — drop an atlas icon anywhere in your text with [#spriteName].

What It Does

HologramMod lets you place floating text, block, and item displays anywhere in your world — all managed through YAML config files and in-game commands that save back to disk automatically. No restarts needed. Everything supports rich colour codes, hex colours, click events, hover text, and atlas sprites.

Features

📝 Text Holograms — /hologram

Floating text displays with per-line formatting. Full ChatMod syntax supported on every line.

holograms:
  spawn_welcome:
    world: "minecraft:overworld"
    x: 0.5
    y: 65.0
    z: 0.5
    scale: 1.2
    billboard: CENTER
    brightness: 15
    shadow: true
    lines:
      - "&#FF5500&lWelcome to the Server!"
      - "[#christmas_chest] &7Seasonal crates are open"
      - "<action:run_command,/spawn>&a[ Click to teleport ]"

Line syntax:

• &a, &b … &r — legacy colour and format codes
• &#RRGGBB — hex colour
• [#spriteName] — atlas sprite from ChatMod's sprites.yml
• {hover text} — hover event on the preceding segment
• <action:run_command,/cmd> — click event on the preceding segment

Appearance settings: billboard (CENTER / FIXED / HORIZONTAL / VERTICAL), scale, brightness (0–15), see_through, shadow, line_width, opacity, bg_color, view_range_blocks

🔄 Multi-Page Animation

Any text hologram supports multiple pages that cycle automatically on a configurable interval. Useful for rotating announcements or animated signs.

animate: true
animate_interval_ms: 3000
pages:
  default:
    - "&aPage one"
  a:
    - "&bPage two"
  b:
    - "&cPage three"

Use /hologram <name> freeze <page> to pin a specific page, or /hologram <name> freeze off to resume cycling.

👤 Per-Player Placeholder Lines

Any line containing %player% or other player-specific tokens is resolved individually for each player — one entity, personalised text per viewer, no per-player entity duplication.

Built-in placeholders:

Placeholder API placeholders are also resolved automatically when the mod is installed.

🧱 Block Display Holograms — /holoblock

Spawn floating block displays with full block-state support, including rotation and translation offsets.

block_displays:
  my_block:
    world: "minecraft:overworld"
    x: 0.5
    y: 65.0
    z: 0.5
    block_state: "minecraft:stone_slab[type=top]"
    billboard: FIXED
    scale: 0.5
    rotation_yaw: 45.0

Double-block auto-detection: Beds, doors, and tall plants are automatically split into two correctly-offset display entities. Specify just the base block ID — HologramMod handles both halves.

🗡️ Item Display Holograms — /holoitem

Spawn floating item displays with configurable display context, controlling exactly how the item model is oriented.

item_displays:
  floating_sword:
    world: "minecraft:overworld"
    x: 0.5
    y: 65.0
    z: 0.5
    item: "minecraft:diamond_sword"
    display_context: FIXED
    billboard: CENTER
    scale: 1.0

Display contexts: FIXED, GROUND, GUI, HEAD, THIRD_PERSON_LEFT_HAND, THIRD_PERSON_RIGHT_HAND, FIRST_PERSON_LEFT_HAND, FIRST_PERSON_RIGHT_HAND

📊 Scoreboard Holograms — /holoscore

Live leaderboard displays that update automatically when scores change. Three data sources supported:

score_holograms:
  top_kills:
    world: "minecraft:overworld"
    x: 100.5
    y: 65.0
    z: 200.5
    source_type: scoreboard
    scoreboard: kills
    update_mode: scoreboard
    lines:
      - "&6&lTop Kills"
      - "&e#%rank% &f%displayname% &7— &a%score%"

Pagination: Use /holoscore <name> newpage to chain a second hologram that continues from where the first left off.

Update modes: scoreboard (fires when top-N changes) or timed (fires every update_interval_ms milliseconds).

In-Game Commands

All commands save back to their respective YAML files automatically.

Text Holograms /hologram /holo

Block Displays /holoblock

create, remove, list, move, block, set, rotate — same pattern as /hologram.

Item Displays /holoitem

create, remove, list, move, item, context, set, rotate — same pattern as /hologram.

Scoreboard Holograms /holoscore

create <name> <type> <objective>, remove, list, move, set, newpage, reload.

Permissions

Works with LuckPerms and Fabric Permissions API.

Configuration Files

All files live under config/hologrammod/. Use /hologram reload after any edit — no restart required.

Dependencies

Modpack Policy: ✅ Free to include in any modpack. ❌ The modpack must not be sold.