Pickup Card

Every item you pick up becomes a card on your HUD

Overview

• Pickup Card pops a card whenever you pick up an item or XP: item icon, name and how much you gained, with rarity deciding the accent colour — picking things up is no longer just a "ding" and an extra slot in your inventory;
• A client-side mod: nothing goes on the server, it works on any server and in any modpack, with no required dependencies;
• Every card is drawn as vectors with NanoVG, with no vanilla hint textures and no rendering library to install.

Features

• 🃏 Card notices — a card per pickup, items or XP: rarity bar + item icon + name + count;
• ➕ Merging — grabbing the same thing again merges into the same card (four modes), with the count rolling up instead of spamming the screen;
• 🔇 Three filter lists — blacklist (never shown), whitelist (always shown and highlighted) and muted (shown, but not highlighted); rules accept minecraft:stone / #forge:ores / @somebotania, and the built-in ignore list for the usual spam items can be switched off wholesale;
• ✨ Rarity accent — vanilla's four tier colours (white / yellow / aqua / purple); with RarityCore installed it switches to its seven tiers and your own colours, plus an entrance shimmer and a tiered glow on high-rarity cards;
• 🆕 NEW badge — items you have not seen this session light up once;
• 🧍 Only your pickups — the signal is filtered by picker, so other players looting or a zombie picking up gear never puts a card on your screen;
• 📐 Placement & stacking — cards land in the strip to the right of the hotbar, right-aligned by default; the anchor is draggable, the card can be mirrored (bar moved to the far right), spacing is adjustable, and scaling is automatic (shrinks only when needed, floor 60%) or manual (50%–200%);
• 🚦 Queue when full — a full screen queues new pickups instead of pushing old cards out; when the queue is full too they collapse into one "N more" overflow card;
• 🎛️ Every animation switchable — entrance, merge pulse and glow breathing each have their own switch; entrance and exit each come in several shapes (slide / wipe, fade / train retract / wipe close);
• 🎨 Card look is data — colours, corner radius, border, padding and animation timings live in a theme JSON; change one file and it takes effect within a second, no restart;
• ⚙️ Config screen — press K: paged, scrollable, hover explanations, and a preview that uses the real card painter and replays the whole timeline, so any timing key you touch is visible immediately.

Compatibility

Configuration

Changing things in game is recommended — press K; the screen shows the values in effect and writes them to disk immediately. The file behind it is config/pickupcard-client.toml, and the commonly changed keys are:

The deprecated keys stickTo and leftEdge are read and ignored (replaced by anchorX / anchorY). A card's appearance is not in the TOML — it lives in the theme JSON, see "Card look is data" above.

Known Limitations

• Only 1.20.1 Forge ships (the 1.21.1 targets are recorded as not implemented);
• The muted list only affects emphasis — it does not mute vanilla's pickup sound;
• At the largest GUI scale (a 320×180 canvas) English interface labels shrink a little — they do not overlap, but they are not comfortable to read;
• No server component, so server-only information is out of reach: renamed items and NBT take the route of grabbing the real entity before it is removed, which covers almost every case.

FAQ

• Do I need it on the server? No — there is no server component; it works on any server, including vanilla servers and other people's modpacks;
• Will I see cards when other players pick things up? No. Only your own pickups pop a card;
• I picked up a whole stack — why is there only one card? That is merging; set merge.mode to NEVER for a separate card every time;
• I changed the TOML and nothing happened. Check for leftover old keys first (stickTo / leftEdge / merge.enabled / merge.windowMs are deprecated and ignored); appearance settings live in the theme JSON, not in the TOML;
• No cards at all? Check in order: the master switch enabled, the blacklist on the filter page, then whether the on-screen and queue limits are full;
• The config screen will not open? The key is K (rebindable in vanilla Controls); if another mod has taken it, use the TOML or pick another key.

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