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PickupPop

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PickupPop

By Noobyboom

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Client-side pickup notifications for items, experience and recovered arrows, with merging, fade/slide animations and full JSON config.

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Minecraft
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About

Description

PickupPop

A lightweight, client-side pickup-notification mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 (Fabric). Every time you collect items, experience or a recovered arrow, a compact list pops up, merges repeat pickups into a single line, then slides and fades away.

Why this exists

Pick-up notifications are genuinely useful — but most implementations do more work than they need to on paths that run every frame. PickupPop keeps the behaviour people actually like and removes the fat:

  • O(1) pickup merging instead of scanning the visible list for every pickup.
  • Cached text + measured width, rebuilt only when a merged count changes — no per-frame text measuring.
  • No extra fullscreen framebuffer for icon fades (the single most expensive per-frame operation in similar mods).
  • No extra dependencies. Fabric Loader, Fabric API and Yarn only.

Features

  • Item pickup notifications with icons, readable names and accurate quantities.
  • Experience-orb notifications (orb count or total XP value).
  • Recovered-arrow notifications.
  • Merging modes: ALWAYS, NEVER, EXCLUDE_NAMED (renamed stacks stay separate).
  • Configurable duration, screen corner, offsets, scale, text color, sprite/amount display and entry background.
  • Fade and slide-out animations.
  • Hard cap on visible entries and automatic cleanup on disconnect, respawn and world change.
  • Full JSON configuration in config/pickuppop.json that survives restarts.

Requirements

  • Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.1
  • Fabric Loader 0.16.14+
  • Fabric API
  • Java 21

Client-side only — no server installation needed. Works on vanilla servers.

Installation

  1. Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API for Minecraft 1.21.1.
  2. Drop the PickupPop JAR into your mods folder.
  3. Launch the game.

Configuration

config/pickuppop.json is created on first launch with these defaults:

Option Default
includeItems / includeExperience / includeArrows true
combineEntries EXCLUDE_NAMED
displayTime 80 ticks
moveOut / moveTime / fadeAway true / 20 / true
position TOP_LEFT (left edge, capped at half the screen height)
scale / maxHeight 4 / 0.5
maxEntries 20

Relationship to other mods

PickupPop is an independent, clean-room adaptation inspired by Pick Up Notifier by Fuzs (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/pick-up-notifier), which is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. No upstream source file was copied; behaviour ideas only. PickupPop is not affiliated with or endorsed by the upstream authors.

Source code (MPL-2.0): https://github.com/Sekai0NI0itamio/PickupPop

Notes

Performance work is documented in the repository with unit tests and CI benchmarks. In-game frame-rate impact is not claimed without measurement.