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Shiny Pings
Client-side mod to ping whatever you're looking at - mob glow + advancement-style toast, plus a live distance card for dropped items. Works on any server.
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What it does
- Ping an entity → it gets a glow outline and a fake advancement toast pops in the top-right ("You spotted a Zombie") using vanilla's real advancement UI (smooth slide + sound), with the mob's representative drop as the icon (zombie → rotten flesh, creeper → gunpowder, …).
- The ping spreads → when you spot a mob, the spot jumps on its own to mobs within a 10-block radius, and from each of those to their neighbours, wave by wave (with an amethyst sound at each hop). Each mob is spotted only once, so it never loops: if A → B → C and C is next to A, A is skipped because it was already marked.
- Ping a dropped item → a card appears at the top-centre of the screen: the item inside a dark slot (the F4 menu slot) with the distance to the item below it (updated live as you move). It lasts ~10 seconds, and the item on the ground also glows so you can find it in the world.
Both the item card and the mob toast show one at a time: if you ping something else before the previous one fades, it's cut and the new one takes over (they don't stack).
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as shiny-pings-1.0.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 27 KB
- Download link checked 22 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.