Loot Log: Pickup Notifier

The most feature-rich and configurable pickup notifier available for Minecraft.

Loot Log is a highly customizable pickup notifier HUD for items and XP. Smart item stacking, live count updates, smooth animations, custom banner textures with animation support, per-item overrides, visual effects, filtering, extensive layout control, and EmbersTextAPI compatibility for rich text effects -- all configurable down to the last detail.

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Features

Pickup Tracking

• Real-time item and XP pickup notifications
• Smart stacking of duplicate items with pickup count (+3) and total inventory count (x64)
• Three combine modes: Always merge duplicates, Never merge, or Exclude Named items
• Count abbreviation for large numbers (1,500 → "1.5K")

Animated & Polished

• Smooth fade-in/fade-out with configurable duration
• Slide-in animation from screen edges
• Scale pop-in entrance effect
• Stagger delay for cascading item appearance
• Four easing functions: Quad Out, Cubic Out, Back Out, Elastic Out

Highly Customizable Visuals

• 5 background styles: None, Solid, Tooltip (vanilla style), Texture (9-slice, resource pack friendly), Banner (multi-layer textured, default), and Flat
• Custom banner textures with multi-layer support (body + accent), independent offsets, and animated texture strips
• Banner accent anchoring options (icon, center, edge) for precise visual control
• Icon glow with configurable color, radius, shape (circle, square, diamond, item silhouette), softness, and pulsing
• Icon shadow with offset and blur
• Icon bounce on pickup
• Pickup pulse animation with per-element strength controls
• Progress bar showing remaining display time
• Rarity-based text coloring (Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic)
• Full text shadow control

Positioning & Layout

• Anchor to any screen corner (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right)
• Configurable X/Y offset, entry spacing, and growth direction
• Global HUD scaling (0.25x to 4x)
• Reorder layout elements: icon, name, pickup count, total count
• Screen clamping to prevent off-screen rendering

Filtering

• Item blacklist and whitelist by item ID
• Mod blacklist and whitelist by namespace
• Force-show specific items that would otherwise be filtered

Sound Notifications

• Optional sound on pickup with configurable sound ID, volume, and pitch

Per-Item Overrides (JSON)

Create JSON files in config/lootlog/overrides/ to customize behavior for specific items:

• Match by item ID, tag, mod namespace, rarity, or regex
• Override display duration, text, sound, scale, background style, combine mode, and all visual effects per item
• Priority system for controlling which overrides take precedence

EmbersTextAPI Support

Compatible with EmbersTextAPI for rich text effects in item names via per-item overrides -- use tags like <rainbow>, color codes, and more to make specific pickups stand out.

Config GUI

Full in-game configuration screen when YACL is installed. On Fabric, also integrates with Mod Menu.

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Dependencies

Required: None (beyond Minecraft and your mod loader)

Optional:

• YACL v3.3+ — In-game config GUI
• Mod Menu — Config button in the mod list (Fabric)
• EmbersTextAPI — Rich text effects (rainbow, colors, etc.) in pickup names