ItemBeacon
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.21–26.x. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
Highlights dropped items with customizable beacon beams and lightweight particles. Fully client-side with rarity, type, count, and item filters.
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ItemBeacon makes dropped items easy to find by rendering customizable beacon beams and lightweight particles above them.
Features
- Completely client-side
no server installation or custom network packets required
- Depth-aware rendering
beacon beams stay hidden behind walls instead of acting like X-ray
- Flexible filters
show beacons by rarity, item category, stack count, or a custom item list
- Custom colors
configure colors for each rarity or individual registered items
- Customizable beams
adjust length, inner and outer thickness, opacity, and smooth tip fading
- Two particle styles
rising and wisp particles with adjustable amount, speed, size, and color
- Built-in texture editor
create, import, export, rename, and manage custom beam and particle masks
- Performance controls
configurable render distance, tracked-item limit, particle limit, and frustum culling
Configuration
Press B by default to open the ItemBeacon settings screen.
The settings screen is provided by Simple GUI API and includes dedicated tabs for general settings, display conditions, beacon layers, particles, textures, and individual items.
Requirements
- Simple GUI API 1.5.2 or newer
- A supported Fabric, Forge, or NeoForge client
ItemBeacon and Simple GUI API only need to be installed on the client. They are not required on the server.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as ItemBeacon-Fabric-1.0.0+1.21.x+26.1.x+26.2.x+26.3-snapshot.x.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 788 KB
- Download link checked 5 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.