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.
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.
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
