Pick Up Notifier — a mod for adding notifications about picked up items and blocks in Minecraft

Pick Up Notifier — a mod for adding notifications about picked up items and blocks in Minecraft 

In vanilla Minecraft, the only way to know exactly what entered your inventory after gathering items from the ground is to open it. Pick Up Notifier solves this problem: the mod displays a compact list of recently picked up items and experience right on the screen. The list appears in the corner of the screen, stays for a few seconds, and disappears with a smooth animation — without the need to get distracted from the game. 

Pickup Log 

Every item picked up from the ground creates an entry in the log — a small list in the corner of the screen. The entry contains the item's icon, its name, and the quantity. After 4 seconds, the entry fades out and moves off the screen.

The mod records three types of pickups: items, experience orbs, and retrieved arrows. For experience orbs, the total number of points is displayed by default, rather than the number of individual orbs. Each of the three types can be turned on and off separately in the config.

If you pick up another block of the same item while the entry is still visible, the quantity is updated instead of creating a new row. Items renamed on an anvil do not merge with items of the same type by default.

Picking up several items from the ground — the pickup log appears in the lower right corner of the screen

Item Filtering 

Through the hidden_items parameter in the client config, you can hide individual items or entire categories from being displayed in the log. The format of the entries is <namespace>:<path>. Tags (format #<namespace>:<path>) and wildcards with the * symbol are supported. If no namespace is specified, minecraft is used by default. An entry with a ! at the beginning excludes an item from the match — useful for refining after a broad wildcard. 

Example — hide all shulker boxes:

hidden_items = ["minecraft:*_shulker_box"]

Server-side

The mod works without the server side as well — the client is enough. A server installation adds one feature: logging partial pickups (when there is not enough space in the inventory for a full stack and only a portion is picked up). This is controlled by the partial_pick_ups parameter. A side effect is that it may accidentally log items that were not actually picked up. 

The client_only parameter in the client config forces the mod into client mode. It activates automatically if the server side is not installed on the server. Manual activation may be needed in case of double logging of the same pickups — but then partial pickups and compatibility with backpacks stop working.

Modified item pickup interface through the config file

Config

Configuration files are located in .minecraft/config. They can be edited with a text editor.  

Client Config — [display] section 

Appearance parameters of log entries. 

Client Config — [general] section 

General pickup tracking parameters. 

Client Config — [behavior] section

Animation and time interval parameters.

Server config 

Conclusion

Pick Up Notifier adds informational animation when picking up items in Minecraft. The mod is lightweight, does not change the gameplay, and gives full control over the appearance and behavior of the log through the config. The mod is suitable for long-term survival, resource farming, and large modpacks, where controlling inventory contents without unnecessarily opening the menu saves time.