air-drop
by createmeow
With air-drop installed, a flare fired from a flare gun calls a supply crate to the spot where it lands, giving players another way to gather loot.
What it does
Air-drop adds flare guns and an advanced flare gun. Firing a flare marks a location, and a crate is summoned there. Higher tiers hold more items and rarer loot, and each summoned crate is one of three levels that scale in size and rarity. Configuration files let server owners adjust in-game parameters and tune the loot to suit their situation, which suits multiplayer servers that want supply drops without building a custom system.
Loot from mods that are detected at startup is added to the airdrop loot tables, so items from supported mods can appear in crates. Installation needs only NeoForge for 1.21.1. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. The code is released under the MIT License and is open source, with public source code and an issue tracker. Files are published for NeoForge 1.21.1, with 1.0.5 as the latest file, dated 2026-07-27.
Key features
Flare gun call
Firing a flare from the flare gun calls an airdrop crate to the location where the flare lands.
Advanced flare gun
The advanced flare gun is used to summon higher-tier crates that contain rarer loot.
Three crate tiers
Normal, Intermediate and Advanced crates offer increasing quantities of items and rarer loot.
Adjustable loot and settings
Configuration files let server owners change in-game parameters and adjust the loot to their situation.
Detected mod loot
Items from supported mods that are detected at startup are added to the airdrop loot tables.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Multiplayer supply drops
A server can use airdrops as an extra way for players to gather resources, with loot set in its configuration files.
Who it’s for: Server owners and players on NeoForge 1.21.1 who want a flare-based supply system. Single-player players can use it as well, since the mod runs on the client alone.
Questions
Does Air-drop require the mod on both sides?
Which loader and version does Air-drop support?
Can server owners change the loot in crates?
In the catalog
air-drop is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 7,420 Equipment mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
AirDrop is a NeoForge 1.21.1 mod that adds the ability to call in supply drops using flare guns, providing players with an extra way to gather resources. The mod includes configuration files that allow you to adjust in-game parameters to your liking.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/air-drop
- Owner
- createmeow
- Published
- 2026-07-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-27
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15