Be Gone Leaf Clutter
Be Gone Leaf Clutter stops leaf litter from dropping when blocks are broken, so leaves only drop when cut with shears, the way vines behave.
What it does
Leaf litter is normally dropped from leaves in ways that clutter the ground. This mod changes that so leaf litter only drops when leaves are broken with shears, matching how vines already work. The change is delivered as a small datapack, which means it can be added to a world without installing anything on the client.
The datapack goes into the datapacks folder of a world, and on a server it goes into the server's own datapacks folder. Because the environment is server required, a server owner installs it and players may keep the mod out of their own game. The mod is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with files for 26.2 as the latest build and snapshot builds included.
The license is Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0, and the project is not open source. The author states that the work may be used only for commercial, non-commercial, educational, research and personal projects, and that it may not be used to train artificial intelligence systems, which is a restriction beyond the standard license terms. Files were first published on 2025-10-05 and last updated on 2026-06-18.
Key features
Shears-only leaf litter
Leaf litter drops only when leaves are broken with shears, which keeps ordinary block breaking from scattering it.
Datapack delivery
The change ships as a datapack, so it is added to a world or server without a loader-specific mod in the game.
Vine-like behavior
The drop rule follows the way vines work, so leaf litter is handled the same way as another natural decoration.
Small, focused scope
The datapack changes only the leaf litter drop, leaving other world behavior as it was.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.
How it compares
Less Leaf Litter is a server required mod for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, covering 1.21.5 – 26.2, under All rights reserved. Leaves Be Gone Backport is a server-side only mod for Fabric, built for 1.16.5 and open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Be Gone Leaf Clutter uses a datapack rather than a loader mod, and its license is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Be Gone Leaf Clutter | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-06-18 |
| Less Leaf Litter | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.5 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-08-09 |
| Leaves Be Gone Backport | Fabric | 1.16.5 | Server-side only | 2026-06-12 |
Questions
Does Be Gone Leaf Clutter need a loader?
Does a client need the mod?
Which game versions are covered?
Can the datapack be used for AI training?
In the catalog
Be Gone Leaf Clutter is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Also Check Out my other projects at theblackswitch.com! This is a very small datapack that fixes the clutter caused by leaf litter. Leaf litter now only dorps when using shears just like any other vines.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/be-gone-leaf-clutter
- Owner
- theblackswitch
- Published
- 2025-10-05
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-18
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15