Hand Alike

Dropped items are drawn with the same model a player sees when holding them in first or third person. Custom item models and resource pack overrides are kept, so a dropped item keeps the appearance set by a pack rather than falling back to a flat sprite. The effect is limited to the visual side of drops on the client.

Hand Alike runs on Fabric and is a client-side only mod: only the client needs it, and a server can run without it. Its author describes it as lightweight with minimal performance impact. The mod is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license and is not open source. Fabric builds exist for 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2 and 26.2, with the latest file, 26.2+1.0, dated 2026-07-04. Snapshot builds are published as well.

The mod suits players who use resource packs with custom held items, and anyone who wants dropped items in the world to match what they carry. It does not add items, blocks or recipes.