Overly Complicated Garbage

Items dropped into the world normally despawn, but in this mod they stay on the ground indestructible and never disappear. Players who accidentally throw away something important can search for a Garbage Dump biome, where small piles of garbage appear, and dig through Suspicious Garbage Blocks with a brush to recover random stacks of items that were once thrown away. Garbage trucks, which appear after a time, collect garbage that is left out for them.

Trash is handled through crafted containers. A Garbage Bag holds up to 128 items, counted against the stack size of what it carries and only while held in the main hand, and a Trash Can takes bags inside it. Items cannot be retrieved from a bag unless it is broken. Eco-Friendly Plastic is made from vegetal items, and a Biomass Processor turns organic material into something usable, with ash as one of the outputs. Players who want a single bag can avoid crafting many of them by using an empty sticky bag made with a slime ball.

The mod is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only. It runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it, and it targets Fabric for 1.21.4 only. The latest file is 1.0 for 1.21.4, published 2025-12-23, and its source code and issue tracker are public.