Realistic Item Drops
by Silabear
Realistic Item Drops makes items dropped in the world move with physics and settle on the ground, using armor stands as the carrier.
What it does
Dropped items show a physics-based motion and come to rest on the ground in a natural way. The effect is built with armor stands and is delivered as a datapack, so it is added to a world without a loader-specific install. It is run from a world datapack folder and activated with /reload.
Version 3 reduced the code size and made the datapack run faster and with less setup than earlier builds. To remove it, run /function items:clear all before deleting the function, so that items already in the world are cleared. The datapack works on a server, while clients may leave it out.
Files cover 1.16 – 1.21 across Fabric, Forge and Quilt, with 3.4M for 1.21 as the latest release, published 2024-07-07 under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license, which is not open source.
Key features
Physics-based item drops
Dropped items slide and tilt with a motion that settles them on the ground, rather than leaving them floating.
Armor stand mechanics
The visual behaviour is driven by armor stands placed by the datapack, so no extra entity types are needed.
Clean removal command
The /function items:clear all command removes the added state, and should run before the datapack is deleted.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.20.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.19.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.18.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.17.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.16.x6 of 6 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Realistic Item Drops need a loader?
In the catalog
Realistic Item Drops is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,201 Technology mods for Fabric. 15,770 mods support Minecraft 1.21.
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What the author says
Install the datapack into your world, and then run /reload to start it. To uninstall it, make sure to run /function items:clear_all_items before you remove the function! v3 of this pack has minified it, and made it run so much quicker and easier than before, with other cool changes too!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/realistic-item-drops
- Owner
- Silabear
- Published
- 2022-12-29
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-07-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15