Simple Display Items
by HuoKnight
With Simple Display Items, players craft a paper that turns any item into a display piece, and a second paper switches the display off again.
What it does
The mod is a datapack, so it changes game behavior through data files rather than new code, and it is aimed at server administrators who want to control item interaction. Crafting uses a recipe that players can replace or alter, and the author describes replacing the recipe with a longer file of the same name when a different craft is wanted. After a reload, players who hold the recipe can craft the papers.
The display mode works by placing an item on a block and throwing the Display paper on top of it. Green particles mark that the display is active, and the item can be taken out again by throwing the Display Off paper, which lets the player pick the item up immediately. Floating items are made immune to fire. The mod runs on the server, and players need nothing installed beyond the datapack reload, so it fits multiplayer servers that want decorative item displays without extra client mods.
The mod is published for Fabric, Forge and Quilt across nine release versions, 1.17 – 1.19.3, under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license. It is not open source. Windows users need file extensions enabled to rename the recipe file to papers.json.
Key features
Display paper
A crafted paper that places the held item into a display mode when thrown on top of a block.
Display Off paper
A second paper that ends display mode, so the item can be taken out immediately.
Item interaction control
Server administrators can disable interaction with display items through the datapack.
Fire immunity for floating items
Floating display items cannot be destroyed by fire.
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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
Who it’s for: Server administrators who want decorative item displays and control over how players interact with them, and players on servers that run the mod.
Questions
Does Simple Display Items need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders can run Simple Display Items?
How is the recipe changed?
In the catalog
Simple Display Items is one of 5,392 Social mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,084 Social mods for Fabric. 7,205 mods support Minecraft 1.19.3.
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What the author says
This will give you two papers, one called "Display On" and one called "Display Off". To put an item in "display mode", throw the item on the block you want, then throw the "Display On" paper on top. If you see green particles, then it worked.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/simple-display-items
- Owner
- HuoKnight
- Published
- 2022-12-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-01-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15