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Sinking Items

by NeoFur

Sinking Items makes dropped items sink in water again, so players on modern clients who join older servers see the old behavior.

FabricClient-side onlyGNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or laterOpen source1.14.4 – 26.2

What it does

Items that fall into water sink instead of floating on the surface, matching how they behaved before the Aquatic Update. The mod is aimed at modern clients that connect to older servers through ViaVersion, where items should behave as they do on that server. It is client-side only: only the client needs it, and the server runs without it. Files are published for Fabric, across 43 release versions 1.14.4 – 26.2, and the code is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, so the project is open source.

Key features

  1. Sinking items in water

    Dropped items sink in water as they did before the Aquatic Update, restoring the older behavior.

  2. Familiar item physics

    Items behave the same way they do on an older server, so a modern client connected through ViaVersion shows familiar physics.

  3. Fixed teleporting bug

    The mod prevents a teleporting-down glitch that appears when items float on modern clients, by keeping the client on the older code path.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

26.x4 of 4 versions with builds
26.21.0.1
26.1.21.0.1
26.1.11.0.1
26.11.0.1
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
1.21.111.0.1
1.21.101.0.1
1.21.91.0.1
1.21.81.0.1
1.21.71.0.1
1.21.61.0.1
1.21.51.0.1
1.21.41.0.1
1.21.31.0.1
1.21.21.0.1
1.21.11.0.1
1.211.0.1
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 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
1.15.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.14.x1 of 1 version with builds
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Questions

Does Sinking Items need to be installed on the server?

No. Only the player's game needs it, and servers run without it. The server can run without it.

Which loader does Sinking Items support?

Sinking Items is published for Fabric only. The latest Fabric file is 1.0.1 for 26.2, released 2026-06-16.

In the catalog

Sinking Items is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.

Game mechanics mods29,952Fabric modsMods for 26.213,894

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What the author says

The WITHOUT side shows how items behave when a 1.13+ client is connected to a 1.12.2- server running ViaVersion (ViaVersion is what allows modern clients to connect to older servers) The WITH side shows how items behave when using Sinking Items. Items behave exactly the same way as the 1.12.2 server. This prevents…
NeoFur, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
NeoFur
Published
2026-04-25
Updated on Modrinth
2026-06-16
Facts verified
2026-10-15

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