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CurseForge · Minecraft mod

Better Advanced Tooltips

Adds tag, component and other tooltips to items in F3+H mode

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Latest stable file better-advanced-tooltips-2101.1.0-build.5.jar
Game version 1.21.1
Loader NeoForge

Better Advanced Tooltips better-advanced-tooltips-2101.1.0-build.5.jar targets 1.21.1 with NeoForge. The project page does not say whether it belongs on the client. The project page does not say whether it belongs on the dedicated server. No extra mods listed for this file.

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Loader for this release NeoForge
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What else does Better Advanced Tooltips better-advanced-tooltips-2101.1.0-build.5.jar need?

better-advanced-tooltips-2101.1.0-build.5.jar. Change the file and its required mods may change too.

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Built for Better Advanced Tooltips better-advanced-tooltips-2101.1.0-build.5.jar. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.

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About this project

What does Better Advanced Tooltips add?

Adds tag, component and other tooltips to items in F3+H mode.

Hold Shift key hovering an item to see its tags:

Hovering over some items have special extra tag handling:

  • Sword icon: Item tags
  • Grass block icon: Block tags (Any block item)
  • Pig icon: Entity tags (Spawn Eggs)
  • Bucket icon: Fluid tags (Buckets/fluid containers)
  • Painting icon: Painting tags (Paintings)
  • Enchantment icon: Enchantment tags (Enchanted Books)
  • Piano icon: Instrument tags (Goat Horns/other instrument items)
  • Banner icon: Banner Pattern tags (Banner Patterns)

Example - enchanted book showing all enchantment tags:

If multiple tag types have the same name, they will be merged into the same line, to not clutter screen.

Example - many blocks will have the same block and item tags:

Hold Alt key hovering an item to see its component patch (items that by default don't have this component set, previously called "Custom NBT"):

Hold Alt + Shift keys hovering an item to see its full component map (custom ones will be highlighted yellow):

Hold Shift over fuel items to see their fuel values:

This mod also contains a bunch of chat component icons (see its font/icons.json file for more info):

This mod used to be bundled with KubeJS but now has been moved to being a dependency, planned to be a soft dependency in future.

Project description from CurseForge.

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