Clear Despawn — Modern Port for Minecraft 1.21.11 (NeoForge)

Makes items blink before they despawn — so you never lose loot again.

Clear Despawn makes dropped items visibly blink/flash as they approach their despawn time, warning you to pick them up in time. No more returning to a farm or battlefield to find your drops silently gone.

Now with a modern port for Minecraft 1.21.11 (NeoForge), rebuilt for 26.3's new render-state rendering pipeline (ItemEntityRenderState, extractRenderState/submit) — the blink decision is captured when the render state is extracted and applied when the item is submitted.

What it does

• Items blink on/off when close to despawning (configurable start time)
• urgentFlash mode: blinking gets faster the closer the item is to despawning
• Client-side only — no server required

Configuration

Config file: config/itamio_cleardespawn.json (created on first run).

• flashStartTime — seconds before despawn when blinking starts (default: 20, range 0–300)
• despawnTime — total lifetime of dropped items in ticks (default: 6000, i.e. 5 minutes)
• urgentFlash — faster blinking near despawn (default: true)

Modern port notes (26.3)

• Renderer replacement rewritten for the render-state pipeline
• EntityType.ITEM lookup via registry id (the constant was renamed in 26.3)
• Java 25 · Fabric Loader 0.20.1+ · Fabric API 0.165.0+26.3
• Built and verified in CI via GitHub Actions

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.3
2. Install Fabric API
3. Drop cleardespawn263-*.jar into your mods folder

Original mod & credit

This is an unofficial modern port by Itamio of ClearDespawn by StrikerRockers-Mods (StrikerRocker) — the original (3M+ downloads on Modrinth, last updated for 1.20.2) has not been updated to 26.3.

• Original mod: https://modrinth.com/mod/cleardespawn
• Original source: https://github.com/StrikerRockers-Mods/ClearDespawn/
• License: MIT — see LICENSE

All credit for the original concept, design, and logic goes to StrikerRocker and the StrikerRockers-Mods team. This port exists to bring it to Minecraft 26.3. See NOTICE.