Skip to content

Tooltips and borders

Rarity is visible in item names, tooltips, inventory slots, and hotbar slots. Common and unidentified items deliberately stay understated.

Tooltip anatomy

Diamond pickaxe
Diamond Pickaxe Rarity: Epic
[ Utility Perks ]
II Break Efficiency: +14% block-breaking speed
III Vein Miner: breaks up to 6 extra matching blocks

An item can show:

  1. rarity-colored or animated item name;
  2. Rarity: <Tier> directly below the name;
  3. a rarity-bonus header and multiplier;
  4. individual stat lines;
  5. a Utility Perks section on eligible tools;
  6. custom server lore at the end.

Unidentified items instead use a purple italic name and Rarity: ???.

Rarity frame styles

The 1.21.11 build includes its own tooltip frame textures. The other builds create matching rarity treatments through their version's rendering system.

Full-mode themes become more elaborate as rarity rises:

Tier Visual language
Uncommon Thin green frame, corner marks, soft nature glow
Rare Double crystal/frost frame and sparkles
Epic Pulsing arcane frame, rune marks, magic particles
Legendary Royal frame with rainbow traveling light
Mythical Pulsing void frame and ghostly particles
Supreme Infernal red frame, embers, and traveling light

Border modes

Mode Result
FULL Full themed decorations and animation
SIMPLE Lighter static framed treatment
STATIC Plain rarity-colored frames
OFF No custom tooltip, inventory, or hotbar border

Turning off animated borders while keeping FULL makes the full mode use a simpler static path.

Text animation

enableChromaTextEffects controls animated item names, rarity text, bonus headers, and perk colors. If disabled, each tier uses its static base color.

rainbowSpeed controls the cycle duration for every chroma type—not only Legendary. Lower values animate faster.

If the effects are distracting

Try these in order:

  1. keep borders on but set enableAnimatedBorders = false;
  2. set borderRenderMode = "SIMPLE";
  3. disable enableChromaTextEffects;
  4. use STATIC for plain frames;
  5. use OFF or showCustomBorders = false to remove borders completely.

These choices change presentation only. The item's stored rarity, stats, and perks remain the same.