ItemHighlighter

Mod id itemhighlighter · Minecraft 26.3 · Fabric, Forge, NeoForge · Requires Mycel. Client side.

Hold an item, give it a color, spot it instantly. Highlighted items get a glowing tint on the item texture itself in your hotbar, offhand, inventories, and chests, a colored ★ Highlighted tooltip line, and a glowing outline in the world on dropped items and item frames. No keybinds, no GUI: everything runs through the /hl client command.

Dropped items on grass: diamonds with a red glowing outline, emeralds green, a golden sword gold; the hotbar shows the same items tinted. — Diamonds, emeralds and a golden sword, each highlighted in its own color: glowing in the world, tinted in the hotbar.

How it works

Where highlights show up, per-type versus exact matching, and what the mod never touches.

Features

Tweak it

Five settings total: colors, tooltip, texture highlight, and exact matching, plus live reload.

Configuration

Questions

Why everything of one type lit up, why /hl &a&lMy Axe does not rename anything, and where highlights are stored.

FAQ

The short version

Hold the item and type /hl #ff55aa. Legacy codes like /hl &a (or §a) work too; anything after the color is ignored.
/hl with no color uses your configured defaultColor. /hl clear removes the held item's highlight, /hl list shows them all.
By default every item of that type highlights. Turn on matchComponents to highlight only the exact held item (same enchantments, name, damage, and components).
Highlights persist in config/itemhighlighter_data.json across restarts (up to 256 items).
Client side and per player: other players never see your highlights, and you never see theirs.

Quick links

Installing (remember the Mycel jar too)
Commands (the full /hl reference and live reload)