Chest DNA | Minecraft Mod 1.7.10 - 26.2 |

by xsoras · 2026-08-12 · Mods

 Chest DNA Records where every item came from and shows it in the item's tooltip. Open a chest and you get loot with no story. Chest DNA fixes that: the moment an item is created it gets an origin stamped onto it, and that stamp travels with the item for the rest of its life. What it does Whenever an item enters the world - looted from a chest, dropped by a mob, bought from a villager, fished up, crafted, smelted or mined - Chest DNA attaches an origin to it containing: Source - village, dungeon, End City, ancient city, mob, trade, workbench, … Detail - the loot table it rolled from, or the entity that dropped it Biome and dimension it came from Coordinates of the exact spot Structure it was found inside, when there is one Who obtained it, by name This is stored as a real data component, so it survives world saves, shulker boxes, ender chests and multiplayer - and it is readable by commands, datapacks and other mods. What it looks like Hovering the item draws a pixel-art card under the normal tooltip, drawn one pixel at a time with no textures, so it stays crisp at every GUI scale: source name on top, tier stamped underneath frame colour by rarity - grey for a village chest, gold