Users Getting Started

Getting Started

This page is about Advanced Loot Info. For Advanced Worldgen Info, see Worldgen Info → Getting Started.

Installation

1. Install a loader (Fabric, Forge or NeoForge) and, on Fabric, the Fabric API.
2. Install one recipe viewer: JEI, REI or EMI.
3. Download Advanced Loot Info for your Minecraft version, loader and viewer from Modrinth or CurseForge, and drop the jar into mods/.
4. Install Advanced Core Info (ACI) for the same Minecraft version and loader, from Modrinth or CurseForge. It is a required library, listed as a dependency on both Advanced Loot Info download pages — the Modrinth app, CurseForge app and most launchers fetch it for you. Without it the loader refuses to start Advanced Loot Info.

Optionally, install ALI Compat as well: it teaches Advanced Loot Info to read loot from other mods that ship no support of their own. It is not needed to use the mod — install it if you play with one of the mods it covers. See ALI Compat.

ACI is a shared library, so one copy serves both Advanced Loot Info and Advanced Worldgen Info; installing both mods does not mean installing ACI twice.

The mod is needed on both sides in multiplayer:

• the server scans loot tables and villager trades and holds the result in memory,
• the client asks the server for that data while the recipe viewer loads (at game/world start, not when you open a category), and renders it.

In single player both sides live in the same process, so nothing extra is needed.

First look

Open your recipe viewer and look up any block, mob, or a category icon (a chest, a fishing rod, …). Each loot category is a viewer category of its own, so you can also browse them from the viewer's category list.

Typical entry points:

You look up	You get
a block	what it drops when broken
a mob (or its spawn egg)	what it drops when killed, where it spawns, and what it trades
a chest / fishing rod / brush / gold ingot …	the corresponding gameplay loot table
an emerald	villager trades

How to read the resulting tree — chances, counts, conditions, colored slots — is described in Interface.

Configuration in short

Everything the mod scans and shows is driven by one JSON file, config/ali/ali_common.json. You do not need to touch it to use the mod; edit it when you want to add categories, hide loot, or work around a broken entity. See Configuration.

Adding your own information

• To display drops that are hardcoded in game code and therefore have no loot table (e.g. the Nether Star from the Wither), use a datapack: Fake Loot.
• To make a mod's loot entries, conditions or functions display properly, the mod itself should ship a plugin: Developers. For mods that do not, see ALI Compat.