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Scattered Shards

Mod

Collectible trading cards... without the trading—Shards! A tactile, convenient alternative to advancements for adventure maps.

Type

Mod

Modrinth Downloads

9,578

Modrinth ID

DB9GU3tx

Last Updated

May 20, 2026

Description

Scattered Shards adds a system of collectible "shards" that can be created via a UI and placed in-world.

Type /shards or use a Shard Tablet any time to view shows obtained and missing shards. There is also a keybind to open the tablet; it is not bound by default, so you may want to create a default setting for your modpack!

Features:

  • Shards can have titles, descriptions, and face art in the form of item stacks or arbitrary textures
    • Shards can also have a "hint", which is shown in standard galactic until moused over
  • Shards have a "type" e.g. clubs, foil, rare, secret, difficult (data-driven)
    • Shard types can have custom names, textures, and collection sounds (resource-driven)
  • Shards are arranged into "sets" which can have one shard of each type
    • Suggested as installed mod IDs by default, but can be completely arbitrary (locations, skillsets, etc)

shards screen preview

Shard Creation

  • Run /shardc creator new [set] [type] to open the shard creator - set can be an arbitary ID
    • In the shard creator, you can fill in the title, description, hint, and icon for the shard
    • If you used an installed mod ID for the set, you can enable "use mod icon" to use the mod icon
  • To allow regular players to collect the shard, either:
    • Run /shard block [shard] and place the provided block - this collects the shard when walking over
    • Place a command block with e.g. /shard award @p [shard] - this collects the shard for the nearest player

shard creator screen preview

Shard Types

See Wiki: Creating Shard Types for a tutorial on customizing what types of shards are available to create.

This mod was originally created by Falkreon and acikek as a base mod for BlanketCon '23. Feel free to contribute bugfixes and improvements!

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Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric Neoforge Quilt

Game Versions

1.20 1.20.1 1.20.4 1.21 1.21.1 1.21.5 1.21.7 26.1 26.1.1 26.1.2

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