Other mods

Busy Bodies does not need to know a mod to show its screens. If it opens a screen, the panel shows it.

What works out of the box#

• Live copies of any screen. The live picture is a copy of what is on the player's screen, so another mod's machine, backpack or menu shows exactly as it looks, modded items and all.
• The right icon on the panel. From farther away the panel shows the mod's own block or item: the machine being used, or the item in the player's hand.
• Flying items. Modded items fly between a container and the panel like any other.
• Arm poses. Items with their own pose can be listed in the arm rules file, one by one or a whole mod at once.

Tried first with Ex Nihilo Reborn#

Ex Nihilo Reborn was the first mod Busy Bodies was checked against. Its auto sieve and cobblestone generator each get a live copy of their screen, and the panel icon is the machine itself.

How the icon is picked#

1. If the menu is named after an item (a "cobblestone generator" menu and a cobblestone generator item), that item.
2. Otherwise the block the player is using, when it comes from the same mod as the menu.
3. Otherwise the item in their hand, when it comes from that mod.
4. Otherwise a barrel, which viewers can hide with the Unknown screens switch.

Hiding a mod's screen#

A screen that shows something private can be kept out of live copies with one line in busybodies-screens.json:

[ { "screen": "*MailboxScreen", "crop": "none", "radius": 0 } ]

On Paper#

Paper servers do not run mods, so there are no modded menus to show there. Client-only mods' screens, such as a mod list, are still copied.

Written for version 0.2.0 · Minecraft 26.3