How To Guide

HowToGuide is a server-side and client-side Minecraft mod (available for Fabric and NeoForge) that lets modpack developers send animated popup messages to their players — complete with interactive click actions and conditional logic.

Visual Customization

Each popup can be fully customized:

• Title and subtitle text with custom fonts, colors, sizes, bold, italic
• Text effects: rainbow, wave, shake, typewriter, obfuscation (random or full)
• Positioning: custom X/Y offsets, screen anchor point, random position/rotation
• Background on/off, custom wrap width
• Companion items and textures rendered alongside the popup
• Click areas with actions or conditions

Made easier with Preset Editor (Can be opened via keybinds)

Can be dragged around with Dev GUI (can be opened via keybinds & is able to show up on to of screens)

Commands

• /howtoguide show — Display a popup to specific players with full options (all popups with hardcoded styles)
• /howtoguide custom — Display a popup from raw NBT configuration (popup with customizable data)
• /howtoguide preset — Trigger a named preset from your config
• /howtoguide clearall — Clear all active popups (optionally filtered by preset)

All keybinds are unbound by default — rebind them in Controls settings before use.

Requires Immersive Messages API & Caxton as a dependency.