About Improved Signs
From ModrinthImprovements for your signs and frames on your Fabric server. Passthrough signs, retain sign text, copy signs & more!
This mod is only for Fabric/Quilt Servers(or Single-Player) and requires Fabric API or Quilted Fabric API
Actively maintained versions: 26.3, 1.21.1
Features
- Sign & Item Frame Passthrough: Access chests, shulker boxes, barrels, etc behind signs by right-clicking the sign
- Interact with Item Frames normally by shift(sneak) + right-click
enableFrameReachExtensionmatches the reach on item frames to the reach on blocks, so passthrough works from as far away as clicking the chest itself. Uses and attacks on any other entity are still rejected past vanilla reach, so it grants no melee advantage. Off by default.- Item Frames Share Blocks - Item Frames can hang in the same space as a block that isn't a full block, such as a trapdoor, instead of popping off after a few seconds. Off by default
- Invisible Item Frames - Use Amethyst Shards to turn item frames invisible
- You can configure it to use Glass Panes instead
- Signs Retain - Breaking a sign will retain that sign's text, color and glowing. Put the sign in a crafting window to reset it
- Sign Copy - Right-clicking a sign with a sign(or stack of signs)w in your hand will copy the text to the held signs
- Tooltip text for Sign Copy and Retain is generated server-side, no client-side mod required

- Stop Sign editor from opening when placing new signs. Off by default
- All features are configurable in
config/improvedsigns.json5
Shout-outs
- Pillowsledder for creating the excellent icons!
- Original Sign Retain functionality merged from umollu's Sign Retain
- Girafi for the idea for Passthrough Signs. Find their original mod for Forge here
- MeeniMc for contributing several version updates
- Jarva for many contributions to the mod
- Everyone else that has contributed
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 29 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Improved Signs on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Fabric, Quilt
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.7.1, released 2026-09-28
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.21.1 to 26.3 (3 versions) | 26.3 |
From 5 recorded builds of Improved Signs.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.1 | 2026-09-28 | 26.3 | Fabric |
| 1.7.1 | 2026-08-20 | 1.21.1 | Fabric |
| 1.7.1 | 2026-08-20 | 26.2 | Fabric |
| 1.7.0 | 2026-08-01 | 26.2 | Fabric |
| 1.6.0 | 2026-06-21 | 26.2 | Fabric |
Run Improved Signs on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Improved Signs as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 28 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorCraftyCorvid, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree











