Source-checkedGameplay & overhauls

Improved Signs

by CraftyCorvid · for Minecraft

Improvements for your signs and frames on your Fabric server. Passthrough signs, retain sign text, copy signs & more!

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Fabric · QuiltLoaders

About Improved Signs

From Modrinth

Improvements for your signs and frames on your Fabric server. Passthrough signs, retain sign text, copy signs & more!

Improved Signs

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
  • enableFrameReachExtension matches 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

Sign Tooltip Example Sign Tooltip Example

  • 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

License: MIT

Highlights

From source data

Game 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

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Fabric1.21.1 to 26.3 (3 versions)26.3

From 5 recorded builds of Improved Signs.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.7.12026-09-2826.3Fabric
1.7.12026-08-201.21.1Fabric
1.7.12026-08-2026.2Fabric
1.7.02026-08-0126.2Fabric
1.6.02026-06-2126.2Fabric

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 catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Gameplay & overhauls

New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth 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

Improved Signs, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Improved Signs?

Modrinth lists Improved Signs as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric and Quilt.

Is it free?

Yes. Improved Signs is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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