Notification Control
Few things interrupt a perfectly good mining session like a wall of pop-up toasts crowding your screen. Advancement banners, recipe unlocks, tutorial prompts, and modded alerts all stack up in the corner whether you want them there or not. Notification Control is a small but genuinely useful add-on that hands that control back to you, letting you decide what shows up, where it appears, and how visible it is.
What Notification Control Does
This mod is a fixed fork of Toast Control for Minecraft 1.16.5, rebuilt to solve a bug the original author declined to patch. The core idea stays the same: every toast notification in the game becomes configurable. You can make notifications transparent or translucent, move them to a different part of the screen, or hide entire categories you simply do not care about.
The categories you can toggle include:
- Recipe unlock notifications
- Advancement pop-ups
- Tutorial hints and prompts
- Modded notifications from other add-ons
If you have ever installed a large modpack and watched a dozen unrelated toasts fire off the moment you load a world, you already understand why this matters. Notification Control for Minecraft turns that chaos into a quiet, readable interface.
The Bug That Started It All
The original Toast Control for 1.16.5 had a specific flaw. When notifications were configured to drop down from the left side of the screen, they refused to cooperate and appeared on the right instead. The author confirmed the bug would not be fixed for that version, though it was addressed later in 1.18. This fork resolves the problem directly: notifications now correctly descend from the top of the screen when the left-side setting is active, matching the configuration exactly as intended.
That fix alone makes this fork worth using for anyone still running a 1.16.5 world, especially since plenty of modpacks remain locked to that version.
Supported Versions and Loaders
Notification Control is built for Minecraft 1.16.5 and runs on the Forge mod loader, matching the version it was forked from. Because it is a fork rather than a rewrite, it keeps full compatibility with the original Toast Control configuration format, so existing settings carry over without extra work. If you are running a newer version, the upstream project already handles the fix, but for 1.16.5 players this is the version you want.
How to Install Notification Control
Getting the mod running takes only a few minutes. Here is the standard process:
- Confirm you are running Minecraft 1.16.5 with a compatible Forge installation.
- Place the Notification Control jar file into your mods folder.
- Launch the game once so the configuration file generates.
- Open the config and adjust toast position, transparency, and category visibility.
- Restart the game to apply your changes.
The configuration options follow the original Toast Control documentation, so if you have used that mod before, the layout will feel familiar. Transparency settings are especially handy for players who want notifications visible but not distracting during combat or building.
If you prefer a simpler route, the foxygame.net launcher bundles Notification Control directly in its add-on catalog, so you can add it to a 1.16.5 profile with a single click and skip the manual file shuffling entirely.
Why It Is Worth Adding
Interface clutter is one of those problems that seems minor until you fix it and realize how much smoother the game feels. Notification Control does not add new content or change gameplay balance. It simply gives you authority over your own screen. Hide recipe spam, keep advancement banners, fade everything to a ghostly translucency, or reposition toasts to a corner that does not block your hotbar.
For players on 1.16.5 who were stuck with the broken left-side positioning, this fork is the definitive answer. Download Notification Control, drop it in your mods folder, and enjoy a HUD that finally behaves the way you configured it.
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