SparrowPortray/horizon-free-capes

What it does

Drip is a companion app plus native mod for the Rust-based Horizon Minecraft client. It gives every player free cosmetics: 24 capes, 8 wings, 12 hats, 6 pets and 8 emotes, all original pixel art. You can also upload your own cape from a PNG, JPG or GIF (up to 512 KB, animated GIFs up to 32 frames), and create a squad cape with a shared code so friends wear the same design.

The mod draws cosmetics on your own screen only. Players without Drip see your normal skin, and the Minecraft server never receives cosmetic data, so the feature works on any Horizon 26.3 server. Emotes are the one social feature: holding B opens a wheel, and players near you who also run Drip see the emote, routed through the Drip server.

Quick start

1. Download Drip-1.1.0-portable-x64.exe from the latest release. It is a single portable file for Windows 10 and 11, with no installer and no admin rights.
2. Launch it. The first start may trigger a SmartScreen warning because the build isn't code-signed; choose More info, then Run anyway.
3. Drip copies its mod into horizon-native-mods/ in your game folder (the one containing options.txt). Horizon's launcher builds the game with the mod; the first build can take 20–30 minutes, later builds are faster.
4. In the wardrobe, point at a card to preview it on the model, then press Wear it. The cape appears to other Drip players on any server.

To join a squad, enter the squad code a friend shares (for example WOLF-7Q2K). To use a custom cape, drop an image or GIF into the app and drag the crop area before wearing it.

Build from source

Building requires Rust 1.85 or newer and the Tauri prerequisites for your system. From a clone of the repository:

cd drip
cargo test --workspace
cargo tauri build

The workspace splits into crates/drip-core (sign-in hash, squad codes, cape fitting, upload limits, catalog), app/ (desktop window), mod/ (the Horizon mod), server/ (Cloudflare Worker backend) and catalog/ (cosmetic definitions and cape textures).

Constraints

• Platform: the prebuilt binary targets Windows 10 and 11 only; other systems require building from source.
• Horizon version: works on Horizon 26.3 servers; the mod must be a native .hnmod, since content mods (.hmod) cannot draw new content.
• Trust prompt: native mods are real unsandboxed code, so Horizon asks for confirmation before running them.
• Visibility: cosmetics and emote routing only work between players who have Drip installed; nothing is sent to the Minecraft server. Some servers forbid client mods of any kind, so check server rules.
• Custom cape moderation: any player can hide another player's custom cape locally, and three reports from different players hide it globally until a volunteer reviews it.
• Identity: no account or password is stored; the mod authenticates via Mojang's session server, and Drip stores your player ID and name. Skins are fetched from Mojang's public profile API.
• Server dependency: if the Drip server is down, capes still render from cache but emotes don't reach other players. The backend runs on Cloudflare free plans, and mirrors can be self-hosted.
• License: MIT licensed; bundled Inter and Geist Mono fonts are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 license.

HotRepo's take

The project appeared on HotRepo's new-project list for 1 November 2026, gaining its first 121 stars and 3 forks in a window of roughly 11 hours from its 31 October creation. That is a fast start for a companion app tied to a specific client, and it fits a pattern where cosmetic add-ons for niche Minecraft clients attract attention quickly. No GitHub daily all-language rank has been recorded for it, and a single snapshot can't show whether the pace holds. The design choices worth watching are the zero-cost server footprint (Cloudflare free tiers plus sharable mirrors) and the client-side-only rendering, which keeps the tool usable on public servers without server-side support.