InteractAPI

InteractAPI

A lightweight library for customizable world-space interaction prompts and quick time events.

InteractAPI provides a display layer for other mods to render floating interaction icons, key prompts, and interactive QTE sequences directly in the world.

Features

• World-space interaction prompts attached to blocks, entities, or arbitrary positions
• Customizable textures, scale, color, opacity, and render distance
• Camera-facing billboards or fixed world orientations
• Automatic positioning for moving entities and block entities
• Smooth distance fading and optional full-bright rendering
• Optional see-through-wall rendering
• Custom text labels and progress indicators
• Dynamic keybind icons that update when players rebind their controls
• Controller button icons and alternate input layouts
• Built-in prompt animations and press feedback
• Automatic prompt cleanup when targets become invalid or worlds unload

Quick Time Events

InteractAPI also includes a built-in QTE system for creating interactive sequences and button-mashing challenges.

• Mash Events – Repeatedly press a key to fill a progress meter before time runs out.
• Sequence Events – Press a series of displayed keys before their timers expire.
• Arcade Style – Bright effects, animations, sound effects, and rewarding feedback.
• Horror Style – Darkened visuals, heartbeat effects, screen distortion, and increasingly intense feedback.
• Custom Results – Receive success, failure, cancellation, score, hit counts, and timing information.

Accessibility

Players can customize QTE difficulty through client settings:

• Hold instead of repeatedly mashing a key
• Increase event duration with a time multiplier
• Automatically complete QTEs

Designed for Developers

InteractAPI is a rendering and presentation library. It intentionally does not decide when an interaction should happen.

For ordinary prompts, InteractAPI:

• Does not read key presses
• Does not perform raycasts
• Does not activate blocks or entities
• Does not send network packets
• Does not determine whether a target is interactable

Your mod handles all interaction logic and tells InteractAPI when and where to display a prompt.

The API supports persistent and temporary prompts, reusable prompt IDs, dynamic anchors, and thread-safe registration.

QTEs are a separate feature that handle their own input during an active event and return the result to your mod.

Compatibility

Installation for Developers

Add InteractAPI as a dependency in your project.

dependencies {
    implementation fg.deobf("com.raiiiden.interactapi:interactapi:1.20.1-1.0.0")
}

Declare the dependency in your mods.toml:

[[dependencies.yourmodid]]
    modId="interactapi"
    mandatory=true
    versionRange="[1.0.0,)"
    ordering="AFTER"
    side="BOTH"

Credits and Support

Developed by Zarra Studios.

For support, bug reports, or questions about integrating InteractAPI into your mod, join the Discord.