Better Player Locator Bar
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A Minecraft Fabric mod that adds an enhanced player locator bar. An improvement over Mojang's existing player indicator system.
Includes a large focus on traversing worlds with enhanced world generation, structures, dungeons, and more for players to find unique loot.
Fabric is a mod loader for versions 1.14+ of Minecraft, particularly popular for client side and optimization mods.
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Better Player Locator Bar is a Fabric mod. It shows players in a HUD bar above the XP bar. You can customize icons, borders, fades, and more.
🎯 Features
- HUD bar with icons representing nearby players and death markers
- Customizable icon style:
default,minimal,mojang,bowtie (shift + click) - Icon border styles:
roundedorsquared - Option to show player names and heads
- Vertical arrows when height difference is significant by player camera or position
- Distance-based fading (configurable start, end, alpha min/max)
- Smooth interpolation using easing
- Asset detection: scans included textures in
sprites/hud/ - Client/server sync via handshake and position payloads; fallback to local mode
- Config UI (
F8in game or useModMenu), preview, per-player overrides (color, icon, border…) - Death markers persistence and cleanup
📸 Gallery
A preview of how you would see other players with the mod
A preview of a player on the HUD
A preview of two players on the HUD
This would be a preview of the settings screen so you can customize it as much as you want
Now you can customize your friends icons
Dependencies
- Fabric API
- ModMenu
(recommended but opcional)
Installation
- Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API
- Place the
.jarmod file into yourmods/folder - Run Minecraft
Known Issues & Limitations
- Only works in Fabric, no Forge/NeoForge/… support
(yet? 🥀) - It can become inaccurate
- There may be rendering issues in other parts of the HUD
- You will most likely encounter problems with the order of the icons and the experience bar
- It is not possible to change the color of your dot/head
(yet...)
License
The contents of this repository and mod, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (Canonical URL)
Better Player Locator Bar is a Fabric mod. It shows players in a HUD bar above the XP bar. You can customize icons, borders, fades, and more.
🎯 Features
- HUD bar with icons representing nearby players and death markers
- Customizable icon style:
default,minimal,mojang,bowtie (shift + click) - Icon border styles:
roundedorsquared - Option to show player names and heads
- Vertical arrows when height difference is significant by player camera or position
- Distance-based fading (configurable start, end, alpha min/max)
- Smooth interpolation using easing
- Asset detection: scans included textures in
sprites/hud/ - Client/server sync via handshake and position payloads; fallback to local mode
- Config UI (
F8in game or useModMenu), preview, per-player overrides (color, icon, border...) - Death markers persistence and cleanup
📸 Gallery
A preview of how you would see other players with the mod
A preview of a player on the HUD
A preview of two players on the HUD
This would be a preview of the settings screen so you can customize it as much as you want
Now you can customize your friends icons
Dependencies
- Fabric API
- ModMenu
(recommended but opcional)
Installation
- Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API
- Place the
.jarmod file into yourmods/folder - Run Minecraft
Known Issues & Limitations
- Only works in Fabric, no Forge/NeoForge/... support
(yet? 🥀) - It can become inaccurate
- There may be rendering issues in other parts of the HUD
- You will most likely encounter problems with the order of the icons and the experience bar
- It is not possible to change the color of your dot/head
(yet...)
License
The contents of this repository and mod, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (Canonical URL)
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