Classic Bar Unofficial

A NeoForge 1.21.1 community port of Tfarcenim's Classic Bar. Clean, readable progress bars replace Minecraft's default icon HUD — hearts, armor, food, air, and more.

What It Does

Classic Bar replaces the traditional icon rows on your HUD — hearts, armor pieces, food drumsticks, air bubbles, and other status symbols — with continuous progress bars. The health bar scales dynamically with your maximum health instead of locking at 20 points, giving you a cleaner, more information-dense HUD at a single glance.

Originally created by Tfarcenim for Minecraft Forge, this community fork updates the mod to NeoForge 1.21.1, adds new mod integrations, and provides ongoing maintenance.

Why Download

• Dynamic health scaling — the health bar adjusts to your actual max HP, not a fixed 20
• Deep customization — every bar can be positioned left, right, or hidden; colors, number display modes, icon toggles, and overlay effects are all configurable through an in-game GUI
• Extended mod support — five additional mods now have dedicated bar integrations (see below)
• Better readability — continuous bars are easier to parse at a glance than scattered icon rows
• Cleaner look — reduces visual clutter while keeping all information accessible

Features

Native Status Bars (8)

• Health — Scales dynamically with max health; poison/wither/frozen overlay effects
• Armor — Configurable number of armor layers
• Food — Hunger icon variant; food preview when holding edible items
• Saturation — Sub-bar below the food bar
• Air — Underwater breath indicator with flashing warning
• Armor Toughness — Secondary damage reduction stat
• Mount Health — Health of horses, striders, llamas, and other mounts
• Absorption — Absorption hearts shown as a progress bar

Mod Compatibility

• Thirst Was Taken — thirst bar + hydration sub-bar + drink preview
• Vampirism — blood level bar (replaces the food bar when in vampire form)
• Farmer's Delight — golden nourishment overlay on the food bar
• Kaleidoscope Cookery — red satiation-compensation overlay on the food bar
• Enigmatic Legacy+ — Forbidden Curse hunger overlay (mutually exclusive with blood/food)

Multi-Effect Icon Stacking

Poison, Wither, and Freezing icons automatically stack side-by-side on the health bar. Similarly, Hunger, Nourishment, and Satiation-Compensation icons arrange themselves on the food bar — no overlapping mess.

Food & Drink Preview

Hold a food item in your hand to see exactly how much hunger and saturation it will restore, shown as a preview overlay on the bars (similar to AppleSkin).

Custom Pixel Number Fonts

Choose between 3x5 and 3x5_tiny bitmap fonts for a compact, retro-looking numeric display on the HUD.

Full Chinese Translation

Complete zh_CN localization of the entire UI and configuration menu.

Debug Toggles (8)

Developer-only switches for testing bar behavior and HUD rendering — available only in a development environment.

Code Quality Improvements

Compared to the original Forge version, this fork brings:

• Centralized registration system (ModOverlays, ModIcons, ModConfigs)
• Spotless automated code formatting
• Gradle version catalog for unified dependency management
• Access Transformer infrastructure
• Data generation framework

Configuration Highlights

• Every status bar: LEFT / RIGHT / HIDDEN
• Custom color picker for each bar
• Number display modes: Current value only / Current + Max / Percentage
• Per-bar icon toggle
• Per-bar overlay effect toggle
• Full configuration GUI — no manual file editing required

Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.21.1
• NeoForge: 21.1.228+
• Side: Client-side only (no server installation needed)

Credits

• Original author: Tfarcenim
• Original project: Classic Bar (Forge)

License

GPL-3.0-only — This fork is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Includes 3x5 bitmap fonts from Reliable-Recount by catboybinary, also GPL-3.0.