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Immersive Merchant Name Outline

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Immersive Merchant Name Outline

By epic_lover

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Draws the trading screen's villager name in black with a white outline so it's readable on any GUI.

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Description

Merchant Name Outline

Makes the villager / wandering trader name in the trading screen readable again.

Vanilla draws that name in dark grey (#404040) at a hard-coded spot at the top of the screen. Resource packs that put a picture there, such as an animated villager face in a custom trading GUI, leave dark text on a dark background that you can barely see. This mod draws the name as black text with a white outline instead, so it stays legible on any background.

Features

  • Black name with a 1px white outline, with or without a trader level (Name - Novice)
  • Works with any resource pack or GUI overhaul, nothing to configure
  • Only the merchant's name changes. The "Inventory" and "Trades" labels are untouched
  • No new items, blocks, config files or network traffic

Requirements

  • Minecraft 1.20.1
  • Forge 47.x
  • Client side only. Do not install it on a dedicated server (installing it there does nothing)

Compatibility

  • Tested with Immersive Interfaces and Minecraft Reimagined.
  • The mod changes one vanilla method, MerchantScreen.renderLabels. If another mod rewrites the same call, this one steps aside instead of crashing and the vanilla name is drawn.
  • When the hook is active, latest.log contains [merchant_name_outline] armed: the first time a trading screen is opened.

Why not just a resource pack?

The name's position and colour are hard-coded in vanilla's trading screen. Resource packs and Polytone's title_y_offset / title_color can't change them, so a code change is needed.

License

All Rights Reserved.