🐎 SaddleSense - Mount HUD

SaddleSense - Mount HUD improves Minecraft's mounted interface without replacing its familiar visual style. While you ride, player health, hunger, armor, XP, and mount health remain readable instead of competing for the same limited HUD space.

The mod is lightweight, client-side, and visual only. It does not change mount statistics, movement, jumping, inventories, riding rules, combat, or server gameplay.

✨ Features

• Keeps player health, hunger, armor, and the numeric XP level visible while mounted
• Displays eligible mount health separately with Minecraft's native heart sprites
• Shows the mount jump meter only while jump charging or a real cooldown needs feedback
• Restores the XP bar as soon as jump feedback is no longer needed
• Is designed for eligible vanilla living mounts available in each game version
• Can include compatible modded living mounts through their ordinary health data
• Offers an optional compact proportional heart row for high-health mounts
• Uses Minecraft's native HUD textures, colors, spacing conventions, and scaling pipeline
• Adds no custom gameplay, packets, or required libraries
• Provides seven lightweight client configuration options

🐴 Mount compatibility

The eligibility logic targets vanilla horses, donkeys, mules, saddled pigs, striders, and camels where those entities exist in the selected Minecraft version. Compatible modded mounts are designed to participate when the player's direct vehicle is a living entity and provides normal health data. On modern targets, the direct vehicle must also opt into vanilla vehicle-health display through showVehicleHealth(). Non-living vehicles and proxy passenger chains are left untouched.

✅ Supported versions

Use the JAR whose Minecraft version and mod loader exactly match your profile. Forge and NeoForge files are separate and are not interchangeable.

💻 Client and server requirements

• Client: required
• Dedicated server: not required
• Dependencies: none
• Networking: none

No server installation is required by design. A real client-only multiplayer connection remains part of the Beta validation matrix.

📦 Installation

1. Install the matching Forge or NeoForge version.
2. Download the SaddleSense - Mount HUD JAR that exactly matches your Minecraft version and loader.
3. Place the JAR in the client profile's mods folder.
4. Start Minecraft.
5. Optionally edit config/vanillamounthud-client.toml after the first launch.

Do not install more than one SaddleSense - Mount HUD JAR in the same profile.

⚙️ Configuration

🔗 Compatibility notes

• HUD overhauls or coremods that rewrite the same vanilla HUD methods may need a compatibility patch.
• Entity availability follows the selected Minecraft version; entities are not backported.
• Forge 1.16.5 has no modern vehicle-jump cooldown getter, so XP returns as soon as the held jump input ends.