Changelog

v1.0.0-rc.2

Added

• Automatic per-player HUD detection with no setup commands required.
• Action-bar-only display that appears when looking at a supported passive animal within 8 blocks.
• Real-time HUD updates that clear immediately when the player looks away, the animal leaves range, the animal dies, or another animal becomes the active target.
• Multiplayer-safe targeting so each player gets their own independent HUD.
• Separate display functions for each supported animal to keep the datapack modular and easier to extend.
• Debug helper functions for confirming the pack is loaded and testing the nearest supported target.

Detection and Performance

• Limited entity checks to the area immediately around each player instead of scanning every loaded entity.
• Added nearby-animal short-circuit checks so the raycast path only runs when a supported animal is within range.
• Kept the system focused on supported passive animals and excluded unrelated entities from the main display flow.
• Preserved a one-target-at-a-time HUD model so only the current primary target is rendered.

Universal HUD Information

• Displays animal name.
• Displays current and maximum health.
• Displays adult or baby state.
• Uses health color states for safer at-a-glance reading.

Animal-Specific Checklist Coverage

• Sheep: wool color and sheared state.
• Pig: saddle state.
• Chicken: age state.
• Cow: health and age.
• Horse: saddle, armor, tame state, and owner when vanilla can resolve it.
• Donkey and Mule: saddle, chest, tame state, and owner support through the shared horse logic.
• Camel: saddle and sitting or standing state.
• Llama and Trader Llama: carpet, chest, and trader detection.
• Goat: left and right horn presence.
• Rabbit: variant.
• Wolf: tame state, owner, sitting or standing, collar color, and angry or calm state.
• Cat: tame state, owner, sitting or standing, and variant.
• Fox: variant and sleeping state.
• Bee: nectar, sting, and angry or calm state.
• Mooshroom: variant.
• Panda: personality.
• Frog: variant.
• Axolotl: variant.
• Turtle: age state.
• Sniffer: searching, digging, or resting activity.
• Strider: saddle and cold or warm state.

Release and Packaging

• Packaged the datapack as a versioned release: Animal HUD v1.0.0-rc.2 and Animal HUD v1.0.0-rc.2.zip.
• Updated pack.mcmeta so the in-game description includes the rc.2 version tag.
• Included a versioned README and this changelog for easier release tracking.
• Regenerated and validated the release artifact for Minecraft Java 1.21 through 1.21.11.