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Better Player Locator Bar

Better Player Locator Bar

A Minecraft Fabric mod that adds an enhanced player locator bar. An improvement over Mojang's existing player indicator system.

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Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21–1.21.3

Platforms

Supported environments

Client-side
Client and server

Links

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Creators

Bichal
BichalOwner

Details

Published 8 months ago
Updated last month

Better Player Locator Bar

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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: rounded or squared
  • 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 (F8 in game or use ModMenu), 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
HUD
A preview of a player on the HUD
OnePlayerBarPreview
A preview of two players on the HUD
TwoPlayerBarPreview
This would be a preview of the settings screen so you can customize it as much as you want
ConfigScreenPreview
Now you can customize your friends icons
PlayerCustomPreview

Dependencies

  • Fabric API
  • ModMenu (recommended but opcional)

Installation

  1. Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API
  2. Place the .jar mod file into your mods/ folder
  3. 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)