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Better Player Locator Bar

Mod

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

Type

Mod

Modrinth Downloads

9,852

Modrinth ID

SwzINh6N

Last Updated

Jul 9, 2026

Description

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

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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)

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

1.21 1.21.1 1.21.2 1.21.3

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