Hwyala
Modby Yzjdriel
Hwyala (Here's What You're Actually Looking At) is a UI improvement mod aimed at providing block information directly in-game. It is also a fork of HWYLA.
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Last Updated
Sep 19, 2026
Description
I only made this because I was tired of rolling bad RNG for the random chance for HWYLA to crash your pack on startup while testing my modpack.
HWYALA (pronounced "Hwhy-a-la", a la "Coo-Hwhip") - a fork of HWYLA by TehNut, which is itself a fork of WAILA by ProfMobius.
What does this fork do?
There's a bug in HWYLA that will occasionally cause a crash on launch due to a violation of the transitive property (a>b,b>c => a>c) that is enforced by the general Java contract for comparison methods. This fork fixes that bug by adding 4 lines of code.
Notable Lesser-Known Features
- If JEI/HEI is installed, you can use Numpad 3 and Numpad 4 to look up the recipe of blocks in the world.
- You can change the colors and text formatting of the tooltip by navigating to the in-game config, opening the "Waila" options screen, and selecting "Format content...".
- If you are having issues with tooltip handlers added by mods, you can run "/dumphandlers" which will produce a text file with all registered handlers and what types they are registered to.
- The Narrator can be toggled for the tooltip. This will use the system's text-to-speech library to tell you what you're looking at.
- If you think having the item being displayed in the tooltip is redundant, you can disable that.
I have no plans of actively maintaining this fork as the mod is on the whole hilariously stable, but feel free to PR with any fixes you come up with and I might merge if they don't make anything explode.
Any and all plugins/addons/compatibilities/what-have-you created with the original mod are 100% compatible with this fork.
This fork is permitted under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Usage of this mod is allowed for all packs.
I have no interest in any other version of Minecraft and will not be forking any other versions of HWYLA.
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