TruHearts

The vanilla heart bar lies a little. It rounds your health to the nearest half-heart pip, so the actual float Minecraft uses internally is hidden — that pip showing "9½ hearts" might really mean 19.00, 19.45, or 18.91, and you'd never know.

TruHearts prints the real number, in red, right above your heart bar.

♥ 18.5 / 20

That's it. One small overlay, one line of text. Half-second to learn, instant to read at a glance.

What you actually see

• Your current HP as a float, with up to two decimals. Whole values trim cleanly: 20, not 20.00. Single-decimal values trim the trailing zero: 18.5, not 18.50. Two-decimal precision when the value warrants it: 12.34.
• Absorption appears inline in gold when active — ♥ 18.5 / 20 + 8 after an enchanted golden apple, or whatever you've topped up with. Disappears when your absorption runs out.
• The overlay sits in the right place at all times. Wearing armor? It shifts up a row to clear the armor icons. Got absorption hearts? Another row up. Both? Both rows. No collision with the vanilla HUD, ever.
• Toggle it on or off in-game. A keybind under Controls → TruHearts → Toggle HP overlay hides the readout when you want the vanilla view back — for a screenshot, for a purist run, or just because. Unbound by default; assign it to whatever key you like. Preference sticks between sessions.
• Works on Minecraft 26.1 and 26.2. One download covers both minor lines. A 26.1 install and a 26.2 install run the same jar.

Why you might want this

• You can see when small damage actually hit you. Fire ticks, magic damage, environmental wear — the heart pips snap to half-hearts and lose the in-between numbers. TruHearts shows you the exact 0.42 your shield just absorbed.
• You can see regen working in real time. Watch HP tick up by the actual 0.5 or 1.0 increments instead of waiting for a pip to flip.
• PVP / hardcore players know what's about to kill them. "One more hit" and "one more half-pip" aren't the same thing.

What this mod does not do

• Doesn't change gameplay. No new mechanics, no balance changes.
• Doesn't show other entities' HP yet (planned for a future version).
• Doesn't show a damage-dealt number on attack yet (planned for a future version).
• Doesn't show food saturation or exhaustion (intentionally cut — those values aren't reliably available client-side on multiplayer servers, and we'd rather ship nothing than something wrong).