HUD Better Widgets v3.2.1

Hud_bw HUD BW puts the numbers you actually care about on your screen, lets you drag them wherever you want, and gets out of your way otherwise. No bloat, no forced aesthetic, no fighting with a config file — just click, drag, done.

Version 3.2 is the biggest update yet: split armor layouts, per-widget appearance control, saveable profiles, a real live preview while dragging, and a redesigned editor that actually respects your resolution.

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✨ Features

In-Game Editor — press K, drag stuff, done
Side-Panel Widget List — collapsible now, toggle any widget on/off without hunting for its hitbox
Hover-Focus — hover a widget in the list and every other widget fades out so you always know exactly what you're looking at
True Drag Preview — while you're repositioning a widget, the whole editor UI fades away so you see the actual game underneath, not a mockup
Named Profiles — save your whole layout (positions, visibility, modes, per-widget appearance) under a name and swap between setups with one click
Per-Widget Appearance — every widget can have its own background level and its own render scale, independent of the global settings
Text-Hugging, Fully Dynamic Backgrounds — the readability backdrop always matches the exact text/icons drawn, never a fixed box that's too big or clips something
Resolution-Safe — widgets are continuously kept inside the visible screen area, so shrinking your window or switching monitors can never strand one off-screen again
Grid Snap — clean pixel-perfect alignment, hold Shift to disable and move freely
Global HUD Scale — 0.75x to 1.5x for whatever monitor/eyesight combo you're rocking
Zero-Cost Disabled Widgets — turned off means turned off, no background ticking
Built-in Calculator — /hbw calc <expression>, now with trig and exponents
Localized — English, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Spanish and Hindi, editor included

🎮 Editor Controls

Open the editor with K (rebindable in controls):

Action Result Left Click (LMB) Drag the widget around Right Click (RMB) Open that widget's settings (background, size, mode, and any widget-specific options) Middle Click (MMB) Show / hide that widget Scroll Wheel Cycle its display mode Side Panel Click any row to toggle visibility instantly, or collapse the panel entirely from the tab on its edge Top Bar Hide All / Grid Snap / Reset (with a confirmation) / Profiles / Durability Warning toggle / Show-Hidden-Widgets toggle

Prefer the mouse wheel over precision clicking? Every widget's settings popup also has its own Visible toggle, so you never have to rely on the scroll wheel or middle click alone.

📊 Widgets & Modes

Scroll over a widget in the editor to cycle its mode. Right-click it for everything else.

🛡️ Armor — now in four flavors

Armor (Classic) — the original all-in-one column (helmet → boots → main hand). Settings let you hide the hand item entirely and choose which side the durability text sits on.
Armor (Top) — just helmet + chestplate, with an optional hand item (main / off / both) placed above or below.
Armor (Bottom) — just leggings + boots, same hand-item options as above.
Armor (Hotbar Style) — armor pieces drawn as a row of fake hotbar slots next to your real one. Choose between bordered "slot" style or plain icons, show durability as a percent or a raw number above each slot, and add either or both hands as extra slots.

All four share the same durability display modes (current/max, current only, percentage) and can be freely combined — split your armor into Top + Bottom, or run Classic alongside the Hotbar style, whatever fits your HUD.

📍 Coordinates (XYZ)

Mode 1: Colored X/Y/Z
Mode 2: Labeled (X: 100 Y: 64 Z: -500)
Mode 3: Nether Converter — Overworld coords + their Nether equivalent, side by side

🧪 Potion Effects — now with levels

Mode 1: Icon, full name + effect level (II, III...), timer underneath
Mode 2: Compact — icon + timer only
Infinite effects show ∞ instead of a countdown
Settings let you put the timer/name text on either side of the icon, and optionally hide vanilla's own top-right potion icons so you're not seeing them twice

⚡ FPS & CPS

FPS: plain number / labeled / full readout — current FPS, rolling average, and a proper 0.1% low (the average of your worst 0.1% of frames — the number that actually tells you when you're stuttering)
CPS: total clicks, or split left/right

❤️🍗 HP / Food / Saturation

Now with a digits-only mode for each — just the number, no label, if that's more your style.

⏰ Clock

Mode 1: Your system clock
Mode 2: In-game world time

🧭 Compass

Mode 1: Cardinal letter (N/S/E/W)
Mode 2: Exact bearing in degrees

🌍 Biome

Shows the name of the biome under your feet.

💡 Light Level

The actual, time-of-day-adjusted light value — the same number the game checks before deciding a mob can spawn where you're standing. Green = safe, yellow = risky, red = start building walls.

📶 Ping

Server latency, color-coded by how bad it is.

🏃 Speed

Live blocks/second, updates smoothly while moving.

🛡️ Armor Points + Toughness

The exact numbers behind your armor icons, including toughness — useful when comparing gear that looks identical on the bar.

⏱️ Session Timer

How long you've been playing since you joined.

🎒 Also Included

Inventory Space — free slots left in your main inventory
Offhand Counter — total count of that item across your whole inventory (great for totems, rockets, ender pearls)
Low-Durability Warning — an action-bar warning (with optional sound) when your gear is about to break, on a threshold you set. Toggle it on/off right from the editor's top bar.

💾 Profiles

Set your layout up exactly how you like it, save it as a profile from the top bar, and switch between as many setups as you want — PvP layout, building layout, whatever — with one click. Nothing gets overwritten until you tell it to.