Better Health Indicator
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- 👍 0.4% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #233 of 282 decoration mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
# Better Health Indicator ### (https://github.com/WJZ-P/Better-Health-Indicator) !(https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/85a7f998618761fe94f72ef32222a1bdf039ea86.png) Say goodbye to boring health bars! **Better Health Indicator** is a **client-side** Fabric mod that replaces plain mob health display with a beautiful, dynamic, and smoothly animated indicator — both above entities and in a rich on-screen panel. > Client-side only. It does **not** need to be installed on the server, and works on most servers for normal mobs and players. !(https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/add11bc133965badecf3060747fedcc1f99397f3.png) ## ✨ Features ### Over-head health bars - **Vanilla-style heart icons** rendered as crisp billboards above entities. - **Tiered multi-row hearts** for high-HP mobs: the bottom row stays vanilla red (or **hardcore** hearts for powerful mobs on their last bar), while upper rows are runtime-tinted from a grayscale template with **fully configurable per-tier colors**. - **Dynamic "× N" multiplier** for mobs with many health bars, color-coded by amount; updates live as health changes. - **Damage feedback**: dropping heart particles on hit (intensity scales with damage), heart scatter + tilt, and a white "blink" highlight — all toggleable. - **Low-health tremor**: hearts shake when health drops below a configurable threshold, each heart staggered like vanilla. - **Death shatter**: hearts chain-burst when an entity dies. - **Name & detail**: optional name display with custom scale/bold; health value or multiplier can sit beside the bar or after the name. Optionally **hides the vanilla name tag** to avoid overlap. ### On-screen target panel - A configurable corner panel for the entity you're **looking at / recently attacked**. - Shows a **live 3D model** in a square or round frame, name, health (bar or hearts), and **potion-effect icons**. - **Light / dark themes**, adjustable transparency, and auto-resizing width. ### Display & control - Display modes: **On Screen** or **Looking At**, with attack-tracking (keep showing a mob you just hit). - Distance limit, show-self, show-full-health, and occlude-behind-walls options. - Hide vanilla damage heart particles to avoid visual clutter. ## ⚙️ Configuration Fully configurable in-game via **Mod Menu + Cloth Config** (both optional). Without them, settings still load from `config/better_health_indicator.json`.
# Better Health Indicator
### [Github link](https://github.com/WJZ-P/Better-Health-Indicator) !(https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/85a7f998618761fe94f72ef32222a1bdf039ea86.png) Say goodbye to boring health bars! Better Health Indicator is a client-side Fabric mod that replaces plain mob health display with a beautiful, dynamic, and smoothly animated indicator — both above entities and in a rich on-screen panel.
> Client-side only. It does not need to be installed on the server, and works on most servers for normal mobs and players.
!(https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/add11bc133965badecf3060747fedcc1f99397f3.png)
## ✨ Features
### Over-head health bars - Vanilla-style heart icons rendered as crisp billboards above entities. - Tiered multi-row hearts for high-HP mobs: the bottom row stays vanilla red (or hardcore hearts for powerful mobs on their last bar), while upper rows are runtime-tinted from a grayscale template with fully configurable per-tier colors. - Dynamic "× N" multiplier for mobs with many health bars, color-coded by amount; updates live as health changes. - Damage feedback: dropping heart particles on hit (intensity scales with damage), heart scatter + tilt, and a white "blink" highlight — all toggleable. - Low-health tremor: hearts shake when health drops below a configurable threshold, each heart staggered like vanilla. - Death shatter: hearts chain-burst when an entity dies. - Name & detail: optional name display with custom scale/bold; health value or multiplier can sit beside the bar or after the name. Optionally hides the vanilla name tag to avoid overlap.
### On-screen target panel - A configurable corner panel for the entity you're looking at / recently attacked. - Shows a live 3D model in a square or round frame, name, health (bar or hearts), and potion-effect icons. - Light / dark themes, adjustable transparency, and auto-resizing width.
### Display & control - Display modes: On Screen or Looking At, with attack-tracking (keep showing a mob you just hit). - Distance limit, show-self, show-full-health, and occlude-behind-walls options. - Hide vanilla damage heart particles to avoid visual clutter.
## ⚙️ Configuration Fully configurable in-game via Mod Menu + Cloth Config (both optional). Without them, settings still load from `config/better_health_indicator.json`.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Minecraft Mods
- Author
- WJZ-P
- Version
- 1.0.0+mc1.20.1
- Downloads
- 4,352
- Endorsements
- 19
- Category
- decoration
- Created
- 6/16/2026
- Updated
- 8/16/2026
- Game Versions
- 1.20.1
- Tags
- decoration, optimization, utility
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Which Minecraft Mods versions does Better Health Indicator support?
The author lists 1.20.1. Other versions may work but are untested by the author.
What is the latest version of Better Health Indicator?
Version 1.0.0+mc1.20.1, published 2026-08-16 with 4,352 downloads recorded at the source.
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