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AsteorBar

by afoxxvi

AsteorBar draws player and mob status as slim bars on the HUD, replacing the vanilla hearts and food icons with a compact display.

FabricForgeNeoForgeClient required, server optionalMIT LicenseOpen source1.18.2 – 26.3

What it does

The bars cover health, hunger, mount health and experience, and they can show absorption alongside health and saturation and exhaustion alongside hunger. Bars blink, flash or shake in the same way vanilla hearts do when health regenerates, when the player takes damage, or when health or hunger runs low. Bar colors change under regeneration, poison, wither, starvation and frozen effects.

The players need the mod installed, while a server can run without it and add it for extra features. It is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 24 release versions, 1.18.2 – 26.3, and the code is open source under the MIT License. Required by Clash Royale In Minecraft, which lists it as a dependency. Saturation and exhaustion do not sync to clients in vanilla, so that display needs a Spigot or Paper server plugin released with the mod.

Key features

  1. Vanilla-style blinking

    Bars blink on regeneration and on damage, and flash or shake at low health or hunger, mirroring the vanilla heart icons.

  2. Status effect colors

    Bar colors change under regeneration, poison, wither, starvation and frozen effects, so status is readable at a glance.

  3. Fixed scale for high max health

    Bars are not affected by max health, which keeps them usable in setups where the player has a high maximum.

  4. Combined and extra readouts

    Health and absorption are shown together, and experience value is displayed alongside the other bars.

  5. Mob and mount bars

    An entity bar shows the status of nearby mobs and the health of a mount the player rides.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
26.31.5.31.5.31.5.3
26.21.5.31.5.31.5.3
26.1.21.5.31.5.31.5.3
26.1.11.5.31.5.31.5.3
26.11.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.x11 of 11 versions with builds
1.21.111.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.101.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.91.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.81.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.71.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.61.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.51.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.41.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.31.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.21.11.5.31.5.31.5.3
1.211.4.61.4.61.4.6
1.20.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.19.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Required by 1 mod

Clash Royale In Minecraft1.21

Use cases

Players who want compact status bars

Players who prefer slim bars to the vanilla heart and food rows can replace them with AsteorBar.

Setups with high max health

Because bar length does not depend on max health, modded setups with large health pools keep a readable display.

Who it’s for: Players who want a compact HUD and modpack authors who need a status display that does not change with max health. Server owners who want saturation and exhaustion visible to players can install the matching Spigot or Paper plugin.

How it compares

Full comparison

Halo HUD is client-side only, open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, and published for 1.18.2 – 1.21.4 on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge. Njol's HUD is client-side only, open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, and published only for Fabric, covering 1.18.2 – 1.20.6. Both are alternatives that change the HUD in a different style, with different version ranges.

ModLoadersGame versionsEnvironmentUpdated
AsteorBarFabric, Forge and NeoForge1.18.2 – 26.3Client required, server optional2026-10-05
Halo HUDFabric, Forge and NeoForge1.18.2 – 1.21.4Client-side only2024-11-28
Njol's HUDFabric1.18.2 – 1.20.6Client-side only2024-08-02

Questions

Does AsteorBar need Fabric API or another dependency?

AsteorBar has no required dependencies listed. Its settings can be edited with any in-game configuration editor, and the Fabric version can be configured through its own menu.

Do servers need AsteorBar installed?

Not necessarily. Players must install the mod, while a server can skip it. Saturation and exhaustion sync only with the separate Spigot or Paper plugin.

How can a player turn off the HUD or the entity bars?

Pressing F8 closes the HUD and F10 closes the entity bars. Either feature can also be disabled in the config file.

In the catalog

AsteorBar is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.

Utility mods36,990Fabric modsMods for 26.38,071

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What the author says

A simple mod to display player's status using slim bars and display entity's status using bars. The following features will not take effect on servers because they are not synced in vanilla Minecraft
afoxxvi, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
afoxxvi
Published
2024-02-22
Updated on Modrinth
2026-10-05
Facts verified
2026-10-15

Tags

Utility
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