Beautiful Hitboxes
by Diberv
With Beautiful Hitboxes, players can outline other players and entities in customizable colors, including a smooth rainbow cycle, and apply a highlight to the block under the crosshair.
What it does
Beautiful Hitboxes is a visual Fabric mod for rendering hitboxes with a chosen color, an outline fill and an optional rainbow mode whose outline cycles through hues. A hotkey toggles the highlight mode, and the highlight color is picked by the player for better visibility. The author describes the mod as focused on personalized hitbox rendering, so each player can tailor how the highlights look.
Beyond hitboxes, the mod can highlight matching signs in the world, mark transparent blocks and the block being looked at, and offers a custom aspect ratio option that works together with Sodium. An Auto Sprint option makes movement easier. Fabric API, Cloth Config API and Mod Menu are required, and the mod is compatible with vanilla Minecraft. Previously it conflicted with Sodium, a problem the author says is fixed. Only the client needs it, so servers run without it, and the mod is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
Hitbox outline colors
Player hitboxes can be outlined with a chosen color and filled with an outline fill.
Rainbow highlight mode
A rainbow option cycles the hitbox outline smoothly through colors.
Sign search
Signs in the world whose text matches a search are highlighted.
Block highlights
Transparent blocks and the block the player is looking at can be highlighted.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 3
Use cases
Spotting other players
Players in a crowded area can be given a color that stands out against the world.
Finding signs
A search term can mark every matching sign in view, which helps on large builds.
Who it’s for: Players who want to change how hitboxes and nearby blocks look on their own screen, and who play with Sodium or want a custom aspect ratio.
How it compares
Better Hitboxes is a client-side only Fabric mod for 1.21 – 1.21.8, released under All rights reserved. Only Elytra Hitbox is also client-side only and covers 1.21.1 – 1.21.11, but it is released under CC0 1.0 Universal. Hitbox View Distance is client-side only as well, with files for 1.21.11 – 26.2 under the MIT License. Beautiful Hitboxes covers the 1.21.8 – 1.21.11 range.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Hitboxes | Fabric | 1.21.8 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2026-02-14 |
| Better Hitboxes | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.8 | Client-side only | 2025-09-13 |
| Only Elytra Hitbox | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2025-12-29 |
| Hitbox View Distance | Fabric | 1.21.11 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-08-19 |
Questions
Does Beautiful Hitboxes need Cloth Config API?
Does the server need Beautiful Hitboxes?
Which game versions does Beautiful Hitboxes support?
In the catalog
Beautiful Hitboxes is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,575 Optimization mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Beautiful Hitboxes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beautiful Hitboxes — a Minecraft mod for 1.21.8 and above that focuses on beautiful, highly customizable visuals and personalized hitbox rendering, allowing players to tailor the visual experience to their preferences…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/beautiful-hitboxes
- Owner
- Diberv
- Published
- 2025-11-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-02-14
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15