Classic Bar Unofficial
by XingLuo
Classic Bar Unofficial replaces the default icon rows of health, armor, air and food with continuous progress bars on the in-game HUD.
What it does
Classic Bar Unofficial is a community-maintained fork of Classic Bar, and the NeoForge 1.21.1 port started from Tfarcenim's Classic Bar. Health, armor, air bubbles and food drumsticks become horizontal bars, so a player reads the state of each at a glance. The health bar scales with the maximum health a player has, instead of being fixed at 20 points, and poison, wither and freezing icons stack beside it. Hunger, nourishment and satiation icons are arranged in the food bar without overlapping.
The mod also includes integrations for extra mods: a thirst overlay, a blood bar for vampire-related content and the hunger bar from Forbidden Curse, which are added through an extended mod support set. Bars can be placed on the left or right side of the screen, hidden, recolored, shown with numbers in several display modes, or given icon toggles and overlay effects through an in-game configuration screen. The mod runs in a client-side only environment, so a server does not need it and players join without it. Files are published for NeoForge, for 1.21.1 and 26.1.2, and the code is released under a custom license that is not open source.
Key features
Progress bars for vitals
Health, armor, air and food are drawn as continuous bars instead of rows of icons.
Dynamic health scaling
The health bar grows and shrinks with the player's maximum health rather than a fixed 20 points.
Food preview
Holding an edible item shows how much hunger and saturation it would restore, in an overlay similar to AppleSkin.
Configurable display
Bar positions, recoloring, number formats and icon visibility can all be changed in the in-game menu.
Bitmap number fonts
Numeric values can use a 3x5 or tiny bitmap font for a compact, retro-looking display.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Reading status quickly
Continuous bars let a player check several vitals in one glance, without counting icon rows during combat.
Playing with other mods
Extended support adds bars for thirst, blood and hunger from other mods, so their status sits in the same HUD.
Who it’s for: Players who prefer a compact, bar-based HUD, and players of modpacks that include the thirst, vampire-related or hunger mods covered by the extended support.
Questions
Does Classic Bar Unofficial need to be installed on the server?
Which versions does Classic Bar Unofficial support?
Can the bars be moved or hidden?
In the catalog
Classic Bar Unofficial is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,201 Decoration mods for NeoForge. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
A NeoForge 1.21.1 community port of Tfarcenim's Classic Bar. Clean, readable progress bars replace Minecraft's default icon HUD — hearts, armor, food, air, and more. Classic Bar replaces the traditional icon rows on your HUD — hearts, armor pieces, food drumsticks, air bubbles, and other status symbols — with…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/classic-bar-unofficial
- Owner
- XingLuo
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
