Client Ping
by ewpratten
Client Ping lets a player mark a point of interest in the world with a key press, and the marker appears for a short time on screen and on the minimap.
What it does
Pressing the Z key by default places a ping on the block the player is looking at, within 1000 meters, and a ping can be placed once per second. Pings fade after 10 seconds, a duration that can be changed through Mod Menu, and the key binding can be changed in the Minecraft controls menu. Marking is purely client-side, so a ping is shown only to the player who placed it.
Other players on the same server see the ping only when they also have the mod installed. Pings travel through the vanilla server chat as messages in a fixed format, so players without the mod can still read the coordinates from the chat, and copying them from the F3 menu is possible too. On receiving a ping message, the client parses it and injects a temporary waypoint into Xaero's Minimap, which renders the mark according to the existing waypoint settings. When Xaero's World Map is installed, the ping is also shown on that map.
The mod is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only and is published for Quilt. Its builds cover 1.19.4 – 1.20.1, and the latest file is 1.2.0+1.20 for 1.20.1, released on 2023-06-12. Client Ping requires Quilted Fabric API (QFAPI) / Quilt Standard Libraries (QSL), Xaero's Minimap and oωo (owo-lib), and Mod Menu is optional.
Key features
Point-of-interest pings
A ping marks the block under the crosshair within 1000 meters, so a location can be shared in a few keystrokes.
Timed marker display
Each ping stays visible for 10 seconds by default, and the duration is set through Mod Menu.
Chat-based sharing
Pings are sent as vanilla server chat, so coordinates reach players who do not have the mod.
Minimap and world map markers
Received pings become temporary waypoints in Xaero's Minimap and appear on Xaero's World Map when it is installed.
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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
Optional 1
How it compares
Ping Me is server-side only, released under the MIT License and open source, with builds for Fabric and Quilt across 1.18.2 – 1.19.3. MCPings is open source under the MIT License and runs on client and server for 1.20 – 1.20.2 on Fabric and Quilt. Chat Notify is client-side only and open source under the Apache License 2.0, covering Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across 1.19.3 – 26.3.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Client Ping | Quilt | 1.19.4 – 1.20.1 | Client-side only | 2023-06-12 |
| Ping Me | Fabric and Quilt | 1.18.2 – 1.19.3 | Server-side only | 2023-01-16 |
| MCPings | Fabric and Quilt | 1.20 – 1.20.2 | Client and server | 2024-01-04 |
| Chat Notify | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.19.3 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-10-09 |
Questions
Does Client Ping need to be installed on the server?
Do players without the mod see the pings?
What must be installed next to Client Ping?
In the catalog
Client Ping is one of 5,392 Social mods on ModsFinder, and one of 841 Social mods for Quilt. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Client Ping is a client-side Minecraft mod that implements "pinging" (marking an object as a point of interest) on vanilla servers. By default, Client Ping uses the z key to ping the block you are looking at (within 1000m). You can change this key bind in the Minecraft controls menu.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/client-ping
- Owner
- ewpratten
- Published
- 2023-04-26
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-06-12
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15