Durability Alerts
by 0800rojas
Durability Alerts warns the player on screen and with sound as equipment nears its end, so a worn-out pickaxe or sword does not catch anyone off guard in combat or mining.
What it does
Durability Alerts is a Fabric mod that watches six equipment slots: the main hand, the offhand and four armor pieces. When an item crosses one of its configurable thresholds, the mod shows a warning with its own message and sound. A compact heads-up display in a corner lists the items running low, worst first, with a bar that shifts from green to amber to red as the item wears down. Only items below the highest threshold appear there, so a freshly crafted wooden shovel stays out of view until it is half worn.
The mod ships with three alerts, and a menu lets the player change them, set exact hit counts, and pick a Minecraft sound from a list with instant preview. A large on-screen alert can be sized, placed and timed, with an optional dark backdrop. The corner display can sit in any of four corners or be turned off. A test alert button in the settings shows how each alert looks without breaking a tool. The mod can also switch to a healthier tool before the current one snaps.
Durability Alerts is a client-side only mod: it runs entirely on the client, works on a server running vanilla, and needs nothing installed on the server side. Builds are published for Fabric only, for the game versions 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11 and 26.1, with 1.5.3 for 1.21.11 as the latest file. Builds for 1.21.9 and later are separate because the key binding API changed in that release. The code is under the MIT License, and the project is not open source.
Key features
Threshold warnings
Alerts fire when an item crosses a set durability threshold, each with its own message and sound.
Corner HUD with durability bars
A compact display lists items running low, with bars that shift from green to amber to red.
Large on-screen alert
A central alert has configurable size, position, duration and an optional dark backdrop.
Auto-switch to a healthier tool
The mod can swap to a fresh tool before the current one breaks, mid-fight or mid-mining.
Customizable sounds and text
Alert sounds are picked from a list with instant preview, and English and Spanish text is included.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Durability Ping is also a client-side only Fabric mod, released under the MIT License and open source, with files for 1.21 – 26.2. Durability warning mod is client-side only, but its license is All rights reserved and its files cover 1.20 – 26.1.2. Armour Durablity Hud is client-side only and under the MIT License, but is not open source and targets 1.21 – 26.3. Durability Alerts is a Fabric-only mod with its own alert set and four-corner HUD, so it differs from these in loader and version range rather than in environment.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durability Alerts | Fabric | 1.21.6 – 26.1 | Client-side only | 2026-09-09 |
| Durability Ping | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-06-20 |
| Durability warning mod | Fabric | 1.20 – 26.1.2 | Client-side only | 2026-04-21 |
| Armour Durablity Hud | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-23 |
Questions
Does Durability Alerts need to be installed on the server?
Which loader and game versions does Durability Alerts support?
Can the alerts be moved or turned off?
In the catalog
Durability Alerts is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 8,894 Equipment mods for Fabric. 11,959 mods support Minecraft 26.1.
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What the author says
Durability Alerts is a lightweight client-side mod that warns you before a tool, weapon or armor piece breaks — with your own message, your own sound, and a compact HUD that tells you how you are doing at a glance. Built for Survival, Hardcore and PvP players who would rather not find out their pickaxe is gone by the…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/durability-alerts-irojas
- Owner
- 0800rojas
- Published
- 2026-03-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-09
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
