Health Bar Plus
With Health Bar Plus, a player can see health bars above mobs and a customizable HUD health display in the game screen.
What it does
Health Bar Plus draws visible HP bars above entities, so mobs show how much health they have left during a fight. Bars can be set separately for passive, neutral and hostile mobs, and each element can be turned off on its own. A player-head screen is included, and the HUD bar can be edited with a built-in editor on Fabric and Forge.
The mod is configured through a settings window opened with the B key by default. Size, position, color and opacity can be changed for most elements. The health bar frames, backgrounds and head holders can be combined, with two frame types usable at the same time, which lets a player build a custom look from the included pieces.
Only the client needs the mod, so servers run without it and players add it on their own side. It is published for Fabric and Forge across 8 release versions, 1.16.5 – 1.20.1, and is released under All rights reserved, so the code is not open source.
Key features
Mob health bars
Bars appear above mobs, and separate settings apply to passive, neutral and hostile mobs.
HUD health display
A HUD bar and player head can be positioned, scaled and colored, with an editor for building the layout.
Frame and background pieces
Dozens of frame, background and head holder styles can be combined, with two frame types used together.
Adjustable elements
Size, position, color and opacity can be changed for most elements, and any single element can be switched off.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Tracking fights
Mob bars let a player see how close a hostile mob is to dying before committing to the next hit.
Custom HUD layouts
Players who want a different look can use the editor and the frame pieces to rearrange the health display.
Who it’s for: Players who want to read mob health during combat or restyle the HUD health display. Server owners do not need to install anything for it.
How it compares
Simple Health Bar also runs client-side only and is for Fabric and Forge, but it is released under All rights reserved and covers 1.18.2 – 1.21.11, a wider range than Health Bar Plus. CustomHealthHUD is for Forge alone, for 1.20.1 only, and runs on client and server under the Apache License 2.0. Additional Bars is client and server, covers 1.16.5 – 1.21.8 and is open source under the MIT License.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Bar Plus | Fabric and Forge | 1.16.5 – 1.20.1 | Client-side only | 2023-09-07 |
| Simple Health Bar | Fabric and Forge | 1.18.2 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2025-12-20 |
| CustomHealthHUD | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-01-14 |
| Additional Bars | Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.16.5 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-08-21 |
Questions
Does Health Bar Plus need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Health Bar Plus support?
Can Does Health Bar Plus show bars for every mob type?
In the catalog
Health Bar Plus is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This is a HUD and hp bar editor and is currently available for FORGE/FABRIC As you can see it in the pictures, you can create some new things for your HUD like: - adding the player head to the screen - creating a circle or square frame, second frame and background as a "head holder" - creating a health bar (frame…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/health-bar-plus
- Owner
- YourDailyModder
- Published
- 2023-09-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-09-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15