Player Health Indicators (ANIMATED)
by ItziSpyder
Player Health Indicators (ANIMATED) draws a health bar above each player's head, with the hearts animated the way the vanilla status bar is.
What it does
The mod renders an HP bar above players' heads. Its hearts follow the vanilla status bar: they blink when health changes, flash after the last damage, play a regeneration wave and stack into extra rows when a player has more than one row of hearts. Absorption hearts are drawn as well. Heart textures come in several types, including withered, poisoned, frozen, hardcore and normal.
The mod needs ImproperUI to run, and it is installed on the client only, so players join servers without it. Its settings control whether rendering is on, whether NPC players show a bar, whether the player's own bar is visible, and the bar's scale and vertical offset. Snapshot builds are not part of this card. The code is under the MIT License and is open source, and the source code and issue tracker are public. Files are published for Fabric, and the 1.21 – 26.1.2 range covers five release versions, with 26.1.2 receiving the latest file, 26.1-0.0.1, on 2026-04-09.
Key features
Animated hearts
Hearts blink on health changes, flash after the last damage and play a regeneration wave, copying the vanilla status bar.
Heart stacking
When a player has more than one row of hearts, the bar stacks them higher, as the vanilla bar does.
Heart texture types
Withered, poisoned, frozen, hardcore and normal heart textures can be shown on the bar above a player.
Adjustable display
Scale and vertical offset settings move and resize the bar, and an option hides NPC bars or shows the player's own bar.
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 1
Use cases
Multiplayer visibility
Players can see the health of others at a glance during fights on servers that allow the mod.
Who it’s for: Players who want health shown above other players' heads, and survival players who like a status bar that reacts to damage and regeneration. Server owners should check their rules first, since some servers ban health indicators and many run anti-indicator plugins that stop the bar from working.
How it compares
Simple Health Indicators is client-side only, open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.21.9 – 26.3 on Fabric. Heart Indicator is also client-side only and runs on Fabric for 1.21 – 26.3, but it is not open source. Health Indicator Simple runs on Fabric and NeoForge for 1.21 – 26.3 and is under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player Health Indicators (ANIMATED) | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.1.2 | Client-side only | 2026-04-09 |
| Simple Health Indicators | Fabric | 1.21.9 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-10-01 |
| Heart Indicator | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-22 |
| Health Indicator Simple | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-30 |
Questions
Does Player Health Indicators need ImproperUI?
Does a server need the mod installed?
Will the bar work on every server?
In the catalog
Player Health Indicators (ANIMATED) is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 8,894 Equipment mods for Fabric. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Health bar is also animated responsively just like a player's client-side status bar! Supported heart types include: - withered - poisened - frozen - hardcoare - abosorption - normal
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/healthindicators
- Owner
- ItziSpyder
- Published
- 2024-06-17
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-09
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15