HUD bars
by BRNSystems
HUD bars swaps the vanilla hearts, hunger icons and armor icons on the HUD for continuous bars, and adds an experience bar.
What it does
The Fabric mod replaces the icon rows at the bottom of the screen with bars. A health bar, a hunger bar and an armor bar each fill from left to right, with the current value shown as current/maximum over the bar. The health figure counts absorption, so a player with absorption hearts sees the extra amount in the same bar, and a poison effect changes the bar's colour.
Colours are set in the mod: green for health, yellow when absorption is active, dark green while poisoned, and the experience bar is drawn alongside the others. The HUD is changed on the client only, so a player can use it on a single-player world or a server that does not run the mod. Fabric API is required.
HUD bars is published for Fabric across six release versions covering 1.21.1 – 1.21.11, with 1.1.6 for 1.21.11 as the latest file, released under the MIT License. The source code is open source and public, along with an issue tracker and a wiki.
Key features
Health bar
Health is drawn as a continuous bar with the current and maximum total health written over it.
Hunger and armor bars
Food and armor values are shown as bars in place of the vanilla icon rows.
Absorption display
Absorption is added to the health bar, so extra hearts show as a separate part of the bar.
Poison colouring
While a player is poisoned, the health bar switches to a dark green colour so the effect is clear at a glance.
Experience bar
An experience bar is drawn on the HUD next to the other bars, replacing the standard experience display.
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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 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who prefer bar-style status displays over the default icon rows, and who want exact health, hunger and armor numbers at a glance.
How it compares
IWantToSeeBothBars is a Fabric client-side mod, open source under the MIT License, for 1.21.1 – 1.21.4, so it covers earlier releases than this mod. Totem Bar is also a client-side Fabric mod and open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, with builds for 1.21 – 26.2. Simple Armor HUD is client-side only, is not open source, and is published for 1.21.11 alone.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HUD bars | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2025-12-29 |
| IWantToSeeBothBars (IWTSBB) | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 1.21.4 | Client-side only | 2025-06-15 |
| Totem Bar | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-07-23 |
| Simple Armor HUD | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2026-04-07 |
Questions
Does HUD bars need Fabric API?
Does the server need HUD bars installed?
Which game versions have files for HUD bars?
In the catalog
HUD bars is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,235 Cursed mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
This mod replaces the - health bar - hunger bar - armor bar - xp bar
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/hud-bars
- Owner
- BRNSystems
- Published
- 2024-08-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-12-29
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15