Progress Peek

Name: Progress Peek
Author: decce6

With Progress Peek installed, the game's loading progress shows as a bar on the taskbar while the window is minimized or in the background.

FabricForgeNeoForgeQuiltClient-side onlyGNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 onlyOpen source1.20.1 – 26.2

What it does

The mod reports progress for several stages of startup: the game loading, resource loading and world creation. Each stage is passed to the operating system so the taskbar entry fills as work completes, which lets a player follow a long load without switching back to the game window.

Updates to the taskbar are cached, so the mod only calls into the operating system when the state or the progress value actually changes. The native calls go through LWJGL, which uses JNI or the Foreign Function and Memory API where the runtime supports it. Progress Peek runs only on the client, so a server does not need it and players do not need it on a server they join.

Builds are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with files for 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2 and 26.2. The latest file for each loader targets 26.2, except Forge, which targets 1.20.1. The code is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, and source code and an issue tracker are linked from its public pages.

Key features

Startup progress on the taskbar
The taskbar entry shows how far the game has come through loading, resource loading and world creation.
Covers world creation too
Progress is also reported while a new world is generated, not only during the first start of the game.
Cached native updates
The current taskbar state and progress are stored, so repeated identical updates skip the native call.
Native taskbar drawing
The bar is drawn through the operating system's own taskbar interface, with no separate window added.
Desktop launcher hook
The progress value is sent to the desktop launcher through the Unity LauncherAPI over libdbus.

Gallery

ProgressPeek on Windows · Game loading progress is displayed on the taskbar

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

Version

26.x4 of 4 versions with builds

26.21.1.0+26.2-fabricNot available1.1.0+26.2-neoforge1.1.0+26.2-fabric

26.1.21.1.0+26.1.2-fabricNot available1.1.0+26.1.2-neoforge1.1.0+26.1.2-fabric

26.1.11.1.0+26.1.2-fabricNot available1.1.0+26.1.2-neoforge1.1.0+26.1.2-fabric

26.11.1.0+26.1.2-fabricNot available1.1.0+26.1.2-neoforge1.1.0+26.1.2-fabric

1.21.x5 of 5 versions with builds

1.21.111.1.0+1.21.11-fabricNot available1.1.0+1.21.11-neoforge1.1.0+1.21.11-fabric

1.21.101.1.0+1.21.11-fabricNot available1.1.0+1.21.11-neoforge1.1.0+1.21.11-fabric

1.21.91.1.0+1.21.11-fabricNot availableNot available1.1.0+1.21.11-fabric

1.21.81.1.0+1.21.11-fabricNot availableNot available1.1.0+1.21.11-fabric

1.21.11.1.0+1.21.1-fabricNot available1.1.0+1.21.1-neoforge1.1.0+1.21.1-fabric

1.20.x1 of 1 version with builds

1.20.11.1.0+1.20.1-fabric1.1.0+1.20.1-forgeNot available1.1.0+1.20.1-fabric

ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Use cases

Watching a long modpack start

A player with many mods can keep working in another window and check the taskbar for the loading stage.

Creating large worlds

The bar also tracks world generation, so a player can see how much of a new world is left.

Who it’s for: Players who run the game on a desktop and want to see loading progress without bringing the game window forward.

How it compares

Full comparison

TaskbarIconChanger is a Fabric client mod for 1.21 – 1.21.11 under the MIT License. It changes the taskbar icon rather than showing progress. Startup Time is open source under the MIT License and runs on the client alone, with files for 1.19 – 26.2 on Fabric and NeoForge, and it reports startup timing instead of taskbar progress.

Mod	Loaders	Game versions	Environment	Updated
Progress Peek	Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt	1.20.1 – 26.2	Client-side only	2026-08-26
TaskbarIconChanger	Fabric	1.21 – 1.21.11	Client-side only	2024-07-18
Startup Time	Fabric and NeoForge	1.19 – 26.2	Client-side only	2026-09-07

Questions

Does Progress Peek need to be installed on the server?

No. It is installed on the player's side alone, so servers need nothing.

Which loaders does Progress Peek support?

Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt each have a file. The latest build for Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt targets 26.2, and the latest Forge build targets 1.20.1.