Render Offhand

The mod draws whatever a player holds in the offhand slot on the character model, so other players can see it while the mainhand item is also drawn. Each hand is handled on its own, so the offhand rendering does not depend on what the mainhand holds. The arms are drawn with their own textures, and the offhand item sits in the correct hand.

Rendering stops while a player is charging a bow or a crossbow, or holding a charged crossbow, so the held item does not clip into the drawn arm during those actions. Two toggle options let a player switch the offhand and mainhand rendering on or off in the mod's configuration. Render Offhand is a spiritual successor to Visible Offhand, rebuilt for modern Fabric versions.

The mod runs on the Fabric loader for 1.21.10 and 1.21.11, and only the client needs it. Files cover game versions 1.21.10 – 1.21.11, with 0.1.1 for 1.21.11 as the latest build, published 2025-12-09. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license and is not open source, but the source code and issue tracker are public, and the author allows free forks that are reused or redistributed in a meaningful changed form, not for commercial use.