SafeSquares
by Lemmmy
SafeSquares shows where hostile mobs can spawn by drawing an overlay on the ground in Minecraft Beta b1.7.3.
What it does
Pressing the L hotkey turns the overlay on. While it is active, blocks where monsters can spawn are marked with a red cross, and blocks where spawning happens only at night are marked with a yellow cross. The overlay is drawn over the top blocks of the world, in the style of a light-level map, so a player can see which places are safe before stepping onto them.
The mod is client-side only, so a server does not need it and players can join a server without installing it. It requires Fabric Language Kotlin and StationAPI, and Mod Menu is optional for in-game configuration of its settings. It is published for Fabric and Babric, for the single game version b1.7.3, with snapshot builds also published. The project is open source under the MIT License and is inspired by the safe-mod idea in Zombe's Modpack, whose source code the author used while developing it. Large language models were used during development, and AI-generated contributions are accepted.
Key features
Spawn overlay
Blocks where hostile mobs can spawn are highlighted in red, so the ground around a player is clear to read.
Night-only spawn marking
Blocks where spawning happens only at night are marked with a yellow cross, separate from the always-spawn areas.
Hotkey toggle
The overlay is switched on and off with the L key, which is the default binding.
Top-block view
The highlight is drawn over the top blocks of the terrain, similar to a light-level overlay.
Gallery
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
Optional 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players of Minecraft Beta b1.7.3 who use Fabric or Babric and want to see mob spawn areas on the ground. Single-player players do not need a server, since the mod runs only on the client.
How it compares
Good Sign Editing is a Fabric and Babric mod for b1.7.3 that can run on a client, a server or both, and is open source under the MIT License. KeyF3 also targets b1.7.3 on Fabric and Babric, is client-side only and is open source under the MIT License, so it shows debug information rather than spawn areas. Simple Block Overlay is client-side only, open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, but it is published for Fabric on 1.20 – 26.2 and has no Babric build.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SafeSquares | Fabric and Babric | b1.7.3 | Client-side only | 2026-06-13 |
| Good Sign Editing | Fabric and Babric | b1.7.3 | Client or server, optional | 2026-06-13 |
| KeyF3 | Fabric and Babric | b1.7.3 | Client-side only | 2025-10-11 |
| Simple Block Overlay | Fabric | 1.20 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-08-20 |
Questions
Does SafeSquares need to be installed on the server?
Which dependencies must be installed with SafeSquares?
Which game version does SafeSquares support?
Does the overlay work on every spawn rule?
In the catalog
SafeSquares is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 567 mods support Minecraft b1.7.3.
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What the author says
SafeSquares is a mod for Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 that adds a light-level overlay on top of blocks, in the style of the "safe" mod from Zombe's Modpack. When enabled with the hotkey ( L by default), blocks that monsters can spawn on will be highlighted with a red cross, or a yellow cross if they can only spawn there…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/safesquares
- Owner
- Lemmmy
- Published
- 2026-03-26
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15