ShardHud

ShardHud is a lightweight client-side HUD mod for Minecraft shard networks, where a single server is split into shards or subservers. It watches the online player list and detects when players join or leave the current shard, then shows those events as on-screen notifications. Because the mod runs on the client, the server needs no changes, although a proxy server-side plugin is required for shard-local player data to reach the client.

Notifications can appear as an animated card or as a compact list. The card style shows a player joining the shard, and the list fades entries out smoothly after a short time. Joins are drawn in green and leaves in red, with the followed player's name in white. The HUD can be moved and scaled, and it can sit partly beyond the screen edge. Pressing K opens a plain, non-blurred HUD editor where elements are dragged and clicked into place, and changes are saved automatically together with the other ShardHud settings.

The mod is released under the MIT License and is not open source. Fabric API is required. Builds cover 1.21.11 – 26.2, with the latest Fabric file, V2, made for 1.21.11.