Spawn Distance

A compact HUD in the top-left corner shows the three-dimensional distance to the world spawn, including the elevation difference, in meters that switch to kilometers once the player crosses 1 km. A directional arrow sits beside the figure and turns with the view, so the direction back to spawn stays readable while walking. The overlay is a single line of text and can be hidden with a single press of the O key.

The arrow points to one of eight directions, from straight ahead through the intercardinal points, and the HUD reads Overworld instead of guessing coordinates when the player is in the Nether or the End. Vanilla F3 coordinates answer the same question only after some arithmetic, which is why the mod targets players who venture far from a base and want a quick way home without a full minimap.

Spawn Distance requires Fabric API. It runs as a client-side only mod, so players install it while the server needs nothing, and it leaves the world and gameplay untouched. The mod is released under the MIT License and is not open source, so its code may be modified and redistributed under those terms. Files are published for four recent game versions, with 1.0.0 for 1.21.11 as the latest Fabric build.