Better Player Locator Bar is a Fabric mod. It shows players in a HUD bar above the XP bar. You can customize icons, borders, fades, and more.

🎯 Features

• HUD bar with icons representing nearby players and death markers
• Customizable icon style: default, minimal, mojang, bowtie (shift + click)
• Icon border styles: rounded or squared
• Option to show player names and heads
• Vertical arrows when height difference is significant by player camera or position
• Distance-based fading (configurable start, end, alpha min/max)
• Smooth interpolation using easing
• Asset detection: scans included textures in sprites/hud/
• Client/server sync via handshake and position payloads; fallback to local mode
• Config UI (F8 in game or use ModMenu), preview, per-player overrides (color, icon, border...)
• Death markers persistence and cleanup

📸 Gallery

A preview of how you would see other players with the mod

A preview of a player on the HUD

A preview of two players on the HUD

This would be a preview of the settings screen so you can customize it as much as you want

Now you can customize your friends icons

Dependencies

• Fabric API
• ModMenu (recommended but opcional)

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API
2. Place the .jar mod file into your mods/ folder
3. Run Minecraft

Known Issues & Limitations

• Only works in Fabric, no Forge/NeoForge/... support (yet? 🥀)
• It can become inaccurate
• There may be rendering issues in other parts of the HUD
• You will most likely encounter problems with the order of the icons and the experience bar
• It is not possible to change the color of your dot/head (yet...)

License

The contents of this repository and mod, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (Canonical URL)