AMS Pings

AMS Pings adds lightweight multiplayer pings to Minecraft.

Ping your own position, point at a location in the world, or ping a hovered item from an inventory, chest, furnace, or other container. Pings show compact HUD markers with distance in meters and chat coordinates, so other players can quickly see where to go or what item was called out.

AMS Pings

Default hotkeys:

V - ping your own location.
B - ping the location you are looking at.
B while hovering an item in an inventory/container screen - ping that item.

Hotkeys can be changed in Options -> Controls -> Key Binds under AMS Pings.

Configuration is generated after first launch:

pingDurationMs default 5000: how long pings stay visible.
pingCooldownMs default 5000: cooldown between pings per player.
targetRangeBlocks default 160: maximum distance for pinging the place you are looking at.
markerSize default 7: marker square size before HUD scaling.
showDistance default true: shows distance in meters.
showOffscreenMarkers default true: clamps offscreen pings to the screen edge.

Features

Self-location pings.
World location pings for the place you are looking at.
Hovered item pings from inventories and containers.
Player faces and item icons where useful.
Distance in meters.
Chat coordinates with X, Y, and Z.
Offscreen edge markers.
Configurable duration, cooldown, range, marker size, distance text, and edge markers.

Installation

Install the jar on the server and every client that should send or see pings.

Compatibility Notes

Distant Horizons-only visual terrain may not be pingable because the mod needs an actual in-game surface to detect.

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