Armor Insight HUD is a lightweight, client-side-only Fabric mod that gives you instant, at-a-glance intel on any player or armored mob you're looking at — no menus, no tooltips, no guessing.

Aim your crosshair at an opponent (or an armored zombie, skeleton, piglin, wither skeleton, drowned, etc.) and a compact panel fades in just above their nametag, showing:

Durability for each of their four armor pieces (helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots), color-coded green/yellow/red so you can tell at a glance who's about to lose their gear.
PvP-relevant enchantments — Protection, Fire Protection, Blast Protection, Projectile Protection, Thorns, Feather Falling, plus Mending and Unbreaking — shown as small icons with their level, so you know exactly what you're up against before you commit to a fight.

The panel disappears the instant you lose line of sight or look away, and fades in smoothly (no jarring pop-in) when you switch targets.

Features

Real raycast, not the vanilla crosshair. Detection range matches your own render distance setting, not the short vanilla interaction range — spot armor from much further away.
Works on mobs too. Any armored LivingEntity — not just players — gets a panel. Unarmored mobs are left alone so you're not drowning in HUD clutter.
Distance-aware scaling. The panel shrinks slightly the further away your target is, and collapses into simple color-coded dots at extreme range instead of disappearing entirely.
Fully repositionable. Don't like where the panel sits? Hold the arrow keys to nudge it up/down/left/right in real time, relative to your camera. Your position is saved automatically and persists between sessions.
Three quick toggles, all rebindable in Options > Controls > Armor Insight HUD:
- C — turn the whole HUD on/off
- V — switch durability between percentage (72%) and absolute (276/384)
- B — hide durability entirely and show only enchantment icons
Zero gameplay impact. This is a pure information overlay — everything it shows is already synced to your client for rendering armor models; the mod just visualizes it more usefully.

Controls

Key	Action
`C`	Toggle the HUD on/off
`V`	Cycle durability format (% ↔ absolute)
`B`	Toggle enchantments-only mode
`↑` `↓` `←` `→` (hold)	Reposition the panel

All keys are freely rebindable.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.21.11
Fabric Loader 0.19.3+
Fabric API
Client-side only — no server-side installation needed, safe for singleplayer and any multiplayer server.

Notes

This is purely a visual/informational overlay — it does not grant any gameplay advantage beyond making already-available client-side data easier to read.
No config screen yet; all settings persist automatically via the in-game keybinds.

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