Better Player Locator Bar

A Minecraft Fabric mod that adds an enhanced player locator bar. An improvement over Mojang's existing player indicator system.

Description

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.

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

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

HUD

A preview of a player on the HUD

OnePlayerBarPreview

A preview of two players on the HUD

TwoPlayerBarPreview

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

ConfigScreenPreview

Now you can customize your friends icons

PlayerCustomPreview

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...)