Boss Bars: Animated Health Bars for Every Boss
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Every boss bar gets its own animated frame: skulls and ice armour for the Wither, flames and crystals for the Ender Dragon, banners for raids. Damage trail, cracks, shake and a shattering death. Client-side.
Frostmaw and Ignis: the damage trail, the shards and the crest cracking as their health drops.
Frost, fire, nature, arcane, sun, crystal, bone and iron. The theme comes from the boss's name, or from its bar colour.
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The Wither, the Ender Dragon, raids and a themed bar for every other boss, all in one fight.
Mods > Boss Bars > Config (Mod Menu on Fabric): switch modded bosses to "Their own look" and their own bars stay untouched.
Description
Every boss bar gets a frame of its own, and it comes alive when you fight.
- Wither: a cracked obsidian frame with three skulls; one goes dark for each third of health lost. At half health the bar puts on its ice armour, just like the Wither does.
- Ender Dragon: purple flames and wings, and one gem for each End crystal still standing. Break a crystal, lose a gem.
- Raids: a dark oak frame with the ominous banner on both ends.
- Modded bosses get a themed frame picked from the boss's name, or from the bar's colour when the name gives no hint. There are eight themes, each with its own crest: a snowflake for ice (Frostmaw), a phoenix for fire (Ignis), a tree for nature, an eye for arcane, a rising sun, a crystal cluster, a horned skull for bone and a knight's helm for iron (Ferrous Wroughtnaut). Each one has its own falling snow, embers, leaves or sparks. When several bosses are up at once, the bars shrink together so they never cover your crosshair.
Every hit shows
- The health just lost stays as a pale trail that drains a moment later.
- Hard hits shake the bar and knock shards off it.
- The frame cracks at 75, 50, 25 and 10 percent.
- A new phase flashes and refills the bar, and when the boss dies its bar shatters.
- The game's Screen Effects slider also calms the shaking and the shards.
Plays well with other mods
- Want a mod's own bar art back? Open Mods > Boss Bars > Config (Mod Menu on Fabric) and pick Their own look. Tested with Goety, Legendary Monsters, Iron's Spells, Bosses of Mass Destruction, L_Ender's Cataclysm and Mowzie's Mobs.
- Nothing is recoloured: no texture of the game or of any mod is touched. Everything is drawn by code.
- If you use another mod that redraws boss bars, pick one of the two.
Client-side
Nothing to install on the server. Works on any server, in single player and on Realms.
Versions
- Minecraft 26.3 and 26.2: Fabric (needs Fabric API)
- Minecraft 26.2 and 1.21.1: NeoForge
Made by an indie dev with help from AI tools; every version is tested in game.
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