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🎉 PartyLink 2.0.0 – Your HUD, your way

PartyLink 2.0.0 makes the party HUD fully customizable for every player. Choose a design, decide what is shown, set the size and simply drag the HUD to where you want it. 🎨

💾 All HUD settings are stored on your own computer (config/partylink-client.json), so your HUD looks the same on every server and stays when you join another party.

📖 Full documentation: HUD Settings in the Wiki

✨ New: HUD Settings screen

• Open it with P → HUD & Design... or with the new key Open HUD Settings (unbound by default, works without a party too).
• 👀 Live preview – every change is visible immediately. Without a party, example members are shown.
• Four tabs: Design, Display, Size & Position and Pings & World.
• 🔄 Reset All button (with confirmation).

🖌️ Design

• 3 styles: Futuristic (glowing frame, corner accents), Classic (clean dark box) and Minimal (light background, text with shadow).
• 🌈 Any accent color: 8 presets (Blue, Green, Red, Gold, Purple, Orange, Pink, White) or mix your own with RGB sliders.
• Background opacity from 0 to 100 %.
• Animations on/off, text shadow on/off.
• Member colors: each row in the member's own color, or all in your accent color.

📋 Display

• Detailed layout or the new Compact layout (one line per member).
• ✅ Every value can be turned on or off: header, player heads, yourself, offline members, level, HP text, HP bar, XP text, XP bar, distance and add-on lines.
• 🔀 Sorting: party order, name, distance (nearest first) or health (lowest first).
• Max. rows – more members are shown as "+N more".
• Hide when alone – no HUD while you are the only member.

📏 Size & Position

• Scale 50–200 % and width 140–320 pixels.
• Auto scale for small windows (can be turned off).
• ⚓ 9 screen anchors (corners, edges, center) – the HUD keeps its place on every window size and GUI scale.

🖱️ New: HUD Editor

• Drag the HUD with your mouse wherever you want.
• When you let go, it snaps to the nearest anchor automatically.
• 🖲️ Mouse wheel changes the size.
• Buttons for anchor, reset position and done – they move out of the way when the HUD is at the bottom.

📍 Pings & World

• Ping markers on/off, ping labels on/off.
• Marker size 50–200 %.
• 🔊 Ping sound on/off and ping volume.
• ✨ Glow of party members on/off.

♻️ Upgrading from 1.x

• ✅ Your old HUD settings are taken over automatically (visibility, player heads, size, color, position, glow and ping sound) the first time you join your party with 2.0.0.
• The party settings screen (P) now has two buttons, HUD & Design... and Move HUD..., instead of the old personal HUD buttons.
• 🔗 Same network protocol as 1.2.x: 2.0.0 and 1.2.x clients and servers work together.

🔧 Improvements

• The party settings screen is more compact and grows with the member list, so large parties no longer overlap the buttons.

🧩 For developers – API version 3

• PartyLinkClientApi.setHudSuppressed(key, true/false) – hide the party HUD while your mod needs the screen (e.g. cutscenes).
• getHudBounds() – where the HUD is drawn, so your own HUD elements can avoid it.
• isHudEnabled(), isHudSuppressed() and getHudAccentColor() to match the player's design.
• ✅ Fully backwards compatible with API versions 1 and 2 – existing add-ons like Solo Mining keep working.
• 📖 Details: Client API in the Wiki

📦 Supported versions

Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3.

⚠️ PartyLink must be installed on the server and on every client that should see the HUD. Pick the file that matches your loader and Minecraft version, e.g. partylink-neoforge-26.3-2.0.0.jar.