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Player Highlighter

A lightweight client-side Fabric mod that improves player awareness with glowing outlines, on-screen target icons, and a nearby-player information HUD.

Overview

Player Highlighter makes other players easier to locate and track without requiring any server-side installation.

The mod provides three visual features:

A glowing outline around other players
Small target icons displayed over visible players
A HUD list showing nearby player information

Glowing outlines and target icons appear while the configured hold key is pressed or while keep mode is enabled. The player information HUD remains available independently.

All features are handled entirely on the client.

Key Features

Highlights other players with a glowing outline
Displays target icons over players currently visible on screen
Shows nearby player information in a HUD
Shows player name, relative direction, distance, health, and coordinates
Supports a hold key for temporary highlighting
Supports toggleable keep mode for persistent highlighting
Supports a client command for showing or hiding the player information HUD

Highlight Controls

Highlighting is active when either of the following conditions is met:

The highlight hold key is pressed Default key: TAB
Keep mode is enabled Default toggle key: I

When highlighting is active:

Other players receive a glowing outline
Visible players receive a small target icon at their projected screen position

When neither condition is active, the glowing outlines and target icons disappear immediately.

Player Information HUD

The HUD displays nearby players in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

Example:

Player867 ↑ 11m ❤ 20.0 (123, 64, -456)

Field descriptions:

Player867 — Player name
↑ — Direction relative to the current camera facing
11m — Horizontal distance on the XZ plane
❤ 20.0 — Current health
(123, 64, -456) — World coordinates

Multiple players are listed vertically.

The direction indicator can use the following arrows:

↑ ↗ → ↘ ↓ ↙ ← ↖

The HUD is hidden when Minecraft's GUI is hidden.

HUD visibility can also be controlled with the client command:

/playerhighlighter hud on
/playerhighlighter hud off
/playerhighlighter hud toggle
/playerhighlighter hud status

Command behavior:

/playerhighlighter hud on shows the Player Information HUD
/playerhighlighter hud off hides the Player Information HUD
/playerhighlighter hud toggle switches the HUD between shown and hidden
/playerhighlighter hud status shows the current HUD state

Target Icons

While highlighting is active, a small target icon is rendered over each visible player.

Icons are displayed only when the player:

Is in front of the camera
Can be projected onto the current screen
Is within the visible screen boundaries
Is not the current camera entity

Players behind the camera or outside the screen are not assigned an icon.

Glowing Outline

Other players are rendered using an outline similar to Minecraft's vanilla Glowing effect.

Behavior:

Only player entities are affected
The local player is excluded
Mobs and other entities are not affected
The outline follows vanilla outline rendering rules
Team-based outline colors may still apply where supported
No real status effect is added to the player

Supported Versions

Minecraft 26.1.2
Fabric Loader 0.19.2+
Fabric API 0.150.0+
Java 25

License

MIT

PlayerHighlighter