Sense — Directional Threat Radar

Sense gives you a directional early-warning system for nearby hostile mobs. Instead of a minimap or compass, flashing bars appear right at the edge of your screen — front, back, left, or right — showing exactly which way danger is approaching from, relative to where you're actually looking.

Features

Flashing edge-of-screen bars for each direction (front / back / left / right), relative to your actual view direction — not world north
Color-coded by distance: red = very close, orange = mid-range, yellow = at the edge of detection range
Bars blink faster and grow larger the closer the threat gets
Positional "ping" sound plays when a new threat enters range, panned through Minecraft's own audio engine so you can hear which direction it's coming from
Toggle the radar on/off anytime with B
Fully client-side — safe to add or remove without affecting servers or worlds, and safe to use in singleplayer

Configuration

Edit config/sense-client.toml after first launch to adjust:

detectRadius — how far (in blocks) Sense scans for hostile mobs
scanIntervalTicks — how often it rescans
soundAlerts / soundVolume — directional ping sound settings

Compatibility

Sense detects anything that counts as a hostile mob (implements Minecraft's Enemy interface), so it works with vanilla monsters as well as most modded hostile mobs — including custom zombie variants from zombie-apocalypse-style modpacks.

Sense – Directional Threat Radar