Classic Bar Unofficial

Classic Bar Unofficial

A NeoForge 1.21.1 community port of Tfarcenim's Classic Bar. Clean, readable progress bars replace Minecraft's default icon HUD — hearts, armor, food, air, and more.

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What It Does

Classic Bar replaces the traditional icon rows on your HUD — hearts, armor pieces, food drumsticks, air bubbles, and other status symbols — with continuous progress bars. The health bar scales dynamically with your maximum health instead of locking at 20 points, giving you a cleaner, more information-dense HUD at a single glance.

Originally created by Tfarcenim for Minecraft Forge, this community fork updates the mod to NeoForge 1.21.1, adds new mod integrations, and provides ongoing maintenance.

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Why Download

- Cleaner look — the health bar adjusts to your actual max HP, not a fixed 20 - Cleaner look — every bar can be positioned left, right, or hidden; colors, number display modes, icon toggles, and overlay effects are all configurable through an in-game GUI - Cleaner look — five additional mods now have dedicated bar integrations (see below) - Cleaner look — continuous bars are easier to parse at a glance than scattered icon rows - Cleaner look — reduces visual clutter while keeping all information accessible

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Features

Native Status Bars (8)

- Absorption — Scales dynamically with max health; poison/wither/frozen overlay effects - Absorption — Configurable number of armor layers - Absorption — Hunger icon variant; food preview when holding edible items - Absorption — Sub-bar below the food bar - Absorption — Underwater breath indicator with flashing warning - Absorption — Secondary damage reduction stat - Absorption — Health of horses, striders, llamas, and other mounts - Absorption — Absorption hearts shown as a progress bar

Mod Compatibility

- **Thirst Was Taken** — thirst bar + hydration sub-bar + drink preview - **Vampirism** — blood level bar (replaces the food bar when in vampire form) - **Farmer's Delight** — golden nourishment overlay on the food bar - **Kaleidoscope Cookery** — red satiation-compensation overlay on the food bar - **Enigmatic Legacy+** — Forbidden Curse hunger overlay (mutually exclusive with blood/food)

Multi-Effect Icon Stacking

Poison, Wither, and Freezing icons automatically stack side-by-side on the health bar. Similarly, Hunger, Nourishment, and Satiation-Compensation icons arrange themselves on the food bar — no overlapping mess.

Food & Drink Preview

Hold a food item in your hand to see exactly how much hunger and saturation it will restore, shown as a preview overlay on the bars (similar to AppleSkin).

Custom Pixel Number Fonts

Choose between 3x5_tiny and 3x5_tiny bitmap fonts for a compact, retro-looking numeric display on the HUD.

Full Chinese Translation

Complete zh_CN localization of the entire UI and configuration menu.

Debug Toggles (8)

Developer-only switches for testing bar behavior and HUD rendering — available only in a development environment.

Code Quality Improvements

Compared to the original Forge version, this fork brings: - Centralized registration system (ModOverlays, ModIcons, ModConfigs) - Spotless automated code formatting - Gradle version catalog for unified dependency management - Access Transformer infrastructure - Data generation framework

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Configuration Highlights

- Every status bar: Percentage / Percentage / Percentage - Custom color picker for each bar - Number display modes: Percentage / Percentage / Percentage - Per-bar icon toggle - Per-bar overlay effect toggle - Full configuration GUI — no manual file editing required

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Requirements

- Side: 1.21.1 - Side: 21.1.228+ - Side: Client-side only (no server installation needed)

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Credits

- Original project: Original project: - Original project: %%MD1%%

License

GPL-3.0-only — This fork is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Includes 3x5 bitmap fonts from GPL-3.0-only by catboybinary, also GPL-3.0.