CritIndicator

CritIndicator turns vanilla’s nearly invisible crit sparkle into something you can actually feel. When you land a critical hit on a living entity, a large yellow CRIT! flashes in the upper-third of your screen and fades out over 1.5 seconds — and a small bottom-right counter ticks up your current streak. Miss a crit and the streak resets; nail a clean run and you’ll watch your personal best climb.

What it shows

Crit streak: 7
Best:        21
14/26 (54%)

• Crit streak — consecutive crits since your last non-crit attack on a mob.
• Best — highest streak this session.
• hits/total (%) — running crit ratio: how many of your attacks were crits.

How it detects crits

Same conditions vanilla uses when computing critical hits, evaluated the moment you swing at a living entity:

• Player is falling (fallDistance > 0)
• Player is not on ground, climbing, in water, in a vehicle or sprinting
• Player is not under Blindness
• Attack cooldown is at least ~90% recharged
• Target is a LivingEntity

This means the indicator agrees with the server’s actual crit calculation — if vanilla would crit, CRIT! flashes; if not, nothing fires and your streak breaks.

Controls

• V — toggle the HUD on / off
• Shift + V — reset streak, best, and ratio counters

Both keys are read via raw GLFW polling, so they work the same on every supported Minecraft version without a rebind UI.

Compatibility

Works on Minecraft 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, and 1.21.11 (Fabric Loader 0.16+). One JAR for all four versions — install with Fabric API and drop into your mods/ folder.

• Pure client-side — install on the client only, works on any server, no game-state changes, no anti-cheat impact.
• Hides automatically when you press F1 to hide the rest of the HUD.
• Counters live in memory only — they reset when you quit (this is a session streak, not a lifetime stat).

Why

Critical hits in vanilla are subtle: a small particle puff and a slightly higher damage number. CritIndicator gives you instant, glanceable feedback that your timing was right — and a streak counter you can chase.