Combat Cues: Low Health Vignette & Hitmarkers

Feel every hit without staring at your hearts.

• Low health vignette: below 3 hearts (you choose, 1-10) the screen edges beat like a heart, faster and wider as you get closer to death.
• Damage you can tell apart: a short flash at the edges in the colours of what hurt you. Embers for fire and lava, ice crystals for freezing, green veins for poison, black veins for wither, bubbles for drowning, purple sparkles for magic.
• Heavy hits crack the glass: one hit taking 30% of your health (you choose) cracks the corner it came from.
• Healing glow: soft green when you are healed (potions, Regeneration, golden apples), gold when you get absorption hearts.
• Hitmarker: a quick X at your crosshair when your hit lands. Red on the killing blow. Confirmed by the server: a swing that missed or was blocked shows nothing.
• Damage direction: a red arc around the crosshair on the side the hit came from.

Every effect is adjustable

In game: Mods > Combat Cues > Config (on Fabric through Mod Menu, optional). For each effect: on/off, intensity, size and an alternative palette for colour-blind players. Plus Reduce flashes and Hide in creative. Subtle by default, and it never covers the crosshair or the hotbar.

Plays well with others

Drawn in its own HUD layer under the hotbar. It does not replace or cancel anything from the game or other mods.

For modpack makers

Client-side only: nothing to install on the server, works on any server, in single player and on Realms. One config file: config/vitral_cues.json.

Versions

• Minecraft 1.20.1: Forge
• Minecraft 1.21.1 and 26.2: NeoForge
• Minecraft 26.3 and 26.2: Fabric (needs Fabric API)

Made by an indie dev with help from AI tools; every version is tested in game.

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