WatcherHUD

WatcherHUD

A context-aware HUD that shows what you’re looking at.

WatcherHUD is a modern, lightweight HUD mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge) that displays real-time information about the block, entity or container under your crosshair — without opening any menu.

✨ Features

🧱 Block Information

• Name and mod origin (namespace:path)
• Coordinates (XYZ + relative to player)
• Redstone signal (input power + analog output)
• Mining tool required to break the block
• Break progress (percentage while mining)
• Liquid detection (water, lava and modded fluids)
• Fluid bucket icon when targeting liquids

📦 Containers & Machines

• Chests, barrels, shulkers, hoppers, droppers, dispensers — full item grid preview
• Double chests — merged into a single 54-slot view
• Ender chests — per-player content
• Furnaces — input, fuel, output in real time
• Brewing stands — fuel + potions
• Beehives — bee count + honey level
• Jukeboxes — currently playing disc
• Note blocks — note and instrument
• Command blocks — stored command
• Spawners — entity type

🐄 Entity Information

• Name and mod origin
• 3D preview of living entities
• Health bar (with armor value)
• Active potion effects with duration
• Breeding status (baby timer, cooldown)
• Horses — jump strength + speed
• Llamas — strength value
• Villagers — profession and level
• Tamed pets — owner name
• Item frames — displayed item
• Armor stands — equipped armor
• Chickens — egg timer

🎨 Interface

• Sleek dark tooltip with blue accent
• Auto-scales with GUI Scale and screen resolution
• Sneak to reveal extra details
• Configurable position via drag-and-drop
• All toggles in an in-game custom config screen (KP_0)

🔌 Plugin System

• Public API for other mods to add their own providers
• Plugin manager with runtime enable/disable
• Per-plugin toggles shown in the config screen
• Keybind tracking — automatically disabled when the plugin is
• Version check — plugins declare their target API version

⌨️ Keybinds (Default)

Optional — WatcherHUDJEI addon

🔧 Installation

1. Install Forge 47.4.10 for Minecraft 1.20.1
2. Drop WatcherHUD-1.0.0-Alpha.jar into your mods/ folder
3. Launch the game — that’s it

Optional: Install the WatcherHUDJEI addon for Just Enough Items integration.

🧩 Compatibility

• Client-side for most features
• Server-side installation recommended for container content (chests, shulkers, etc.)
• Works alongside JEI, REI, EMI via addons
• Independent from Jade, WTHIT, TOP — can be used together

🛠️ For Mod Developers

WatcherHUD exposes a public plugin API. Any Forge mod can extend the HUD with custom providers, toggles and keybinds.

public class MyPlugin implements WatcherHUDPlugin {

    @Override
    public String getPluginId() { return "mymod:main"; }

    @Override
    public void registerBlockProviders(BlockProviderRegistry registry) {
        registry.register(
                ResourceLocation.fromNamespaceAndPath("mymod", "my_provider"),
                MyBlock.class,
                (accessor, tooltip) -> tooltip.addStyled(
                        Component.literal("Hello from MyMod"),
                        TextStyle.SUCCESS)
        );
    }

    @Override
    public void registerEntityProviders(EntityProviderRegistry registry) {
        // ...
    }
}