Crow Bar

Readable player locator bar for Minecraft — Fabric and NeoForge

CrowBar extends the vanilla locator bar with readable player name tags, skin markers, distance text, team-colored dots, and a self-view capture mode. On Minecraft 1.21–1.21.5, which have no locator bar, it draws the same markers over the experience bar. CrowBar runs on your client; other players do not need the mod. An optional server plugin or Allium can share player positions beyond the server’s tracking range, especially on 1.21–1.21.5.

Key Features

• Player Name Tags Render readable player names above locator bar markers.

• Skin Faces Replace locator dots with player skin faces for quick identification.

• Distance Text Show optional distance text next to player names.

• Team Colors Preserve team colors when a team color is available, or pick per-player or single colors.

• Self-View Mode Toggle a clean self-view mode for locator bar screenshots, with your own dot color. Hides hearts, hunger, armor, and the vanilla locator bar while active.

• Minecraft 1.21–1.21.5 Markers drawn over the experience bar on versions before the locator bar, with the same names, faces and settings. On these versions, far-away players require Allium or the optional CrowBar server plugin.

• Settings Screen Open it with \, from Mod Menu on Fabric, or from the mod list on NeoForge. Appearance options are off by default, except Dim other labels, which stays on.

• Appearance Options Dark label backgrounds, a HUD that smoothly lifts hearts, hunger, the experience level and chat above labels, overlap hiding, team-colored skin frames, configurable dot colors, and distance fading. You can also change your own dot color in view-self mode.

• Hold or Toggle Keys Each feature key can toggle, or show the feature only while held.

• Claim Waypoints Claim names and bowtie markers for claims you own or are trusted on, from the CrowBar server plugin or GPExpansion.

Keybinds

• N Toggle locator name tags
• B Toggle locator skins
• Z Toggle claim waypoints
• X Show distance
• \ Open CrowBar settings

Keybinds can be changed from Minecraft’s controls menu under the CrowBar category.

Server Plugin

Every CrowBar jar is also an optional Paper, Spigot, Purpur and Folia plugin: put the same file in a server’s plugins folder. It sends CrowBar players everyone’s position, far beyond the server’s tracking range, with Player Locator Plus style settings for hiding players, precision and colors. With GriefPrevention installed it adds bowtie claim markers, which players without CrowBar also see on Paper 1.21.6 and newer. It steps aside for Allium Essentials and GPExpansion when they are installed. See the README for its settings, permissions and commands.

Supported Platforms

CrowBar is available for both Fabric and NeoForge from Minecraft 1.21 to 26.3:

Fabric

• Minecraft 1.21 – 1.21.1 — Java 21, Fabric Loader 0.18.4+, Fabric API 0.100.1+
• Minecraft 1.21.2 – 1.21.5 — Java 21, Fabric Loader 0.18.4+, Fabric API 0.102.2+
• Minecraft 1.21.6 – 1.21.8 — Java 21, Fabric Loader 0.18.4+, Fabric API 0.125.0+
• Minecraft 1.21.9 – 1.21.11 — Java 21, Fabric Loader 0.18.4+, Fabric API 0.134.0+
• Minecraft 26.1.x — Java 25, Fabric Loader 0.19.2+, Fabric API 0.145.1+
• Minecraft 26.2 — Java 25, Fabric Loader 0.19.3+, Fabric API 0.152.2+
• Minecraft 26.3 — Java 25, Fabric Loader 0.19.5+, Fabric API 0.160.7+

NeoForge

• Minecraft 1.21 – 1.21.1 — Java 21, NeoForge 21.0+
• Minecraft 1.21.3 – 1.21.5 — Java 21, NeoForge 21.3+
• Minecraft 1.21.6 – 1.21.8 — Java 21, NeoForge 21.6+
• Minecraft 1.21.9 – 1.21.10 — Java 21, NeoForge 21.9+
• Minecraft 1.21.11 — Java 21, NeoForge 21.11+
• Minecraft 26.1.x — Java 25, NeoForge 26.1+
• Minecraft 26.2 — Java 25, NeoForge 26.2+
• Minecraft 26.3 — Java 25, NeoForge 26.3+

Use the jar that matches your Minecraft version and loader. NeoForge builds are split per Minecraft line because Mojang’s class renames change the API surface between minor versions.

Download

Download CrowBar from GitHub Releases

Documentation

For usage instructions, see the official CrowBar Wiki.

Support

• 📖 Documentation — Learn how CrowBar works. Contains answers to most questions.
• Issue Tracker — Report problems or bugs. Check if someone else reported your issue before posting.
• Discord Community

Allium Essentials

Allium Essentials is an optional Paper server plugin that can send CrowBar a dedicated locator payload. When Allium is installed, CrowBar does not have to rely on vanilla locator waypoints: the server can send the player UUID, position, team color, and visibility state needed for the custom locator bar.

That lets CrowBar keep rendering players who are hidden, sneaking, invisible, or otherwise missing from vanilla waypoint data. Without Allium or the CrowBar server plugin, CrowBar falls back to normal client-visible players, including LAN and integrated-server sessions.

Download Allium on Modrinth

Upstream Inspiration

• Head Locator Bar — the original concept that inspired CrowBar.
• Player Locator Plus — inspired the experience bar markers, label plates, HUD lift, distance fading and the server plugin’s settings.