SP VitalView

Version 0.7.0 — Minecraft Java 26.2 / Fabric

SP VitalView combines health information, combat feedback, value-colored loot and block identification in one configurable utility mod by xMrShadyx.

See what you hit, what you collect, and what you are looking at — with a consistent dark interface and personal settings.

Shared personal HUD editor — 0.6.0

Block information and pickup notifications — available through /sphud with SP Core 0.5.0+. Select an element, drag it or adjust X/Y, visibility, scale and opacity, then choose Save layout. Cancel discards the draft; Reset takes effect on Save. No OP or cheats are required. Only installed, registered elements are listed. The editor updates the existing personal settings file and preserves other preferences. Server feature restrictions still apply. These local preferences do not change rewards or gameplay data.

Settings command: /spvitalview

Personal block-panel layout — 0.5.0

Use /sphud to edit Block information through SP Core 0.5.0. Drag the sample, set X/Y, scale or panel opacity, and hide/show the element. No OP or cheats are required. Save layout writes the existing personal VitalView fields; Cancel and Reset remain drafts until saved. Other VitalView preferences are preserved. Existing layouts load without migration. /spvitalview continues to edit the same settings. The global VitalView switch and opacity still apply during gameplay.

Block information and pickup notifications are both registered. Health bars and world-space combat/loot labels retain their existing target-relative controls.

Features

• DeathView: a personal skull, remaining item lifetime and distance at your latest death with dropped items.

• Health above monsters, other players and animals: numbers, a smooth bar, or both.

• Numbers fitted inside the bar, configurable dimensions, and fixed head placement with natural distance scaling.

• Actual damage, confirmed critical hits, healing, repeated regeneration and status-effect notifications.

• Readable combat popups with body/head/crosshair anchors, independent size, offsets and screen-edge clamping.

• Separate visibility for players, monsters, land animals and aquatic animals.

• Four customizable loot tiers: Common → Resources → Valuables → Rare.

• Colored beams, halos, sparkles and per-item category/color overrides.

• Nearby identical stackable drops shown as one visual item with a combined count.

• Exact pickup notifications with icons and names, including partial pickups.

• A targeted-block panel with icon, name, source mod, tool recommendation and minimum tier when known.

• A green check or red cross showing whether the held item satisfies the harvest requirement.

• Draggable pickup and block panels, with size and position controls.

• 0–100% opacity globally and independently for every overlay category.

• English and Bulgarian menus, preview, Save, Cancel and Restore defaults.

This visual utility does not change health, combat, mining requirements, block drops or actual item stacks.

DeathView

A skull marks your latest death with dropped items. It shows distance and the remaining lifetime of the tracked drops. The server follows actual item ages (vanilla lifetime: 5 minutes of loaded ticks), pickups, destruction and item merges. The remaining time refers to the last surviving tracked stack; collecting some drops can shorten it. Unloaded chunks pause item aging, so the display does not incorrectly expire after five minutes of real time. An unlimited-lifetime item displays ∞.

The marker clears automatically when you come within 3 blocks of the original death position, or when all tracked drops disappear. A new death replaces your previous marker. Deaths without dropped items (including keepInventory) create no marker. The marker is personal, is shown only in its dimension, and remains visible through walls to guide recovery. Face its location to see it.

Enable or disable it and adjust size and opacity in /spvitalview → DeathView. Global opacity also applies. Preferences stay in the instance config; recovery data is stored per player inside the current world's data/sp-vitalview/deathview.json, including across server restarts. Install SP VitalView on the server and the client for authoritative DeathView tracking.

In-game previews

DeathView (0.7.0)

English in-game captures from October 22, 2026.

Other overlays

Screenshots captured in-game with the English interface on October 11, 2026 (version 0.4.3).

Block information

Aim at a block within normal interaction range. The indicator updates when the main-hand item changes.

Opacity

Opacity fades text, borders, backgrounds and icons together. Loot opacity includes the beam core, halo and sparkles.

Health and combat

The test target has a deliberately increased maximum of 100 HP. Normal entity health is unchanged. One heart equals 2 HP; a usual ten-heart player has 20 HP.

Loot and pickups

The ×19 label combines separate diamond drops of 12 and 7. A differently named stack remains separate. A partial pickup of four diamonds is reported as +4.

Settings

Run /spvitalview. Categories use two rows to remain readable at the default GUI scale. The bottom preview follows the active category and uses unsaved draft settings. Damage shows a hit, Healing a health gain, Effects a potion effect, Visibility entity groups, Loot sample drops, Pickups a pickup feed, and Blocks the real block-panel drawing style. In Opacity, hover or edit a setting to preview that element. Previews fit inside their reserved area and never spawn entities or emit game events.

SP Core and nearby loot

SP Core 0.5.0 or newer is required. Install it beside SP VitalView on clients and on servers running the mod. Administrators can open /spadmin → SP VitalView → Display settings. All players can still use /spvitalview without operator permissions; these are personal display preferences shared across worlds in the same instance.

Loot counts, light beams and visual grouping now require a clear view of the item itself and a nearby distance, 8 blocks by default. Adjust Loot → Nearby loot range (blocks) from 4 to 16 blocks. The existing Loot distance setting remains an upper limit. Older settings automatically receive the new 8-block default. Labels no longer use only the point above the item to decide visibility, preventing floating numbers above walls hiding the actual drop. Distant or hidden drops retain their normal Minecraft models without VitalView overlays or grouping.

Singleplayer and multiplayer

Singleplayer includes the integrated-server functionality automatically. For complete multiplayer functionality, install the mod and Fabric API on the server and participating clients. Clients without SP VitalView are not sent custom packets. The settings command needs no cheats or operator permissions.

Capability	Client and server	Client only
Mob health	Exact server reports	Health synchronized by vanilla
Other players' exact health	Supported	Hidden
Damage and healing	Individual actual changes	Observed changes; rapid events may combine
Confirmed criticals and only-your-damage filtering	Supported	Unavailable
Effect notifications and active-effect list	Supported	Unavailable
Loot beams, grouping and counts	Supported	Supported
Exact pickup notifications	Supported	Unavailable
Block information and held-tool check	Supported	Supported
Position, size and opacity	Supported	Supported

The menu indicates whether full server data is connected.

Settings and controls

Category	Controls
Health	Master switch; numbers/bar/both; size, width, thickness, animation, names, percentages, absorption and colors
Damage	Damage/criticals; popup anchor, size, offsets, rise, screen clamping, duration, limit and colors; only your damage
Healing	Healing/regeneration popups and color
Effects	Notifications; up to three active effects; remaining time; color
Visibility	Entity categories; independent aquatic animals; combat-only display; range; head gap
Loot	Beams, sparkles, grouping, counts, range, radius, beam height, label size, tier colors and item rules
Pickups	Notifications, drag placement, position, size, duration and maximum rows
Blocks	Panel, drag placement, position, size, source-mod line and tool/status line
Opacity	Overall, health/names, damage/critical, healing, effects, loot light, counts, pickup panel and block panel

• Use − / + for numeric values and page arrows for more controls.
• Save applies and stores the draft. Cancel or Esc in the main menu discards it.
• Restore defaults resets the draft until saved.
• Placement editors return with Done or Esc; press Save in the main menu to keep changes.
• In Loot → Custom item rules, enter an item ID or use the held item, select a tier and optionally enter six hexadecimal RGB digits. Apply to draft, then Save.

Opacity

Each value ranges from 0% to 100%. Overall opacity multiplies the category value: 50% overall and 50% health gives 25% health opacity. At 0%, the selected overlay is hidden. Settings controls remain readable.

Opacity affects complete SP VitalView elements, including text, icons and existing background alpha. Vanilla mobs, blocks, dropped-item models, the hotbar and other mods' interfaces remain unchanged. Damage and criticals share a value; healing and effects have separate values. Existing loot sparkles respond to changes too.

Block and tool information

The panel follows Minecraft's actual crosshair target and disappears when aiming at the sky or an entity. It does not reveal blocks through walls. Names follow the game language. The source line uses installed mod metadata when the namespace matches a mod ID; otherwise it shows the namespace.

The check/cross reports harvest suitability, not guaranteed drops. Silk Touch, loot tables, block state and server rules can affect the result. Blocks needing no specific harvest tool may show a recommended faster tool. Unbreakable blocks are identified separately.

Minimum tiers are derived from which standard tools can harvest the current block. Modded requirements may have no standard tier label, but the held item's normal harvest check is still used. Creative mode does not override this informational Survival check.

Health and popups

Bars stay above heads and shrink with world perspective. Damage/healing/effect popups use an independent GUI size; their shared anchor and offsets do not move the health bar. Screen clamping preserves close-range visibility and shows the newest rows that fit.

Damage reports actual HP lost after defenses. Absorption is displayed separately. Full-health healing creates no popup; overhealing reports only the real gain. Regeneration reports each observed gain.

Loot values and grouping

Tier	Default color	Examples
Common	White	Dirt and ordinary items
Resources	Green	Iron ingots, coal, redstone, logs, ores
Valuables	Gold	Diamonds, emeralds, golden apples
Rare	Purple	Nether stars, elytra, enchanted items, ancient debris

These are configurable value presets, not economy prices. Per-item rules take priority. Beams are visual effects and do not change block lighting.

Grouping affects rendering only. Actual entities, stack limits, ownership, despawning and pickup rules stay unchanged. Only stackable items with identical components group within the selected radius (default 1.5 blocks). Different names/enchantments remain separate; solid obstacles prevent grouping across a wall. Disable grouping to restore vanilla item copies.

The pickup feed reports actual full or partial pickups. Recent identical pickups combine; the newest row appears at the bottom.

Useful ranges

Setting	Range
Health / loot distance	4–64 blocks
Health size	25–200%
Bar width / thickness	40–120 / 4–16 local units
Popup size	50–200%
Popup X / Y offsets	−300 to 300 / −200 to 200 GUI pixels
Popup duration	10–100 ticks
Group radius	0.25–2 blocks
Beam height	25–200% of tier height
Pickup / block panel size	50–150%, fitted to the viewport
Pickup / block position	0–100% of available screen space
Pickup duration / rows	20–400 ticks / 1–8 rows
Opacity	0–100%

At normal speed, 20 ticks equal one second. Bar units represent 0.025 blocks at 100% size; combined mode adds space for its numbers.

Configuration and compatibility

Settings belong to the Minecraft instance, not to an individual world or server. Click Save to persist all display preferences. Copy the config/sp-vitalview folder to another instance to share them (with the game closed). Separate launcher profiles with different game directories have separate settings.

On first launch, existing config/sp-vitalview.json settings are migrated automatically, preserving the original file. The new file takes priority on later launches. Fresh installations create the settings file automatically. This mod has no wallet, purchases or persistent player progression; pickup notifications are temporary and cleared when changing worlds.

Settings are stored in config/sp-vitalview/settings.json across worlds in the same profile. Invalid files are preserved, defaults are used and the menu shows a notice. A successful Save writes valid settings. RGB configuration colors use decimal integers from 0 to 16777215; the item-rule editor accepts hexadecimal RGB.

Overlays respect F1 and line of sight. Health excludes the local player, spectators and entities invisible to the player. Hostile aquatic mobs remain under Monsters. Standard modded health/effect systems are supported; mods bypassing vanilla methods may need integration.

Health snapshots run every five server ticks; individual changes are sent each tick. Processing is bounded to 256 nearby living entities/events and 256 nearby drops. Excess notifications may be omitted under extreme load.

0.7.0

• Add DeathView with a skull, actual tracked-item lifetime, distance, per-player world persistence and settings preview.
• Clear on arrival or when drops disappear; follow merged stacks.
• Preserve the shared SP Core HUD editor introduced in 0.6.0.

0.5.0

• Integrate block information with the personal Core /sphud editor, preserving existing settings.
• Require Core 0.4.0 and keep the original VitalView settings menu.

0.4.5

• Require SP Core and support its existing unified Display settings entry.
• Restrict loot overlays and grouping to visible nearby drops; add a separate 4–16 block range (default 8).
• Check visibility at the actual drop and recheck distance when drawing, preventing distant and wall-hidden count labels.

0.4.3

• Store shared settings in a dedicated config/sp-vitalview folder, with automatic migration and first-launch creation.
• Preserve existing settings and keep preferences shared across worlds and servers in the same instance.

0.4.2

• Added the official pixel-heart and health-bar icon to Fabric metadata and this README.
• All gameplay features and compatibility requirements remain the same as 0.4.1.

0.4.1

• Replaced the always-visible Zombie health sample with category-specific live previews.
• Made the Opacity preview follow the visible/hovered/edited setting.
• Kept previews isolated from live settings and clipped to the available menu area.

0.4.0

• Styled block panel with icon, source mod, tool recommendation, minimum tier and held-tool check.
• Draggable block placement, size and line visibility controls.
• Global and per-element opacity, including icons, beams, halos and sparkles.
• Two-row settings categories and refreshed English/Bulgarian translations.
• Sharing-ready documentation with real screenshots.

0.3.0

Configurable close-range popups; value-colored loot; visual grouping/counts; exact pickups; drag placement; per-item rules.

0.2.0

Perspective-correct head anchors, outlined bars, inside-bar numbers, aquatic visibility and expanded size controls.

0.1.0

Initial health, damage/critical, healing/regeneration, effect and command-opened settings release.