Damage Numbers: Floating Damage Indicators & Crits

Every hit shows its number: it pops off the mob, rises, and breaks into pixels.

• Critical hits are gold and bigger, with a "!" and a hit marker.
• A colour for each kind of damage: fire, frost, magic, wither, lightning, falling, drowning, explosions. A plain hit is white.
• Healing shows as a green +number.
• The killing blow is red and shatters harder.
• Combos: your own quick hits on one mob count up (x2, x3, x4...), and the numbers stack instead of piling on top of each other.

New: hearts instead of numbers

Set Show as to Heart row or Heart burst and every hit shows the hearts the mob lost, drawn with Minecraft's own heart sprites (half hearts too). Numbers stay the default.

• Heart row: the lost hearts in a row, in rows of ten.
• Heart burst: the hearts fly off the mob. Three styles: Fountain (up and falling), Float (rising slowly, swaying) and Break (each heart shakes, cracks in two and the halves drop).
• Poisoned, withered and frozen mobs get the green, black and blue hearts, like your own.
• Big hits show the count and one heart ("15" + heart), or every heart if you set Most hearts to All.
• Show number puts the damage number next to the hearts too.
• Works next to Health Indicators: numbers and hearts start under its bars, never on top of them.

Honest numbers

The number is the health the mob really lost, after armour. Nothing is guessed: the game already tells every player the health of the mobs around them, the kind of damage, and when a hit was critical.

Options

Change them in game: Mods > Damage Numbers > Config, or type /damagenumbers. Everything is saved in config/vitral_damagenumbers.properties, so a modpack can ship its own setup:

• Show as: Numbers, Heart row or Heart burst. Show number (with hearts), Most hearts (a limit, or All)
• Ending: Shatter (break into pixels), Fade or Vanish. Duration: 0.25x to 4x
• Start at: Auto, Above head, Face, Chest or Above Health Indicators' bars. Height, Size, Distance
• Burst style, Spinning hearts, Hit flash (hearts flash white like your own)
• Healing numbers, other players, yourself in third person, through walls

The game's Screen Effects slider also calms the shaking and the flying pieces.

Client-side

Nothing to install on the server. Works on any server, in single player and on Realms. No texture or font of the game is touched: the numbers are drawn by code.

Versions

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

Crits from Apotheosis also show in gold (1.20.1 and 1.21.1).

More mods

• Kill Shatter: mobs shatter into shards of their own skin instead of the white-smoke death. Four styles.
• Immersive Screens: every screen of the game in a theme (Halloween, Hologram, Winter, Space, Retro Arcade), with small animations.
• Boss Intros: cinematic boss titles and a victory card when you win.
• Boss Bars: animated health bars for every boss.
• Loot Beams: light beams over valuable drops.

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

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