Ping for it!

Ping For It!

Show your friends exactly which one you mean.

“Look at that phantom over there. A hat!”
“...Which one?”

And now, you can send a ping on it!

Ping For It lets you point out mobs, blocks, and dropped items with colored outlines. Tap to send a quick ping, or hold to choose what you want to say.

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Features

Tap to ping. Hold to communicate.

Details for target details, and Inventory to track items in chests.

• Target-aware pings for items, entities, blocks, containers, and locations
• Different ping types
• Colored entity & block outlines, fits vanilla glowing
• Block outlines, including non-full blocks
• Target names, directional indicators, team colors, and positional sounds
• Double click for quick DANGER ping
• Display or select certain properties of a block or mob (can be disabled)
• rate limiting (can be disabled)
• Track item counts in a container (can be disabled)
• Long-Press Compatibility Mode for clients that report a held button as rapid repeated clicks
• Active mod support for mods in the list:
  • Create (Neoforge 1.21.1)
  • Sable (Neoforge 1.21.1)
  • Refined Storage 2 (Neoforge 1.21.1)
  • Cyclic (1.21.1)
• Start a Feature Request on github for more mod supports!

Controls

Ping target

The default ping binding is Mouse Button 5 and can be changed from Minecraft's Controls menu.

• Short press: create the target's default ping
• Hold: open the selection wheel

The target are captured as soon as the key is pressed - try selecting phantoms' details!

Configuration

Open the settings screen through the configured keybind, Mod Menu, or:

/pingforit config

Channel controls are available through:

/pingforit channel

Long-Press Compatibility Mode

Enable this mode if you find that you send a lot of pings when holding the pinging key.

Some key conflicts or input implementations turn a physical hold into a rapid sequence of short clicks. Compatibility Mode recognizes these sequences as a virtual hold.

Compatibility

Ping For It supports Minecraft 1.21.1 on:

• Fabric (requires Fabric API)
• Forge
• NeoForge

Q&A

Wheel Control

Q: I often accidentally enter the Back branch when making a selection in the wheel!

A: Try set Require Sustained Hover to Return to ON, and extend the required time if needed. This decrease chances of accidently backing.

About this mod

Q: Why this mod even if we got Ping Wheels?

A: It's better to just a click, rather than describe a special modded beautiful Phantom with a hat as "Look at one in the sky. No, not this one, the one on the left. Dude, that's too left! ON NO WHY YOU KILLED IT?!"

After this I started to make the mod. Then I thought, "If we can highlight phantoms, why not chests? Why not other mods? Why not create cogwheel? Why not provide my intend about the target?" and the mod gets more and more complex, finally I decided to make it public. I believe that there are people who suffered from the same situation.

Q: Why no compatibility with original mod?

A: Reworking on network protocol makes the mod better for all those extra functions & configs, and not removing old protocol will make the program more complex than I can control.

Q: More Minecraft versions?

A: On its way! Planned to support more versions after core functions are stable

Future plan

• Better Channel config
• Multiple presets of configs
• Improve Distant Horizon Compatibility
• Immersive Portal Compatibility
• Icons for different ping types
• Players can respond to pings
• Assest rework

Notice

This mod is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ping Wheel's developer.

Credits & Special Thanks

Special thanks to Luken, the original creator of Ping Wheel.

Ping For It is an independent fork built upon their excellent work. This project would not exist without the original mod, its design, and its open-source foundation. Thanks also to RXJpaw and everyone who contributed to Ping Wheel.

Thank SHARK_oi for selecting the icon when I'm hesitating - I'm bad on those things.