ZFD Utilities

ZFD's Utilities

ZFD's Utilities is a customizable client-side toolkit for players who want more control, cleaner visuals, and better diagnostics without stacking a bunch of separate small utility mods.

Use it for everyday gameplay, content creation, creative building, server testing, and troubleshooting ping, frame spikes, or mouse stutter. Most tools can be adjusted in the config screen, controlled with commands, or assigned to your own keybinds.

Highlights

Custom HUD Tools

• Compact Simple HUD overlay
• Coordinates, dimension, facing direction, FPS, ping, and health
• Equipment display for armor, held items, offhand, durability, and stack counts
• Custom text color, background, scale, alignment, and screen position
• Quick toggle support

Player Heads in Chat

• Player skin heads beside chat messages, including hat layers
• Subtle vanilla-style shadows for a natural Minecraft look
• Supports ranked chat and nicknames when the sender can be identified
• Passive, client-side detection using information Minecraft already receives—no server queries or additional gameplay packets
• Enabled by default; toggle in settings or with /zfdutils chatheads on|off|toggle

Auto Respawn

• Optional automatic respawning, disabled by default
• Adjustable 0–30 second delay, with 0 seconds for instant respawn
• Click the death-screen countdown to pause or resume
• Respects Hardcore mode and server-controlled respawning

Some multiplayer servers may prohibit automated respawning; check their rules.

Ping and Network Visibility

• Colored ping display in the HUD and player list
• Ping shown beside names, near the vanilla ping icon, or both
• Optional ping on in-world player nametags
• Ping category summaries for quickly seeing how a server is performing
• /pingcounts for a quick ping breakdown

Camera and Visual Control

• Smooth zoom with configurable strength and timing
• Optional scroll zoom while holding the zoom key
• Perspective freelook for third-person camera control without rotating your player
• Optional own-nametag display in perspective views
• Client-side visual time override
• Client-side clear weather override for hiding rain and thunder
• First-person shield height adjustment

Entity Hider

• Hide other players client-side for cleaner visuals
• Useful for recording, screenshots, crowded lobbies, and focused gameplay
• Allowlist players by target, name, or UUID
• Optional radius mode so nearby players can be hidden only within a chosen range

Performance and Diagnostics

• Frametime graph overlay
• Frametime spike logging
• Mouse stutter diagnostics
• PC specs logging helper
• Configurable frame spike threshold
• Logs are written to the normal Minecraft logs folder

Gameplay and Organization

• Keep crouch active through inventories and menus
• Creative-only fly speed multiplier
• Optional singleplayer and multiplayer play-screen folders
• Folder support is opt-in so every player can build their own layout

Built to Be Customized

ZFD's Utilities is not meant to force one setup on everyone. Fresh installs use clean defaults, advanced config sections start collapsed, and extra toggle-style keybinds are available but left unbound so you can assign the controls you actually want.

Default bound keys include:

• H - Toggle Entity Hider
• Grave / Backtick - Toggle Simple HUD
• Z - Zoom
• Left Alt - Hold Perspective Freelook

Other tools can be bound manually in Minecraft's Controls menu.

Useful For

• Video production and cleaner recordings
• Screenshots and cinematic shots
• Creative building and testing
• Server testing and ping checks
• Diagnosing frame pacing or mouse stutter
• Everyday quality-of-life gameplay
• Organizing worlds and servers without a large mod setup

Creator Note

ZFD's Utilities is also used in ZFDfilmsMC videos: https://youtube.com/@zfdfilmsmc

Notes

• This is a client-side Fabric mod.
• Server install is not required for the main utilities.
• Visual time, clear weather, and entity hiding only affect your local client.
• Creative fly speed only applies in creative mode/worlds.
• Fabric API is required.
• Mod Menu and Cloth Config are recommended for the best config experience.

License and Modpacks

ZFD's Utilities uses a custom permission license. You may use it for personal gameplay, content creation, recording, video production, screenshots, testing, and diagnostics.

Modpacks may include the official, unmodified mod file if they credit ZFDfilms and link back to this Modrinth project page. Standalone reuploads, selling the mod, publishing modified versions, or claiming ownership are not allowed without explicit permission.