Fresh Armor Bar

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Fresh Armor Bar upgrades Minecraft's vanilla armor HUD with a cleaner, more readable and more responsive design.

The default armor bar always looks almost the same, regardless of the equipment being worn. Fresh Armor Bar gives each armor material its own visual identity, displays enchantments and armor trims directly on the HUD, and provides immediate visual feedback when armor is damaged or repaired.

The mod is designed to feel like a natural extension of Minecraft rather than a completely different interface. It preserves the vanilla style, remains lightweight and client-side, and allows its visual feedback effects to be configured individually.

A quick look at how Fresh Armor Bar changes the vanilla armor HUD.

ENCHANTMENT GLINT

ARMOR FEEDBACK

Spoiler

EXPLOSION DAMAGE

FALL DAMAGE

FIRE DAMAGE

NORMAL DAMAGE

PROJECTILE DAMAGE

MENDING REPAIR

Each material keeps its own visual identity, while armor damage and restoration effects provide immediate feedback without compromising HUD readability.

🛡️ MATERIAL-BASED ARMOR ICONS

Each armor material has its own dedicated HUD appearance.
Leather, chainmail, iron, gold, diamond, netherite and turtle shell armor are immediately recognizable while preserving Minecraft's original visual style.

💥 ARMOR FEEDBACK

Armor icons react whenever equipped gear loses durability. Normal hits, heavy durability loss, fire, explosions, projectiles and fall damage each produce dedicated visual effects.
When Mending restores armor durability, a separate restoration effect is displayed directly on the HUD. Every feedback effect can be enabled or disabled individually.

✨ ENCHANTMENT GLINT

Enchanted armor displays a dedicated visual glint directly on the armor bar.
The effect makes enchanted equipment easier to recognize while remaining consistent with the vanilla Minecraft aesthetic.

🔨 ARMOR TRIMS

Armor trims are displayed directly on the HUD icons, preserving their materials, patterns and colors.
Trimmed armor remains visually recognizable without changing the original purpose of the vanilla armor bar.

🎨 DYED LEATHER ARMOR

Dyed leather armor icons reflect the selected leather color directly on the HUD.
Leather color, armor trims and enchantment effects can be displayed together.

💪 EXTENDED ARMOR VALUES

Fresh Armor Bar is not limited to Minecraft's standard 20 armor points.
The HUD can display armor values up to 60 points, making it suitable for modded equipment and heavily armored gameplay.

🪽 ELYTRA INDICATOR

When an Elytra is equipped, Fresh Armor Bar displays a dedicated icon in the armor HUD.
Compatible Elytra accessory slots are also detected when supported Trinkets-family mods are installed.

⚙️ IN-GAME CONFIGURATION

Fresh Armor Bar includes a dedicated configuration screen for controlling its visual feedback effects.
When Mod Menu is installed, the configuration screen can be opened directly from the Mods menu.
Damage types and the Mending effect can be enabled or disabled individually without manually editing configuration files.

🧩 MODDED ARMOR SUPPORT

Fresh Armor Bar can display dedicated icons for armor materials added by other mods.
When a specific texture is unavailable, the mod uses a visual fallback so that unknown armor materials remain clearly visible.

🖌️ RESOURCE PACK SUPPORT

Armor icons, trims, enchantment effects and supported modded materials can be customized through standard Minecraft resource packs.
This allows resource-pack creators to adapt Fresh Armor Bar to custom visual styles and modded equipment.

⚡ LIGHTWEIGHT BY DESIGN

Fresh Armor Bar is fully client-side and does not add new gameplay systems.
Its rendering system is designed to remain lightweight, responsive and compatible during normal gameplay.

Fresh Armor Bar is fully client-side and does not require server-side installation.

📦 VERSION COMPATIBILITY

Minecraft Version	Loader	Status
1.20.1	Fabric	✅ Supported
1.21.1	Fabric	✅ Supported
1.21.11	Fabric	✅ Supported
26.1.2	Fabric	✅ Supported
26.2	Fabric	✅ Supported

Older Minecraft versions may remain available for download, but they are no longer actively maintained.

🧩 MOD COMPATIBILITY

Fresh Armor Bar includes dedicated support for the following modded armor sets:

Mod	Supported Armor Icon
Advanced Netherite
Deeper and Darker

Other modded armor materials are supported through dedicated textures and automatic fallback icons.

Compatible Elytra accessory slots are also detected when the appropriate Trinkets-family mod is installed. Additional armor sets can be supported through resource packs.

⚙️ IN-GAME SETTINGS

Visual feedback effects can be enabled or disabled individually. This includes normal armor damage, heavy durability loss, fire, explosions, projectiles, fall damage and Mending restoration.

When Mod Menu is installed, the configuration screen can be opened directly from the Mods menu.

🎨 RESOURCE PACKS

Fresh Armor Bar can be customized through standard Minecraft resource packs.

Resource packs can replace armor icons, trim textures, enchantment effects and supported modded material icons.

For texture paths, file names, dimensions and implementation examples, see the complete Resource Pack Guide on GitHub.

📌 USAGE AND CREDIT

You are free to create and publish resource packs for Fresh Armor Bar.

I only ask that any public release, whether on Modrinth, CurseForge or any other platform, clearly credits and links back to Fresh Armor Bar.

This helps people find the original mod and supports the project.

Is Fresh Armor Bar client-side?

Yes. Fresh Armor Bar only needs to be installed on the client and can be used on servers that do not have the mod installed.

Does it change gameplay?

No. Fresh Armor Bar only changes how armor information is displayed.

Does it support armor trims?

Yes. Armor trims are displayed directly on the armor HUD, including trims applied to dyed leather armor.

Does it support armor values above 20?

Yes. Fresh Armor Bar can display up to 60 armor points.

Does it support modded armor?

Yes. The mod supports dedicated textures for modded armor materials and uses a fallback icon when a specific texture is unavailable.

Can resource packs customize the armor icons?

Yes. Armor icons, trims, enchantment effects and modded armor materials can be customized through resource packs.

Designed & developed by

💠 ZeroXXII 💠

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✨ Suggestions and feedback are always welcome ✨

💙 Thanks to everyone who downloads, tests and supports Fresh Armor Bar 💙