Heartline - Health Bars & Damage Numbers
Combat in Minecraft has always been a bit of a guessing game. You swing your sword, watch a mob flash red, and hope you are making progress. Heartline - Health Bars & Damage Numbers removes that guesswork entirely. This client-side mod draws a clean health bar above every mob, floats damage numbers when you land a hit, and gives you a target panel that tells you exactly how many more swings it will take to finish the job.
What Heartline Does
At its core, Heartline - Health Bars & Damage Numbers is about information. Instead of eyeballing a mob's remaining health, you get a crisp bar rendered flat on your screen. Because it is drawn as a screen overlay rather than a world-space element, the bar stays sharp and readable whether the mob is two blocks away or at the edge of your render distance.
The mod supports Minecraft 1.20 through 26.3 on Fabric, 1.21 through 26.3 on NeoForge, and 1.20.1 on Forge. That spread covers most players still running older worlds as well as those on the newest releases. If you play on Fabric, Heartline also plays nicely with Mod Menu, which gives you a proper settings screen instead of a config file.
Health Bars and Visual Styles
You are not stuck with one look. Heartline ships with five bar styles: Flat, Segmented, Slim, Pip, and Outline. Segmented is the default and breaks the bar into one notch per heart, which many players find the most readable during fast fights.
- Colors by health shift from green to yellow to red as a mob takes damage.
- Colors by mob type use red for hostiles, yellow for neutrals, green for passives, blue for players, and purple for pets and bosses.
- The damage trail keeps the health a hit removed visible for a moment before it drains away.
- Bars flash white on a hit and glow green when a mob is healed.
You can also control when bars appear. Options include always, only when a mob is hurt, only in combat, or only on the mob under your crosshair. Bars hide behind walls by default, and you can hide entire mob types by looking at one and pressing a key.
Damage Numbers, Combos, and the Target Panel
Damage numbers float up beside whatever you hit. Critical hits appear in gold with an exclamation mark, while heals show in green. When you land several quick hits on the same mob, Heartline stacks them into a single growing number with a hit count, so you see something like "20.3 x3" instead of a cluttered pile of digits.
The target panel is the feature that changes how you fight. It shows the name, health, and armor of the mob you are looking at or currently fighting, plus a hits-to-kill estimate based on whatever you are holding. Switch from a sword to an axe mid-fight and the estimate updates instantly. When it reads "1 more hit!", it turns gold, which is a surprisingly satisfying signal.
If you would rather skip manual mod management, the foxygame.net launcher handles the whole setup for Heartline - Health Bars & Damage Numbers in a single click, pulling the correct build for your loader and keeping it updated automatically. For players who prefer doing it by hand, the process is still simple. Learning how to install is mostly a matter of matching the right jar to your mod loader.
How to Install Heartline - Health Bars & Damage Numbers
Fabric
Install Fabric Loader for your Minecraft version, then place Fabric API and the Fabric build of Heartline in your mods folder. Add Mod Menu if you want a settings screen under Mods, Heartline, Configure.
NeoForge
Install NeoForge for your version, drop the NeoForge jar into the mods folder, and launch the game. The config screen lives under Mods, Heartline, Config.
Forge
Forge support targets Minecraft 1.20.1. Install Forge, add the Forge jar, and start the game. Settings are in the same Mods menu location.
Both keybinds, toggling all bars and hiding bars for the mob you are looking at, are unbound by default. Set them in Options, Controls, Key Binds, Heartline, or through the Key Binds button inside the mod's own settings.
Pet Alerts and Quality of Life
Tamed pets always display their bars, and a warning appears when one drops below a configurable health threshold, 30 percent by default. That single feature has saved more wolves and cats than most players care to admit.
Everything is client-side. There is nothing to install on a server, so Heartline works on any multiplayer world you join. Changes apply immediately and save when you close the settings screen, which also includes a Reset to Defaults button and a counter showing how many mob types you have hidden.
Final Thoughts
Heartline - Health Bars & Damage Numbers fills a gap Mojang never addressed. It turns vague combat feedback into precise, readable data without cluttering your screen. Whether you download Heartline - Health Bars & Damage Numbers for a hardcore survival run or just want cleaner fights on a server, the mod delivers exactly what its name promises.