Identify - What Am I Looking At? Block & Mob Info
Have you ever stared at a block or a mob in Minecraft and wished the game would just tell you what you are dealing with? That is exactly the problem Identify - What Am I Looking At? Block & Mob Info solves. This lightweight client-side mod adds a small, movable panel that shows the icon, name, and owning mod of whatever sits under your crosshair, plus a surprising amount of extra intel about blocks, mobs, items, and your own gear.
What the Identify Mod Shows You
The core of the mod is the block and entity panel. Point your crosshair at anything within a configurable range and the panel tells you what it is and which mod added it, which is invaluable when you run large modpacks. The panel displays at most four detail lines, so it stays compact instead of flooding your screen.
Mob Intel
- Health values, including armor
- Baby grow-up and breeding timers
- A pet's owner name
- A villager's profession and level
- A horse's speed and jump height
- Active effects and the item a mob is holding
Block Details
- Crop growth stages and redstone power levels
- The best tool and tier to mine the block
- What a spawner spawns, and a beacon's tier, range, and effects
- A beehive's honey level
Item Tooltips and Equipment Comparison
Item tooltips gain useful context: remaining durability with a percentage, hunger and saturation values for food, and how many items a given fuel smelts. Hold Shift over armor or a weapon and the mod compares it with what you have equipped, showing lines such as +2 Armor or +2 Toughness.
Supported Versions and Loaders
Identify is available for Minecraft 26.1 through 26.3 and runs on both Fabric and NeoForge. On Fabric it pairs with Mod Menu for a settings screen, while NeoForge uses its built-in config screen. Everything is client-side only, so there is nothing to install on a server.
Some information depends on where you play. Exact grow-up and breeding timers, along with fuel values on 26.3, come from the integrated server, so they appear in singleplayer and on a LAN host. On other servers a baby animal simply shows as "Baby". Servers do not send other mobs' active effects to clients, so that line only appears in singleplayer and for yourself. A pet's owner is looked up in the player list, so the name only shows while the owner is online; otherwise the panel displays "Tamed".
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How to Install Identify
Fabric Installation
- Install Fabric Loader for your version of Minecraft.
- Place Fabric API and the Fabric Identify jar for your version in your mods folder.
- Start the game.
- Optional: add Mod Menu to get a settings screen under Mods, Identify, Configure.
NeoForge Installation
- Install NeoForge for your version of Minecraft.
- Place the NeoForge Identify jar for your version in your mods folder.
- Start the game.
- The settings screen is available from the mod list under Mods, Identify, Config.
Learning how to install the mod takes only a few minutes, and once it is running you can fine-tune everything. Two sliders move the panel anywhere on screen, from the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner, at any GUI scale. You can toggle blocks, entities, the icon, detail lines, the mod name, and item comparison, and adjust the detection range and position to taste.
Why It Belongs in Your Modpack
Identify - What Am I Looking At? Block & Mob Info for Minecraft turns guesswork into instant answers. Whether you are checking a horse's jump height before a race, confirming which mod added a strange block, or comparing a new chestplate against your equipped one, the information is always one glance away. It is compact, configurable, and entirely client-side, making it a safe addition to any world. Download it, install it for your loader, and never wonder what you are looking at again.
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