Stat Check
Every Minecraft player knows the pain of hovering over a new sword or chestplate and wondering whether it actually beats what you already have equipped. Stat Check solves that problem in one elegant stroke. This client-side add-on adds detailed tooltips to items, showing their core characteristics and, crucially, whether they are better or worse than your current gear. No more mental math, no more guesswork at the crafting table.
What Stat Check Does
At its heart, Stat Check for Minecraft is about information at a glance. When you hover over an item, a tooltip appears listing relevant stats. Arrows next to each value tell you instantly whether that stat is higher or lower than the item you currently have equipped. Green up, red down, and you know in a fraction of a second whether a drop is an upgrade or vendor trash.
The add-on covers far more than weapons and armor. Each item type reveals a different characteristic, and the full list is impressively thorough:
- Anvil: Durability
- Iron Ingot: Harvest Level
- Golden Pickaxe: Mining Speed
- Iron Sword: Attack Damage
- Shield: Knockback Resistance
- Feather: Attack Speed
- Iron Chestplate: Armor
- Diamond Chestplate: Armor Resistance
- Enchanted Book: Enchantibility
- Boots: Speed
- Gray Explosion: Attack Knockback
- Heart: Health
- Clover: Luck
- Hunger Shank: Saturation
- Apple: Hunger
- Diamond Pickaxe: Hardness (Block)
- TNT: Blast Resistance (Block)
- Torch: Light Level (Block)
- Fire: Flammability (Block)
That breadth means Stat Check is useful in survival, creative building, and even map-making, where block properties like blast resistance and flammability matter enormously.
Supported Versions and Loaders
Stat Check is built for the Fabric loader, which keeps it lightweight and compatible with a huge range of other client-side add-ons. It has been maintained across multiple Minecraft releases, so whether you are running an older 1.16-era world or a more recent 1.20 build, there is very likely a matching file. Before you download Stat Check, check the version list carefully and grab the build that lines up with your exact game version, since mismatched files are the most common cause of a mod simply not loading.
If you would rather skip the manual file hunting entirely, the foxygame.net launcher bundles Stat Check directly into its curated add-on catalog, letting you tick a box and have it installed alongside the correct Fabric version automatically.
How to Install Stat Check
Step 1: Install Fabric
Stat Check requires Fabric Loader. Run the official Fabric installer, choose your Minecraft version, and let it create a new profile in your launcher.
Step 2: Get Fabric API
Most Fabric add-ons, Stat Check included, depend on Fabric API. Place that file in your mods folder first.
Step 3: Add Stat Check
Drop the Stat Check file into the same mods folder. On Windows this is typically found under your user profile in the AppData roaming directory; on macOS it lives inside the Application Support folder.
Step 4: Launch and Test
Start the Fabric profile, join a world, and hover over any item. If tooltips appear with arrows, you are done.
For players who prefer a smoother ride, launchers that handle version compatibility and auto-updates remove almost all of this friction. When Stat Check receives a patch for a new Minecraft release, an auto-updating launcher swaps in the fresh build without you touching a single file.
Why It Belongs in Your Modpack
Stat Check is one of those rare quality-of-life additions that quietly improves every session. It speeds up looting, makes enchanting decisions clearer, and turns block selection into an informed choice rather than a guess. Because it is client-side, you can use it on servers without asking for permission, and it will not interfere with other players.
Custom add-on developers can even extend it, since the project publishes documentation for creating new tooltip entries, meaning the stat list can grow with your own packs.
Final Thoughts
Stat Check delivers exactly what its name promises: a fast, readable check on any item's stats before you commit to it. Install it once, and you will wonder how you ever compared gear without those little arrows. Grab the right build for your version, pair it with Fabric API, and let the tooltips do the thinking.