Overflowing Bars is a utility mod designed to enhance the player's heads-up display by expanding the visual representation of health, armor, and armor toughness beyond the default limits set by Minecraft. This mod addresses the common issue where players exceeding vanilla stat caps have their information truncated or displayed in a confusing manner. By introducing a layered bar system, Overflowing Bars ensures that even extremely high values for these crucial stats remain visible and easily interpretable, preventing the need for players to memorize complex color-coding systems or rely on external tools to understand their true defensive capabilities. It provides a clean and compact solution for players who enjoy pushing the boundaries of game mechanics and require a HUD that can keep pace with their augmented stats. The core functionality of Overflowing Bars revolves around its innovative stacking mechanism for the health, armor, and armor toughness bars. Instead of simply adding more rows of icons, which can clutter the screen, the mod intelligently layers these bars on top of each other. This approach maintains a compact HUD, even when dealing with significantly increased stats. A row counter is integrated to clearly indicate the number of stacked layers for each stat, eliminating any guesswork. Furthermore, the mod introduces a dedicated bar for armor toughness, a vital defensive attribute that is not natively displayed in the vanilla HUD, thus providing players with a more complete picture of their character's survivability. The visual design prioritizes clarity, utilizing vanilla colors for the base layer and a single highlight color for stacked segments to avoid visual confusion. This mod is designed for broad compatibility across various Minecraft versions and mod loaders. It officially supports Minecraft versions 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, and the corresponding versions 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, and 26.2. Overflowing Bars is compatible with Fabric, Forge, and NeoForged mod loaders. Importantly, this mod is required on the client side only and is unsupported on the server, meaning players will need to install it on their own game installations to experience its benefits. For full functionality, especially concerning values beyond vanilla limits, it is recommended to also install AttributeFix by DarkhaxDev.
