MobHealthDisplay
A lightweight plugin that displays mob health as heart icons above their head when hit by a player — just like the classic damage indicators, but without needing a resource pack.
✨ Features
Installation
When a player hits a mob, the plugin temporarily replaces the mob's name tag with colored hearts:
A lightweight plugin that displays mob health as heart icons above their head when hit by a player — just like the classic damage indicators, but without needing a resource pack.
✨ Features
- No Resource Pack Required — Uses Unicode heart symbols that work out of the box
- Real-time Health Updates — Hearts update with each hit to reflect current health
- Smart Scaling — High-health mobs (like bosses) scale down to a readable 10 hearts
- Preserves Custom Names — Named mobs get their name back after the display fades
- Configurable — Adjust display duration and max hearts shown
- Lightweight — No dependencies, minimal performance impact
Code (YAML):
# MobHealthDisplay Configuration
# How long the health display stays visible (in ticks, 20 ticks = 1 second)
display-duration-ticks : 60
# Maximum number of heart icons to display
# Mobs with more health will have their hearts scaled down
max-hearts-display : 10
# How long the health display stays visible (in ticks, 20 ticks = 1 second)
display-duration-ticks : 60
# Maximum number of heart icons to display
# Mobs with more health will have their hearts scaled down
max-hearts-display : 10
Installation
- Download the jar file
- Drop it into your server's plugins folder
- Restart your server
- Done! No setup required.
- Paper 1.21+ (or compatible forks)
- Java 21+
When a player hits a mob, the plugin temporarily replaces the mob's name tag with colored hearts:
- ❤❤❤❤❤ — Filled hearts (current health)
- ❤❤❤❤❤ — Empty hearts (missing health)
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Spigot — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
MobHealthDisplay is a free Minecraft Java mod. Downloaded 64 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.