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Essential Chat
Customizable HUD and chat tweaks — coordinates, FPS, clock, ping, direction, armor display, chat highlights, and message stacking. All toggleable.
⬇ Download on Modrinth
*A clean HUD & chat mod for Minecraft 1.21. * A slick info HUD, smart chat features, and a live armor display — all toggleable.
✨ Features
📊 Info HUD
Toggle exactly what you want to see:
- 🕐 Real Clock — your real-world time
- 🌙 MC Clock — in-game time (Day / Sunset / Night / Sunrise)
- 🎯 FPS — color-coded performance
- 🌍 Coordinates — X / Y / Z
- 🌳 Biome — current biome name
- 📶 Ping — your latency, color-coded
- 🧭 Direction — N / S / E / W facing
- 📅 Day Counter — days survived
- 🖱️ CPS — clicks per second (left & right)
- ⚡ Speed — blocks per second
- 🛠️ Item Durability — held item's remaining durability
❤️ Armor Display
- See your 4 armor pieces and their durability next to the hotbar
- ⚠️ Low-armor warning — alerts you when a piece drops below 10%
💬 Chat Features
- 🔔 Chat Highlight — get alerted when someone says your name
- 📚 Message Stacking — repeated messages merge into one with a
(x2)counter - 🎬 Chat Animation — smooth slide + fade as messages appear
- 🧹 Clear Chat — wipe your chat in one click
Chat Animation Preview:
Main Toggle HUD MENU:
Top Left Corner Customizable UI:
⌨️ Keybinds
- O — open the menu
- H — toggle the HUD
- N — copy the last chat message
- J — copy your coordinates
- Delete — clear chat
(All rebindable in Minecraft's Controls settings.)
📦 Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21.*
- Fabric Loader + Fabric API
Built for 1.21 to 1.21.11 —
About
Made by NotZyvex. Found a bug or have a feature idea? Drop it in the comments or our Discord!
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3
- 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 Modrinth — 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.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as essentialchat-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 699 KB
- Download link checked 23 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.