BetterSpeedHUD

A speed HUD mod for Minecraft Forge 1.20.1/1.21.1: displays a sleek speed head-up display (HUD) showing speed, gear, and a speed bar at the bottom‑right corner of the screen when riding a vehicle or gliding with an elytra. All elements can be freely adjusted in‑game.

A Better HUD mod to show your speed on your screen. Highly customizable. @WYH827

Features

• Real‑time speed display: measures speed based on the player's actual coordinate displacement (blocks/second × 72 converted to km/h). Compatible with vanilla vehicles and modded vehicles (e.g., MrCrayfish's vehicle mod). Elytra gliding is also supported.
• Visual HUD: D gear on the left, three‑digit large speed number in the center (leading zeros shown in grey), km/h on the right, and a speed bar below.
• Adjustable max speed (default 200): the speed bar always displays the percentage of speed / max speed, capped at 100% when exceeded.
• Toggle for actual speed: when disabled, speed stops increasing once it reaches the max speed (pegs the meter); when enabled, the actual speed is always shown, while the bar still caps at 100% of the max speed.
• Two fonts: Minecraft default font / Modern bitmap font (switchable in‑game with one click).
• In‑game configuration screen (default key H):
  • The overall HUD and individual elements (D, digits, km/h, speed bar) each have independent position, size, and visibility controls;
  • Adjust via drag‑and‑drop, arrow keys, scroll wheel, or shortcuts;
  • A "Hide Buttons" button in the top‑right corner hides all UI buttons for unobstructed viewing and positioning;
  • One‑click switch to Modern preset / restore defaults;
  • Max speed +/‑ buttons.
• Display conditions: show on vehicle / show on elytra / always show (when "always" is enabled, the first two are locked to on).
• HUD master toggle: can completely hide the HUD at any time.
• Safe configuration writing: dragging and adjustments only modify in‑memory values; the config file is written only when the settings screen is closed, avoiding frequent disk writes.

Installation

1. Requires Minecraft 1.20.1 + Forge 47.x (client‑side), Java 17.
2. Place BetterSpeedHUD-1.1.jar into the .minecraft/mods folder.
3. Launch the game, enter a world, and ride a vehicle or glide with an elytra to see the HUD.

In‑Game Configuration

Press H to open the settings screen (can also be accessed via the Mod Menu's "Config" button).

Key Controls

Button Descriptions

• First row: Show on vehicle / Show on elytra / Global HUD (always show HUD)
• Second row: Toggle visibility for D / Digits / km/h / Speed bar individually
• Third row: HUD (master toggle) / Actual speed / Max speed ‑10 / Max speed +10
• Fourth row: Font / Switch to Modern preset / Restore defaults / Save & Close
• Top‑right corner: Hide Buttons (hides all UI buttons for unobstructed viewing and positioning)

Note: When actual speed is disabled, speed stops increasing once it hits the max speed (pegs the meter). When enabled, the actual speed is always shown.

Note: Max speed is the speed at which the bar becomes full; the bar's fill ratio is speed / max speed.

Configuration File

The configuration file is located at .minecraft/config/speedhud-client.toml. Main fields:

[hud]
xOffset = 0        # Overall horizontal offset (positive = right)
yOffset = 0        # Overall vertical offset (positive = down)
scale = 1.0        # Overall scale
enabled = true     # HUD master toggle
showOnVehicle = true   # Show on vehicle
showOnElytra = true    # Show on elytra
globalHud = false      # Always show
maxSpeed = 200         # Max speed (full bar value)
showActualSpeed = false # Show actual speed
font = "minecraft"     # minecraft / modern

[hud.modules]          # Module visibility
gear = true
speed = true
unit = true
bar = true

[hud.elements.gear]    # D gear position and scale
x = 16
y = 40
scale = 1.0

[hud.elements.speed]   # Speed digits
x = 76
y = 34
scale = 1.0

[hud.elements.unit]    # km/h
x = 176
y = 46
scale = 1.0

[hud.elements.bar]     # Speed bar
x = 0
y = 58
scale = 1.0

Modern Font

The Modern font is a custom bitmap font (generated from Smiley Sans Oblique):

• Texture: assets/speedhud/textures/font/modern.png, 1152×192, with 18 characters per row, each cell 64×192;
• Character order: 0123456789DKM/Hkmh;
• Glyphs are aligned to the bottom of the cell (row 192);
• Definition file: assets/speedhud/font/modern.json (height 192 / ascent 7).

To replace the font, provide a PNG following the above specifications and replace assets/speedhud/textures/font/modern.png.

Building (Developers)

Environment: JDK 17+, Gradle 8.x.

gradlew build

The built artifact will be at build/libs/BetterSpeedHUD-1.1.jar.

Open Source License

This project is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details.

Author: @WYH827