RadarX
High-performance Spigot/Paper plugin providing PlaceholderAPI relative directional arrows (↑↗→) and 3D/2D distance tracking for players & coordinates…
⬇ Download on Modrinth🧭 RadarX
RadarX is a lightweight, highly-optimized Minecraft plugin for Spigot and Paper servers. It provides custom PlaceholderAPI placeholders to calculate real-time distances and relative 2D directional radar arrows (↑, ↗, →, ↘, ↓, ↙, ←, ↖) pointing toward players or coordinates relative to where the viewer is looking.
Perfect for minigames, Factions, Survival, and SMP servers to display objectives in scoreboards, action bars, title screens, or holograms!
✨ Features
- 🎯 Relative Directional Arrows: Displays a 2D arrow pointing toward a target player or coordinate relative to the player's current view (yaw).
- 📏 3D & 2D Distance Tracking: Calculate exact 3D distance or horizontal 2D distance (ignoring Y level).
- ⚡ Aggressive In-Memory Caching: Configurable cache time to ensure ZERO TPS impact, even when refreshed 20 times per second in scoreboards.
- 🌌 Cross-Dimensional Support: Custom indicator when the target is in a different dimension (e.g., Nether/End).
- ⚙️ Fully Configurable: Customize all arrow symbols, distance formats, offline messages, and cache durations.
📝 Placeholders
Placeholders can be used anywhere PlaceholderAPI is supported (Scoreboards, ActionBars, Holograms, Tab, Chat, etc.):
🏹 Directional Radar Arrows
| Placeholder | Description |
|---|---|
%radarx_arrow_xyz_<x>_<y>_<z>% |
Arrow pointing toward specific X, Y, Z coordinates |
%radarx_arrow_xz_<x>_<z>% |
Arrow pointing toward specific X, Z coordinates |
%radarx_arrow_player_<name>% |
Arrow pointing toward another online player |
📏 Distance Tracking
| Placeholder | Description |
|---|---|
%radarx_distance_xyz_<x>_<y>_<z>% |
3D distance (meters/blocks) to X, Y, Z |
%radarx_distance_xz_<x>_<z>% |
2D distance (meters/blocks) to X, Z |
%radarx_distance_player_<name>% |
3D distance to another online player |
⚙️ Configuration (config.yml)
format:
different_world: "N/A"
player_offline: "Offline"
distance_text: "%distance%m"
round_distance: true
optimization:
# Cache time in milliseconds (prevents TPS drop on fast scoreboard updates)
cache_time_ms: 500
arrows:
front: "↑"
front_right: "↗"
right: "→"
back_right: "↘"
back: "↓"
back_left: "↙"
left: "←"
front_left: "↖"
📦 Requirements & Installation
- Requires Minecraft 1.13+ (Spigot, Paper, Purpur, etc.).
- Requires PlaceholderAPI installed on your server.
- Drop RadarX.jar into your /plugins/ folder and restart your server.
- Customize plugins/RadarX/config.yml to fit your needs!
💻 Commands & Permissions
| Command | Description | Permission |
|---|---|---|
/radarx reload |
Reloads configuration | radarx.admin |
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.13, 1.13.1, 1.13.2
- 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.
- Ships as radarx-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 13 KB
- Download link checked 2 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.